The stories “up the slide” and “Glow in the dark” are two stories that use details in the story to create emotion that allude to the theme. While they use the same style of making the mood hint at the theme, their moods are completely different as well as the themes they are writing about. Up the slide and Glow in the dark use similar writing forms of forming strong themes in the reader's mind by using the mood of the story to foreshadow the themes. In the book “up the slide” the main character is Clay Dilham who was a yukon pioneer that was looking for wood. He had found a tree that had recently fallen and was not yet taken by other people. He figured that “A swift ten minutes over the ice brought him to the place, and figuring ten minutes
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It is dark and when he tries to turn on his head lamp, it does not work. He decides that instead of staying and waiting until the sun comes up, that he would try to run the dog team without a lamp. He realized that he “could not tell when the rig was going to a rut or a puddle. It was cloudy and fairly warm--close to fifty--and had rained the night before. Without the moon or even starlight [he] had no idea where the puddles were until they splashed [him]” (Paulson 322). As they were bounding through the mess of branches and mud, the dogs suddenly stopped. The boy has to jam the brakes on the cart down to prevent it from running over the dogs. He suddenly sees a light that was 6 feet tall and had a eerie glow. The mood is set by the details of how the dogs reacted to the light. They howled a very specific “[song only sung when] an old dog had died in the kennel. It was a death song” (Paulson 323). The mood because of that sentence is changed to scary because the dog's behavior is hinting at death or a very unnerving experience about to happen. He finds out the the light was from a log that had sucked phosphorus up the roots and so it gave a glow of the daylight saved in the log. He only found this out later however, and that enforces the theme that sometimes the unknown can be an extremely tangible
It is dark and when he tries to turn on his head lamp, it does not work. He decides that instead of staying and waiting until the sun comes up, that he would try to run the dog team without a lamp. He realized that he “could not tell when the rig was going to a rut or a puddle. It was cloudy and fairly warm--close to fifty--and had rained the night before. Without the moon or even starlight [he] had no idea where the puddles were until they splashed [him]” (Paulson 322). As they were bounding through the mess of branches and mud, the dogs suddenly stopped. The boy has to jam the brakes on the cart down to prevent it from running over the dogs. He suddenly sees a light that was 6 feet tall and had a eerie glow. The mood is set by the details of how the dogs reacted to the light. They howled a very specific “[song only sung when] an old dog had died in the kennel. It was a death song” (Paulson 323). The mood because of that sentence is changed to scary because the dog's behavior is hinting at death or a very unnerving experience about to happen. He finds out the the light was from a log that had sucked phosphorus up the roots and so it gave a glow of the daylight saved in the log. He only found this out later however, and that enforces the theme that sometimes the unknown can be an extremely tangible