At the beginning of chapter 9, in the novel “A Long Walk To Water” the author’s tone when walking in a desert is simply revealed to be rejection. Firstly, the author quotes of the text that “Each minute of walking in that arid heat felt like an hour,” in which it means that it felt you’re boiling, and also felt like you’re striding an hour when walking in a desert. This shows, that the author is despising the “walking for an hour” in a desert, and the heat waves that carry on to it. Secondly, the author says that “Even breathing became an effort” in which it means, that it felt hard to breathe, due to extremely high temperature, when walking in a desert. This proves, that the author is telling, the readers (in a more imagery way), that the
