Compassionate: “I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up for her. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she was a prostitute and all. The salesman probably just thought she was a regular girl when she bought it. It made me feel sad as hell—I don't know why exactly.” (Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Sallinger) This quote shows the compassionate tone of Catcher in the Rye as Holden expresses his realization that his prostitute was just like any other girl. A compassionate tone emphasizes a person’s understanding for someone’s distress. Here, Holden references his prostitute as a “regular girl” and how it made him feel sad for her knowing
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Frowning, he tried again.” (Lord of the Flies by William Golding) It is clear here that the boy William Golding describes here is having a hard time collecting his thoughts. The elusive tone describes something that is just that, difficult to grasp, just as this maze of thoughts was. As he writes, the boy was “lost” and had a “lack of expression” which was caused by his elusive thoughts.
Sardonic: “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.” (The Fault in Our Stars by John Green)
The tone in this, spoken by Hazel Grace Lancaster, is sardonic. Hazel was bitter towards life because everyone around her, including herself, was dying and it seemed too early. She uses her edicate to criticize time for leaving before it should, emphasizing the sardonic, bitter sarcasm with “screws” and “slut” (both which have negative connotations.)
Optimistic: “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.” (The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne …show more content…
Growing up as a jew in world war II, Anne chose to focus her “foundation” of thoughts on goodness and tranquility in hopes that after it was all over that would be what she was able to return to. She showed her extremely optimistic tone through her words like “in spite of everything” as she recognizes that the situation may not be ideal but that is okay. Anne was a high spirited young girl who is talking here about her future which she believes she will live to see.
Cynical: “The founders of a new colony, whatever human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.” (The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne) This piece written in the Scarlet Letter talks about the new society, or utopia, that was being established in new england and how the founders had no hopes for its citizens, requiring a jail. The tone here shows no trust in the “human virtue” as it expected people to commit crimes, making it a cynical piece full of questions on the goodness of people. If the founders weren’t cynical, they would have trust in its citizens that they wouldn’t require a
Frowning, he tried again.” (Lord of the Flies by William Golding) It is clear here that the boy William Golding describes here is having a hard time collecting his thoughts. The elusive tone describes something that is just that, difficult to grasp, just as this maze of thoughts was. As he writes, the boy was “lost” and had a “lack of expression” which was caused by his elusive thoughts.
Sardonic: “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.” (The Fault in Our Stars by John Green)
The tone in this, spoken by Hazel Grace Lancaster, is sardonic. Hazel was bitter towards life because everyone around her, including herself, was dying and it seemed too early. She uses her edicate to criticize time for leaving before it should, emphasizing the sardonic, bitter sarcasm with “screws” and “slut” (both which have negative connotations.)
Optimistic: “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.” (The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne …show more content…
Growing up as a jew in world war II, Anne chose to focus her “foundation” of thoughts on goodness and tranquility in hopes that after it was all over that would be what she was able to return to. She showed her extremely optimistic tone through her words like “in spite of everything” as she recognizes that the situation may not be ideal but that is okay. Anne was a high spirited young girl who is talking here about her future which she believes she will live to see.
Cynical: “The founders of a new colony, whatever human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.” (The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne) This piece written in the Scarlet Letter talks about the new society, or utopia, that was being established in new england and how the founders had no hopes for its citizens, requiring a jail. The tone here shows no trust in the “human virtue” as it expected people to commit crimes, making it a cynical piece full of questions on the goodness of people. If the founders weren’t cynical, they would have trust in its citizens that they wouldn’t require a