The Monkey's Paw, Tale-Tale Heart And The Open Window

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The reader's mood is affected by the author’s use in tone, mainly by word choice. The passage examples of these may include “The Monkey’s Paw”, “The Tale-Tale Heart”, and “The Open Window”. All of these passages have something in common, they all have scary tones in them. For instance, a line from the “Tale-Tale Heart” is “ I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture -- a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold.” As the reader reads this line they start to feel uneasy as the story goes on ,which forces the passage to feel uneasy during the whole passage which is what the author wants. The Monkey’s Paw is a great example for tone and foreshadow. For example, “ Herbert will have some more of his funny remarks, I expect, when he comes home.” This gives the reader a hint that something is going to happen to that character, but we still don’t know what it is. Until they tell us which gives the reader deep chills and sets the mood that the story wanted to create. …show more content…

The original "Out through that window, three years ago to a day, her husband and her two young brothers went off for their day's shooting. They never came back.” If someone tried to change the tone of this story they could say “Three years ago to a day, her husband and her two young brothers went off for their state away trip to pay for the mortgage”. That changes the tone from being eerie to neutral, which makes the reader not feel anything and would affect the ending of the story. Tone and Word Choices matter when the author creates a story so the reader could feel what the characters are feeling or feel what the tone is

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