Mood and theme both have large and connecting impacts on a story. In the accounts Up The Slide and A Glow In the Dark the the authors have similar plots and characters. They also both create similar ideas to help complete the mood and theme. There are a lot of similarities between the two, and even though the moods and theme might be different there are a lot of ways they show similarities, and how the authors connects them, but there are also some difference with the authors through it too. The theme of a story is a statement the author creates for the reader, typically sending a message or moral. The mood, however, is the emotion you get after reading the passage. For example: The mood could be sad and the theme could be that drugs can harm a person. The example of theme, though, can easily be found …show more content…
One way they did it similarly was helping the setting develop the mood and theme. For example, in Up The Slide it says words like, “Perilously, steep, and rocky.” All these words help provoke emotion such as ambition, and a “try hard” theme. In the second passage, A Glow In the Dark it describes the setting with words like, “Ghosts, diffused and rough.” All which create a mystery and a theme similar to it. Even though this is a way they are similar, there are differences between them. The author Jack London links the two with the author's actions, not him explaining it in the aftermath. “Time and time again, he ventured up the slide.” (London 317) He shows how it’s hopeful and trying leads to the best. However, the author Gary Paulsen has the author explain the reasoning after the ordeal is over, which conveys the mood and theme. “It was a stump. A six-foot-tall old rotten stump.” (Pawlson 324) This shows the author connects the mysterious mood with the theme that not everything is as it would appear, on the account that the author has already completed his
Literary devices are tools used by the author to help the reader understand a given literary work. Writers use different literary devices depending on their style and what they wish their reader to get out of their work. One important literary device that is essential for a successful literary work is theme. Theme is the general insight into life that the author shares with the reader. There are a number of different methods from which an author can choose to present his/her theme. One common strategy is to communicate the theme through the use of mood; the overall feeling or emotion conjured within the reader. In Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Cask of Amontillado," and in Saki's short story, "The Interlopers," the mood evoked within the reader is used to communicate the short story's overall theme.
Writers may use different techniques to get the same effect out of the audience. In the short story, "Old Mother Savage" by Guy Du Maupassant, a tragic story of a woman who losses everything is told. The story is scary in that it has an ending that one would not expect. Also, it can be looked at as a sad story because the mother seems to be sad throughout the entire story. At the end the only thing that she has to be satisfied about is that her murdering four young men can make other women feel how she felt when she found out about the death of her son. This story can be compared to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", when you talk about the strategies that both authors use to make the audience frightened. They both describe scenes in full detail to give the effect of disgust. However, Du Maupassant, makes the audience feel sorry for the mother in this story turning it into a tragedy instead of horror.
Theme is the subject of talk, a topic, or morals that the author is trying to get readers to comprehend. When reading an excerpt, the theme is not directly stated in the text, so you must dig deeper into the context to understand the matter trying to be portrayed. In both Angela's Ashes and The Street, we can distinguish a like theme of struggling through life’s complications. After reading the two different stories, we could select the theme from using character, events, and the setting.
...rves the way for the plot, the theme is the central idea around which a literary piece revolves. Without the theme the plot would be meaningless and there would be nothing for the readers to derive from the literary piece. Without the plot, the theme would be meaningless as there would be nowhere to consign the message the writer intends to give the reader. It can be said that the plot and theme are the two most important literary elements of a literary piece and are inter-dependant.
Theme is the underlying power beneath a story; the “force” that makes the whole experience worthwhile. Theme is “an idea or message that the writer wishes to convey” (Holt 874). A theme can be either stated or implied. A stated theme is a theme “that the other expresses directly in his work (protic.net); an implied theme is a theme “that is not directly stated in the work” (protic.net). As mentioned before, both of these stories have an implied theme, which now is revealed to mean that the author of the story insinuated it. Themes exist in all stories (verbal or written) and can be long, short, true or false. “Earth people will beat out any other intelligent life-form in any and all competitions” is a theme, but “good always beats evil” is one too. “Once upon a time . . .” stories have themes too, except they are more one-dimensional. For example,...
Characters actions is the first way the author conveys the theme of the story. In the story the girls piano teacher gives her a white umbrella that the girl really wanted. The girl was so happy that she told her that she wished she was her mother. But, in the car ride home she realized she loved he mother most and was grateful for her. This led to her
Mood helps in creating an atmosphere in a literary work by means of setting, theme, diction and tone. Throughout the book To kill a mockingbird the author wanted the mood to be sorrowful or vexed or just fret about how the people are acting because seeing how things were being treated or how people acted would be enough to make you feel angry or sad or worried for the people who were in the book. You always wanted to know what was going to come next or how something would end. Vex was a very prominent mood in this story and is definitely the most relevant.
Backpack Literature defines theme as “the general point or truth about human beings that may be drawn from” a story. Most novels do not have one single theme, but instead have many themes spread throughout. Some of the themes may be related but others can come from opposite ends of the spectrum. The Great Gatsby has several themes that are related such as greed, lust, and selfishness. One of the themes that stood out to me was that some people will never be fully satisfied. This is demonstrated by Jay Gatsby’s continuous us of illegal activities to make more money to impress Daisy, by Tom Buchanan’s affair with a mechanic’s wife even though he was already married, and by Jay Gatsby constantly throwing parties to try and win Daisy back after
The tone of a story is what an author wants. Depending on how the author feels is the tone and the author of Night was feeling many things.
Tone and mood are two essential parts to writing or telling a story. Mood is the the atmosphere, climate, or feeling of a text while tone is the attitude and or feelings of the person presenting the story. “Adam” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and “Why soldiers won't talk” by John Steinbeck have two different moods and tones. Mood and Tone affects the way that the reader feels while reading the story.Sometimes all it takes to state the mood and tone is one sentence. While the tones of both stories are vastly different, there are similarities in there too.
Mood is what the reader feels while reading a story or scene. It’s not the reader’s emotions, but the atmosphere of a scene or story. It’s what the reader reads or feels or notices. In both of these stories (For Esme-With Love and Squalor and Atticus) characters grows somewhere between the opening sentence and the final paragraph.
For instance the Night excerpt can be compared to the other text with the same theme which is ¨Speak up because you never know what might happen.¨ The excerpt Night was an Autobiography about Elie Wiesel and his experience during the Holocaust. IN the excerpt he is talking about Moishe the Beadle experience how they were took and put in a train made for animals and stopped at a destination and were forced to built trenches were the would be killed in. He was injured and left for dead and escaped. ¨How had he, Moishe the Beadle, been able to escape? By a miracle. He was wounded in the leg and left for dead.¨(Wiesel, 7). After he escaped he tried to warn everyone but they thought he wanted their pity and he was imagining things, ¨Some even insisted that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things.¨(Wiesel, 9). This was
The theme in a story is the message or big idea that the author is trying to reveal in his or her narrative. If there was no underlining theme in Sherman Alexie’s short story, “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” then readers would have no interest in reading the fictional story. Understanding the message that Alexie is trying to display to his readers can vary in many ways and depends on the reader 's understanding of the story. Strong themes that are presented in the fictional tale are man versus self conflict, family, and tribal identity. Victor is a tribal member that has had a rough life and has to deal with his father passing away. Not only does he have to come to terms with his father 's death, but he also has to face his
In every story, there are themes that point out the meaning of the story so it does not leave the reader hanging. So what is a theme? A theme is a fundamental and often universal idea explored in a literary work. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are three main themes, which commonly appear throughout the story. These themes will help tie any lose ends in the story, and help readers to understand the meaning of this story.
Some think that the theme is that bullying can hurt people. Yes that is true in life but not in this story. The theme isn’t that because only a few times in the story does Margoe fell hurt. The theme of jealousy is shown many more times than the other one. Jealousy plays a role throughout the story.Although the other theme is show in the story this theme is show more times and is more important.