Tone

Do you ever think about a deeper meaning or purpose for a book, or what kind of mood the author was in at that moment? In the memoir “The Glass Castle,” by Jeannette Walls, the authors purpose and tone are very clear throughout the whole novel. The authors tone ranges from happy, to sad, to angry, and Walls also makes it very evident that the intended purpose of the novel is to share her story and help the reader to want to overcome similar hardships that they may be going through. Throughout…

After reading text A, and text B I noticed the tone in both of them were the same in some ways and different in others. In text A, the tone was all about how much a sixth grade student hated all the ads that had been up all around the school. Then in text B, the tone was about how the sixth grade teacher saw the bad things that the student saw, but also saw some good things about the ads in school. The tone of text A not only strengthens the argument, it also weakens it. One of the…

A writer's tone is very powerful in reshaping and structuring pieces of literature. It also is very strong at determining outcomes of pieces of literature and in a writer’s purpose in their story and effectiveness. Also, a writer can have so much different tones throughout a story depending on whom they are and that leads to the outcome that the writer is trying to get to. In "The Lottery”, the author of that book had many different tones displayed in the story that lead to the outcome of the…

that the tone of a book is important because it is the cause of emotions related to the novel in question. I feel Punching the Air uses tone to enhance their work by using it to create sympathy for the main character, anger for the lack of proper justice, and a more somber tone for the situation at hand. Overall, Punching the Air is a novel that has a strong grasp on tone which helps it create a more dynamic and interesting book for the reader. To start, I think that the novel uses tone to make…

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot) wrote the The Hollow Men which revolves around the idea of how war affects and devastates society. The overall tone of this poem is grim and foreboding. The theme of The Hollow Men expressed through imagery, similes, allusions, and metaphors is that war ruins men and society. Historically The Hollow Men was written in response to World War I and its effects on society. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a Harvard graduate and an extremely prolific writer for his time. The…

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.…

There are seven main components of this coffee maker: the gold tone filter, the water filter, the glass carafe lid, the glass carafe, the water tank, the seal, and the brew basket. (Figure 1). The machine also has a programmable clock. The main focus of this technical description is the gold tone filter. A gold tone filter is a reusable coffee filter. The purpose of the gold tone filter is to eliminate the use of paper filters. Gold tone filters provide a much richer taste coffee compared to…

scenes of universal ideas. In her lyrical poem, “Because I could not stop for Death,” a female narrator is nostalgic about the memory when “Death” came her way. Dickinson’s poetry technique, with the use of symbolism, punctuation, and structure and tone help strengthen the poems theme of death being a new beginning of another life and a new perpetuity for the soul. The structure of the poem and the use of punctuation helps accentuates the subject matter of death and afterlife. At first glance,…

RD2 Language, Usage, & Style Employing a strong portrayal and manipulation of diction, syntax, and tone, Kipling’s purpose for writing “A Death-Bed” was a combination of a personal and world conflict- World War I (Agamben, et al, Web). This poem was addressing a misfortune common to the people for whom he wrote, the suffering, the sacrifice, the injustice, and the difficulties everyone endured. “The war was forced on me by my foes. All that I sought was the right to live.” Lines (33-34). He…

Jonathan Swift cunningly tells of the tragedy that is taking place in Ireland. Swift’s descriptive storytelling and whimsical tone bring life to this satire. These two reasons are why I chose to use A Modest Proposal as my text to analyze. To have a better understanding of how to analyze this satire the literary element of my choosing will be style, tone, and irony. Style, tone, and irony each have specific distinct ways to allude the reader to what is actually going on but ever so slightly. On…