figurative imagery. The tone of apprehensive is supported by the author’s use of connotation. The author writes that “my eyes burned” (115). Burned connotes the failure searing failure the protagonist encountered when he realized his dreams were not realistic (115). Burned conveys the failure the protagonist felt which supports the tone of apprehensive (115). The author uses the word blind end when describing the street at which the protagonists lives at (110). This suggests a connotation of blindness, ignorance, and denial towards what the protagonists feels (110). The protagonist feels like he is the only one who can realize how to change his life, which supports the tone of apprehensive (110). The use of the word chalice connotes to a knightlihood
