Tone – is the approach, perspective or attitude an author takes towards his or her characters and the development of the story. The author’s attitude towards his characters can be seen through words like respectful, purposeful, sentimental and many more attitudes. Readers can discover or determine the author’s feeling towards his or her characters through tone; thus greatly impacting the reader’s the likings for the characters of the story.
In the short story, A Worn Path, by Eudora Welty, the author uses a wide variety of tones to depict the story of an old Negro lady who makes many trips to Natchez, Mississippi in order to attain her grandson’s medicine. One of the story’s tones is humorous and it is greatly appreciated when Phoenix
In the short story, A Worn Path, by Eudora Welty, the author uses a wide variety of tones to depict the story of an old Negro lady who makes many trips to Natchez, Mississippi in order to attain her grandson’s medicine. One of the story’s tones is humorous and it is greatly appreciated when Phoenix