The Tone Of Federigo's Falcon

Love is a difficult tale to tell. It is the one thing on this planet that could either make or break a person. The story “Federigo’s Falcon” tells of a young man, Federigo, who falls into poverty while trying to win the heart of a girl named Monna. Monna and her son move away to their country estate near the farm in which Federigo lives because of her husband’s passing. Monna’s son becomes friends with Federigo and his prized falcon. Later on, the son becomes sick and requests that his mother bring the prized falcon to him because it will heal him. Monna visits Federigo with the attention of asking him for his falcon, but Federgio fed the falcon to her because he had no other food to offer. A few days later, her son dies and eventually Monna and …show more content…
She leaves Federigo’s house in grief, due to the fact that she is unable to cure her son. This depressing mood was displayed throughout most of the story. The author allows the tone to vary throughout the story allowing the audience to feel different emotions. Tone and mood are often confused by many people. If tone is the author's attitude toward a subject, then mood is the emotion of the readers evoked by the author. Federigo makes mistakes with his money, and pursues the wrong things. He ends up wasting all his money, and is forced to move on a farm with his falcon. “Federigo’s Falcon” begins with irony and trasitions to mourning after the killing of the falcon and the death of the son. Then The narrator says in the story,
“Now, as Federigo was spending far beyond his means and was taking nothing in, as easily happens he lost his wealth and became poor, with nothing but his little farm to his name (from whose revenues he lived very meagerly) and one falcon which was among the best in the world.” (2)
This situation makes the audience feel sorry for Federigo. At the end, there is a happy like ending when Federigo and Monna get