A Walk In The Woods Mood

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Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson and his friend Kartz took a long hike on a trail called The Appalachian Trail that is two thousand miles and it wasn’t easy. They traveled through really deep snow uphills and downhills. This experience was by Bill Bryson,who made the story called “A Walk in the Woods.” Bryson created an exciting and tense mood with vivid imagery and adventurous setting used in the story.

In this story Bryson uses imagery to see how the characters feel by using evidence citing and how he creates a tense mood. Bryson builds up the tense mood by describing what they are doing and how dangerous it is. Such as line fifty-six and fifty-seven that states “His footing went and I turned to him hugging a tree,feet skati

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