In the book Weasel,The mood changes throughout the book.When a series amount of chains happen in the story.Every mood change causes other actions happen which cause the mood swings or changes.The mood changes would be Worried,Suspicious,and Sad. The overall mood of the first seven chapters of Weasel is suspenseful. In the story, In the story,Nathan and Molly meet a stranger (Ezra) and he turns out to have their mamas locket.Molly and Nathan don’t know who this person is yet,so they get anxious because this stranger has their dead mother's locket that their papa only has that locket. In addition, Nathan, Molly, and Ezra see Weasel in the forest. Nathan had heard stories about Weasel being a killer, and seeing him makes Nathan unsure about
Suspense is the feeling of uncertainty or excitement, in waiting for an outcome or decision. Edgar Allan Poe uses suspense in his story “Masque of the Red Death” by using objects and great descriptive detail. Poe’s story is about a prince that tries to escape from the inevitable. He tries to lock himself away from the ‘red death’ and has a masquerade ball that doesn’t end happily. Prince and all of his guests die inside or around the seventh apartment room. The seventh room is preceded by six colored rooms which are meant to symbolize either the stages of life, or the seven sins. Inside the last room there are black velvet tapestries that hang all over the ceiling and down the walls. The window panes are a deep blood red color which gives the room an unwelcoming atmosphere. On the western wall, there is a gigantic clock of a deep black wood. Inside it has a pendulum that swings back and forth with a dull monotonous clang. When the minute hand marks a new hour, there is a clear, loud, deep sound, which can be heard from far away. Although it can give off an eerie feeling, the great eb...
Throughout the novel the characters are put in these situations which force them to obtain information about the people they thought they knew. The center of finding out who everyone is was brought into play through the death of Marie. The story is told by David, only twelve years old, who sees his family an community in a different light for who they truly are under there cover. By doing his own little investigations, often times eavesdropping, David saw through the lies, secures and betrayals to find the truth.
Also if I look at the genre of the story, suspense is built at the
When Nathan arrived at the Hospital, he met Elizabeth and found she had not eaten, had anything to drink, or spoken since her arrival. He also noticed she had numerous bruises and scars in areas known for suicide attempts. When she was a young girl she watched her father, Jon Doe, from the previous robbery brutally murdered in a subway. The other men, who helped him commit the crime found him, beat him and threw him in front of a subway train. The men who did this were arrested and tried, but were now out of prison and looking for her. This is why she stayed in the hospitals because she felt safe. He tried to speak to her and with no replies he began to walk out when she said, “You want what they want”, he turned and asked her what she meant. She repeated herself and then sang, “I’ll never tell”. With this Nathan grew curious as to who “they” were.
Furthermore, the writer also develops a suspenseful mood by creating a calm and peaceful attitude of the main character in a strange and cryptic setting. The purpose of the diction that the author uses is to develop an understanding of the main character’s attitude. Moreover, it gives the readers the opportunity to feel the same emotions and feelings of the characters, as if they were in there shoes. As a final point, the writer includes a specific tone in order to make the readers develop a feeling towards the main character such as feeling sincere towards a character, or rather despising them.
The Golden Compass contains many mood changes. For example, one of the moods included is intense. When Lyra launches an escape plan and the children flee from the Gobblers, the story states,” The Tartars ran to stand in a line across the entrance to the avenue of lights, their daemons beside them as disciplined and drilled as they were. In another minuet, there would be a second line because more and more of them were coming and more behind them ..............She remembered hurling a handful of clay at a brick burner boy bearing down on her. He’d stopped to claw the stuff out of his eyes, and then townies leaped on him…..”(253). As a result, the mini war...
There are many theories today the support the idea of animals having emotions. I personally believe that ducks have emotions. Many of the class readings such as “Yes, Animals Have Feelings” by Jonathan Balcombe, and Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin support the theory of animals having emotions. My definition of emotion is a state of mind that is based off internal or external circumstances. I started observing ducks to help support my idea the ducks have emotions. By using the readings and combining it with my observations I had a case for ducks having emotions. I am observing changes in behavior or actions that show emotions such as happiness, trust and caring. The article ‘Yes, Animals Have Feelings” by Jonathan Balcombe discusses
The mood that occurred most in the book is vexing because the way people acted would make you vexed. For example when the jury had said tom robinson was guilty everyone knew he was innocent but he was still guilty so that would make you feel vexed. “A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson.”(Lee 282) That is one of many examples in the book where things make you extremely mad and it is usually racism that makes you vexed because it happens all throughout ...
While reading this story, the reader may find a few things of interest. The type of language Craver put into the story gives the reader more information about the mood. The reader can infer that the story has been set in a gloomy atmosphere because of the
“Do animals have emotions?” When animal lovers and pet owners are asked this question, the answer is a quick and definite, “Yes!” For others, the answer isn 't so simple. Many of the researchers that had reservations, spent their time wondering what dogs (and other animals) were capable of feeling, or if they were capable of feeling anything at all. Since these researchers were unable to put feelings under a microscope, their research lead no where, and they remained skeptics. To the contrary,Marc Bekoff, author of several books including The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy and Why They Matter, begins his research three decades ago with the question, “What does it feel like to be a
Noah Webster, author of Webster’s Dictionary, defines mood as the “temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling“ and “a morbid or fantastic state of mind.” E. L. Thorndike and Clarence L. Barnhart, authors of Scott, Foresman Advanced Dictionary, define mood as “the overall atmosphere or prevailing emotional aura of a work.” Shakespeare’s Macbeth, especially the pivotal and ominous second act, exemplifies both denotations of mood. The act has an “overall atmosphere,” even though the mood shifts, while this mood places a sense of cliff-hanging anxiety at the beginning, an ambiance of hysterics towards the middle, a feeling of tragic realization directly following, and an unsure aura of occult extractions. Shakespeare cleverly uses six key elements to further shape and add to the mood: the characters, the imagery, the setting, the sounds, the characters’ actions, and the characters’ dialogue.
In “Living Like Weasels,” by Annie Dillard explains her experience with a weasel and why we should live like one. She begins, describing the weasel nature saying that they sleep in an underground den, with his tail draped over his nose. The weasel stalks rabbits, mice, muskrats, and birds. Also, weasels live off instinct, biting his prey at the neck splitting the jugular vein or crunching on the brain at the base of the prey skull not letting go. While Dillard was at a place called Hollins Ponds where she goes to escape reality she comes across this weasel that tapped into her thoughts as she did the same. Then she describes this moment as two lovers looking at each other, or deadly enemies that met unexpectedly on an path. Finally, from her experience with a weasel she believes that we all should live like one.
The main methods used to create suspense in both the stories involve the use of supernatural phenomena’s. The creating of suspense in both the stories start from the beginning, the titles. As the stories progress the use of first person narrative help the authors expand the amounts of suspense created throughout the stories. The settings of both the stories play a significant part in the building up of suspense. Both the authors, Charles Dickens and Conan Doyle, are famous authors who have written many books with great quantities of suspense, they know what they are doing and they have done it well, especially well in these short stories.
... the cardinal hanging from above. Vittoria gets kidnaped and Olvetta dies. Now Langdon is trapped inside with the Illuminatus, who has a gun, and he starts crawling around the pues trying to escape. This action creates suspense because the reader wants to know what will happen. As the scene progresses more suspense is developed in the reader because of the desire to know what will happen next.
Finally this project ends with a personal comment on the third chapter as well as on the whole book.