The mood in a novel is the overall feeling, sense or atmosphere of a scene. To have such moods properly produced and portrayed to the reader by 3 writing techniques. In the excerpt from the novel, Friday Night Lights, the author, H. G. Bissinger personally puts to light Mike Winchell, the high school star quarterback on the day of the football game. Bissinger weaves into the excerpt setting, word choice, and imagery to provide the reader typically a sense of intensity and gloominess when reading these scenes. For starters, Bissenger is able to input settings to make an atmosphere depressing and lonely. That morning before Mike went to school, the “shabby”, “silent”, “darkness” setting. This gives them a sense of loneliness and is somewhat depressing. …show more content…
Furthermore, Pep rallies are typically generalized as exciting things. So when the text says “Once he got to school he was going to go to the pep-rally” it overall communicates that he was ambitious about attending the pep-rally. Except it wasn't actually what Bissenger had written instead, it was (paragraph 3) “Once he got to school he had to go to the pep rally,” This slight difference “had to” instead of “going to” is what completely shifts the reader's understanding of what the pep rally is. The one word difference of “had” associates the reader's understanding of Michael viewing it as a chore. On the other hand, more extreme word choices like similes, allusions and fancy words are placed after the first example is another good example of the off-putting feeling about the pep rally the reader experiences from Mike. This is where it is mentioned of how the balloons with his face on them had a (paragraph 3) “delicate sadness as haunting as Diane Arbus” This is a very different form of word choice with a simile and allusion, but it expresses a very specific type of emotion he gets when he sees the balloons which sets the whole scene in that paragraph to feel the same
Nelson Johnson, author of “Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City”, is a native of Hammonton, New Jersey. Johnson graduated Villanova Law School in 1974, after receiving his Bachelor’s degree in 1970 from St John’s University in New York, majoring in political science. Johnson began his political career in 1975: being elected to Atlantic County’s Board of Chosen Freeholders, where he served until 1985. Johnson had a successful private practice culminating in appointment to be a Superior Court Judge in 2005. It is interesting to note that Gromley, who nominated Johnson to Superior Court, is featured in his book. Of further interest is that Johnson served on Atlantic City’s Planning Board at the conception of casinos.
It is often informative as well as interesting to analyze the differences and the similarities between a book and that books movie adaption. This is especially true when the book is based on actual events due to the fact that it allows one to get a real sense of how film makers can manipulate certain elements to make the story more entertaining. It is obvious that the author of Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger, and the director of the movie, Peter Berg, were attempting to portray Boobie and the other characters involved in the most realistic way. However, the film version of Friday Night Lights has distinctly different portrayals of Boobie’s actions as well as a number of similarities in comparison to the book version.
Many scenes involved ironic contrasts between the tone and the surroundings. On several occasions the background music was cheerful and upbeat while the physical settings and scenery were terribly dark, dreary and depressing. One good example of this is the scene where Andy was helping the guards with their taxes. There was upbeat and cheerful music but the room and the surroundings were dark and gloomy. This hint of happiness represents how Andy’s hope ...
H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights brings to mind the cold, autumn nights of 1988 where a town, just like any other rural town in America, was brought together in such a raw and emotional way. From the rise and fall of Boobie Miles to the push for the playoffs, it is clear that 1988 Odessa was swept up in the glory of football to replace the grandeur of the 1950s, which seemed to deteriorate throughout that hectic decade. While a modern reader may view Bissinger’s masterpiece as a tale from a dated and faraway place, several factors have kept it in the public’s eye. What is it about Friday Night Lights that still resonates today? The answer can still be found in the same rural towns of America. Though it may seem incredible, Texas is still football crazy, and it may be fairly concluded that emotions have only slightly receded from the obsession they once held towards high school football. People’s inability to analyze themselves, the impact a community can have on younger generations, and the way priorities can easily be warped all struck me as subjects that have stayed true in Texas culture over the past 26 years. I will be discussing these topics throughout this dissection of Friday Night Lights.
“‘Athletics last for such a short period of time. It ends for people. But while it lasts, it creates this make-believe world where normal rules don’t apply. We build this false atmosphere. When it’s over and the harsh reality sets in, that’s the real joke we play on people’” (Bissinger xiv). “Friday Night Lights” shows the darker side of high school football. Players are taught to play games to win, and thats all that matters. Football players are put under a tremendous amount of pressure, almost enough to be considered unfair. Even though football is a “team sport”, pressure on individual players is unnecessary. Some players have the burden of the team, the city, their family, and their future, resting on their shoulders. These players are put under pressure that is physically and emotionally damaging, not to mention future ruining.
H.G.Bissinger, through his novel Friday Night Lights, creates an appeal to pathos to persuade readers to care about his opinion that the emphasis placed on High School Football has a dangerous impact on the lives of students. To support his opinion, Bissinger employs methods and techniques which help create an appeal to pathos. Pathos is an appeal which heavily relates to a reader’s emotion on various different aspects. To establish the fundamental problem Odessa, Texas has when it comes to football, Bissinger shows the religious like attitude the game is conceived with. By adding testimonies, Bissinger ties in emotion while strengthening his argument. Lastly, Bissinger uses personal stories
Mood is how the audience feels about a piece of literature. This differs from tone because tone is the author’s mood about a piece of literature. Suspense and mood are often closely connected because how you feel about a text can help create suspense. If you feel tense or nervous about something that will add to the suspense already there; however, if you feel devastated or depressed about something, it may not add the same amount of suspense as it could’ve if it made you feel tense or nervous. An example of mood in Cujo is when Stephen King wrote, “She saw the dog’s tail and the top of its broad back over the hood of the Pinto. It was going around to Tad’s side of the car -- And Tad’s window wasn’t shut.” The mood of this piece of text evidence is nervous and maybe a little bit scared of what will happen to Tad. The mood in this part of the excerpt adds to the suspense because the suspense of this excerpt is already making you feel anxious, and the mood makes the suspense stronger. Another example of mood in Cujo is when Donna first heard Cujo growl. It had seemed directionless to her. It was nowhere and everywhere at the same time. She finally figured out that it came from the garage. The mood here would be nightmarish and a little nervous. This is because the reader would read the paragraph and think that it was something out of a nightmare, and they would be nervous for Donna because they wouldn’t want her getting hurt. The mood
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.
Second, what is the mood of this story trying to portray with the setting. The setting c...
in the book is very dark, and it helps set the awful mood for the rest
Steinbeck creates the serene, monotonous, and cozy feeling with his writing style; he uses a combination of elaborate descriptions and diverse syntax when describing a setting to create moods and feelings. The way that sentences are structured and the ways that things are described are the tools an author uses to create a mood or feeling.
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.
Setting - Identify the physical (when/where) settings of the book. How do these settings affect the moods or emotions of the characters?
The short story, “Unlighted Lamps,” by author Sherwood Anderson is about a relationship between a father and his daughter. Their relationship is a stressful one because neither of them talk to each other, nor show their emotions. Throughout the story, you find out why their relationship is the way that it is, and why it is hard for her father to talk to her. The unlighted lamps in the story represent flashbacks of memories wherever light dances across something.
My dreams shattered in front of my eyes like a million pieces of broken glass and all I could do was stare into the endless abyss knowing escape was just a far fetched fantasy. When darkness fell and time came to escape to a wonderland deep within my consciousness, to which only I had the key, the devils would break in and imprison me in my mind. As a child I would sit alone every night in the dark praying to the angels for things to change, for life to get better but in the end I was speaking to the walls. The endless nights of crying myself to sleep and the angels weren’t there to tell me things would be okay, maybe they knew that my life would be a rocky road to hell. I cried, prayed and kept going for years and years, but everything remained