In Chekhov's "The Bet," the banker and the lawyer both learn the futility of their wager, as they have found that life and its conditions differ greatly from their more youthful perceptions. The lawyer learns that his sweeping statement that life on any terms is better than death...
The Tone is achieved through word choice (diction), sentence construction and word order (syntax), and by what the viewpoint character focuses on. The Tone is created or altered by the way the viewpoint character/narrator treats the story problem and other characters, and by the way, he responds to the events surrounding him.
Answer:
a. to avoid loss of documents
b.graduate documents, certificate
The introductory paragraph