How Does Bill Bryson Use Mood In A Walk In The Woods

In the passage A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson uses the literary element of mood in lines 190-210 to make the reader feel sympathetic for the characters and also to establish imagery. The first way that Bryson uses a mood with imagery is when he talked about how the snow made things in the wilderness look peaceful. For example Bryson wrote “Every tree wore a thick cloak of white, every stump and boulder a jaunty snow cap, and there was that perfect, immense stillness…”(line 191-192). This quote shows how Bryson establishes mood because when readers read it they can image how perfect the snow looks when it has first fallen.
The second instance that Bryson uses a sympathetic mood was when he was talking about all the snow and how it affected

him. For example Bryson wrote “Even in shelter areas, under an umbrella of conifers the snow was nearly knee deep and tedious to churn through”(line 191-192). This example shows how Bryson establishes mood because it makes us feel sympathetic for the characters. The third place that Bryson uses a sympathetic mood was when he explained how difficult it was for him to travel through the snow. For example Bryson wrote “‘I didn't know how hard it would be to walk seven miles through deep snow and had no confidence that the campground would be open this early in the year’”(line 204-206). This example shows how Bryson establishes mood because the readers feel bad for the characters that are stuck in a snowstorm having to trudge through deep snow. Ultimately all of these evidences show how Bill Bryson set the mood in his story A Walk in the Woods. The evidences show reasons why we may feel sympathetic at some points and how the imagery helps the reader better understand the mood.