Among The Hidden Analysis

In chapter 14 of the novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis the author uses carefully chosen words, phrases, setting and events to create a mood. The author is trying to create a feeling for the reader. In the beginning of the chapter the mood is calm and pleasant. Kenny slept in. Joetta gets ready for Sunday school.

The mood for this book is gloomy. The author wants us to feel gloomy and sad when Paul’s son won’t talk to him and cuts Paul off from his life. Paul’s son cuts Paul off by moving to Ecuador. Another example when the author makes us feel gloomy is when Paul leaves Adrienne. Paul leaves Adrienne to be with his son who he barely talks to. It makes the reader feel very sad because Paul really loved Adrienne and wanted to stay with her.

own part to making the story bigger and better. The moral of the story is to have

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For instance, Elie Wiesel uses carefully picked diction to give the reader a taste of what it is like to be there with him. He takes a phrase that could just be simple and transforms it into something very meaningful: "How can one not be sensitive to their plight?" (Wiesel 119). The use of the word plight delivers a more powerful

In the first chapter of the book, the mood was bland and not very clear. The first line on page three and first chapter states off with saying “My suffering left me sad and gloomy” (Martel, 5). This particular line set a tone for the entire book by describing the struggles he had to go through and especially how miserable it was for him.

In his article, Hidden Intellectualism, Graff argues that it is essential to educate students who do not realize their own intellectual talents for themselves and allow students who are street smart an advantage to put on their extracurricular skills in academic study. Graff explains that it is unfair to label students as having “book smarts or “street smart”, claiming that they may have one or the other as opposed to both contributing to a student’s success in the classroom. Graff states that schools are missing the chance to help “street smart” students succeed by taking away their nonacademic interests that could help them in school.

For example, in the middle of Poe’s short story the mood begins to be very depressing when you see how Roderick is slowly being consumed in the pain of Madeline’s sickness, which is similar to Hawethrone’s middle story mood when the reverend starts losing everyone around him because he shelters himself away from everyone. Although it isn’t very realistic to wear a veil to hide away sin, the meaning behind it relates to the feeling you get when you shelter yourself away from the world because of the problems you face. At the end of Poe’s story the mood takes a turn to create a pessimistic mood, it made me think the worst would happen when the sister randomly came up to the door while the narrator was reading the story. On the other hand when Reverend Hooper is dying at the end of, “Minister’s Black Veil,” it creates a frustrating mood when he doesn’t allow them to take off his veil while he’s in his dying bed, it makes you feel like you need to see what is behind the veil to be

In a story, the tone is often more important than any other kind of Author’s Craft. This is best seen in the short story The Veldt by Ray Bradbury The most prominent of all being Tone/Mood. All throughout the story are tiny clues and hints about the end fate of the parents, and the inner minds of their children. Through the story, they hear eerily familiar screams coming from the Nursery. While there is still tons of tone, there is many other kinds of Author’s Craft in the story. For instance, there is metaphors of how technology can take over your life and vivid imagery. Each detail is made in a creepy way, designed to bring chills up your spine. Every dialogue has a worried tone, from the parents fearful for their lives and children, to the ending words of the story. The story is absolutely saturated with tone.

Mood/ Tone/ Setting- The mood was straightforward, dark, and cold; it was not a pleasant book to read because the mood of the book changed your mood to a heartless feeling. The tone, was one of a science lab, it was hard to read. The setting was in the year of

For example, after a family has arrived on an unfamiliar environment through a rocket, n the text, it states, “The wind blew, whining. At any moment the Martian air might draw his soul from him, as marrow comes from a white bone.” This means that a party of humans had reached some environment that was unfamiliar because in the text we learn that the humans had emerged from a “rocket” that came from Earth and that they were currently in a “Martian” setting. Further into the text, when the family is told that they cannot return to their home, it states, “For a long time there was only the sound of the wind in the late afternoon. Alone, thought Bittering. Only a thousand of us here. No way back. No way. No way.” This text means that the humans who had approached Mars as their new home would be forever lost there, and this is because in the text we learn that “atom bombs hit New York,” causing all the “space rockets” to explode. This text also means that the silence that was roaming the family was due to the fact that they were speechless because in the text we learn how that their old and favored home was gone. This is important because it shows how the author chose to mention that the wind was whining, how the martian air was threatening, and only the sound of the wind because he wanted to lay out the mood of “foreboding” for the readers. Many of the decisions that the author made involving the mood were to include several minor details that add to the reader’s feelings and signal some upcoming events in the

Throughout the whole story, a very bleak mood is portrayed. The setting contributes to this gloominess. For example, the weather is awful. James, seeing how cold it was, said, “I seen the smoke coming out o’ the cow’s nose.” Later he says, “The sleet keep falling. Falling like rain now- plenty, plenty.” Once James turns up his collar to protect himself

List at least three examples of diction in the text that add to the overall tone. Explain how each word contributes to the emotional power of the piece, hospitality, the author uses this word to attempt to create a positive feeling in the story to show that they want hospitality inside the cyclopes home. Exquisite, the author uses this word to give a positive feeling in the story. . Savages, this word contributes to the emotional power of the piece, because it’s telling the reader what these people could be.

The 2016 historical film, Hidden Figures directed by Theodore Melfi which explores the themes of racism and sexism in America during the 1960’s. Melfi uses visual and verbal features of dialogue, costume and symbolism to display that sexism and racism is hard to abolish. The messages that Melfi conveys to the audience is that unequal pay and expected sexist uniforms are still present, but if we do something about it, it can be removed.

Throughout the story, the mood becomes more suspenseful. As Janet walks out of the strong spring storm and enters her cold damp house, she is overcome by feelings of isolation and loneliness. Her husband is not there; there are dead plants