What is tone again?
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1. Locate a passage in pages 89-109 that you feel conveys one of the following tones.
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abhorring
acerbic
apathetic
apprehensive
desolate
despairing
desperate
detached
diabolic
disappointed
doubtful
enraged
evasive
melancholic
morose
suspenseful
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fatalistic
fearful
forceful
foreboding
frantic
frightened
frustrated
furious
gloomy
grave
grim
tense
terrifying
threatening
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harsh
hopeless
anxious
barren
cold
confining
discontented
distressed
drained
dreary
futile
haunting
hostile
insidious
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2. Copy the passage in the comment box and explain the tone of the passage in complete sentences. Follow the following format:
ESTABLISH CONTEXT OF THE PASSAGE. Explain what is happening in the story when your passage appears.
BLEND THE QUOTE: Work the quote into your own writing.
IDENTIFY THE TONE OF THE PASSAGE.
EXPLAIN SPECIFIC WORDS AND PHRASES FROM THE PASSAGE THAT CONVEY THE TONE.
The boy and the father were standing in the afternoon just fumbling through their thoughts. While doing this they noticed things like, "They stood watching the pale gray flakes sift down out of the sullen murk." (93) The tone of this is almost absent mindedness and shows how barren the world is now. Words like gray, sullen, and pale are what convey this tone.
ReplyDeleteAs the man and the boy travel they come across a large house. While in one of the rooms in the house the text says "The ashes were cold. Some blackened pots stood about. He squatted on his heels and picked one up and smelled it and put it back. He stood and looked out the window. Gray trampled grass. Gray snow.". I think the tone conveyed in this passage is morose. The text makes the house they have discovered is uninviting and scary.
ReplyDeleteDuring the book the man is describing the boy and his "sunken cheeks streaked with black" (96). This convey's a hopeless tone, the man is not sure if the boy and going to make it and he himself says "he didn't think the boy could travel much more"(96). It starts to be the first signs of doubt the man has in the boy.
ReplyDeleteThe boy and the father are in this house and they think something is in this room, so they decide to check it out and they see... "Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. On the mattress law a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. The smell was hideous." The tone of this passage is suspenseful and fearful, it is suspenseful because they are going down the stairs to see whats down there, and it is fearful because if you were to see that you would freak out and its scary to think that they were locked down there. "all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands." This shows that the people are scared of who the people are that are keeping them there, so the boy and the father have to be scared because they don't want to end up like the other people.
ReplyDeleteWhen this passage happens the man and the boy are walking by a wall in the remains of an orchard and then they see" a frieze of human heads, all faced alike, dried and caved with their taut grins and shrunken eyes"(90) The tone for the author created for this passage is Grim. He use words like dried,caved, and taught grins to create a Image of a grim scene that would of have unfolded here.
ReplyDelete"The trees in their ordered rows gnarled and black and fallen limbs thick on the ground."(90) In the story they are about to come across a very scarring scene. The passage puts an image in the readers head that is very depressing, and hopeless. The tone this passage conveys is very dreary. Dreary is conveyed clearly when the passage uses words such as "gnarled," "fallen limbs," and "black." Each of these words have a gloomy, depressing connotation.
ReplyDelete"What they came to was a cedar wood, the trees dead and black but still enough to hold the snow." This line is really dreary, gloomy, and grave how they describe the trees in the whole forest and dark and dead, it seems scary and creepy.
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ReplyDeleteHe started down the rough wooden steps. He ducked his head and then flicked the lighter and swung the flame out over the darkness like an offering. Coldness and Damp. An ungodly stench.
ReplyDeleteThe boy and the father are going down the stairs where the father had just opened the padlock to. And while they are going down the stairs, it was cold and damp, with an "ungodly stench" in the room. In the passage the author portrays the tone dreary when he uses the words "Coldness and Damp" along with "An ungodly stench." Even after the quote and the author goes into depth on whats in the room that portraying the dreary feeling with the bodies.
" He crouched and stepped down again and held out the light. Huddled against the back wall were the naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. on the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. The smell was hideous. Jesus, he whispered. Then one by one they turned and blinked in the pitiful light. Help us, they whispered. Please help us. Christ, he said. Oh Christ. He turned and grabbed the boy. Hurry, he said. Hurry" (110).
ReplyDeleteThe authors tone is Terrifying in this passage because he shows what the boy and the man see how cruel this world has really become. They boy has never seen anything so scary in his life like that and the boy wishes he can help the people but they get to close to the man and the boy. One tried to attack them so its more like a burden image for both the man and the boy because its a scared memory that will follow them for a long time.
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DeleteIn The Road the man and the boy hide from some bad guys that passed in the middle of the night and came back for them in the morning. “No smoke from the dead fire. Nothing to be seen of the cart. He wallowed into the ground and lay watching across his forearm. An army in tennis shoes, tramping. Carrying three-foot lengths of pipe with leather wrappings. Lanyards at the wrist. some of the pipes were threaded through with lengths of chain fitted at their ends with every manner of bludgeon. They clanked past, marching with swaying gait like wind-up toys. Bearded, their breath smoking through their masks.” (91). This passage’s tone is grave however it also shows that the men have a bit of melancholy about them “swaying gait like wind-up toys”.
ReplyDelete" They stood watching the pale gray flakes sift down out of the sullen murk. They trudged on. A frail slush forming over the dark surface of the road." (93) In this passage McCarthy creates a barren tone. For example he uses phrases such as "pale gray flakes" and "dark surface of the road" Both of these phrases give the reader a clear image of the barren landscape that the other is writing about.
ReplyDelete"He'd come to see a message in each such late history, a message and a warning, and so this tableau of the slain and the devoured did prove to be. He woke in the morning and turned over in the blanket and looked back down the road through the trees the way they'd come in time to see the marchers appear four abreast" (91). In this passage the tone that the author uses is anxious. Words describing this tone are “warning” and “slain”. These words create that anxious feeling for some readers which allows them to feel what the characters feel.
ReplyDeleteThe boy and his father are going through a house that they found while on the road. They come across a door on the floor of one of the rooms. The father is desperate to open the hatch, however, the son is very desperate to make him stop. The son gets scared and starts begging his father, saying “Papa...we should go papa..” And then “The boy pulled at his hand. He was almost in tears.” (108). The son is crying and trying to get his father to go away. He seems to have a gut feeling that’s telling him this is going to be bad, but the father won’t listen. The tone of this passage is very frantic, because the reader is not sure what is going to happen, and they are basically leaning off their seats to find out what’s going to happen. The author wants the reader to be excited about what will happen, so they are almost frantic to read on. The way that the son is begging his father to stop makes the tone.
ReplyDelete"Sparks rose and dimmed and died in the eternal blackness". (96) In this passage the tone shows how barren this land they are living in is. Words like blackness show us how dark and gloomy the environment is. The tone the author sets shows the audience the significance of the situation the man and boy are in.
ReplyDeleteThe man and the boy were walking past an orchard, "the trees in their ordered rows gnarled and black and the fallen limbs thick on the ground. He stopped and looked across the fields." (90) In this passage the author, Cormac McCarthy creates a barren, detached tone. The words that show this are "gnarled" and "fallen". These words create a dark feeling, that no one has been there in a while.
ReplyDeleteThe boy and the man make their way through the forest and continue their harsh journey, and but all of a sudden "the whump of falling trees and the low boom of the loads of snow exploding on the ground set the woods to shuddering." (97) In this segment, words such as "frantic" and "terrifying" set the tone because it paints a picture in the readers mind that makes them feel hopeless and scared, hoping for the man and the boy to take cover.
ReplyDeleteThe boy sleeps and the man lies awake, keeping them warm and safe. "He looked at the boy's face sleeping in the orange light. The sunken cheeks streaked with black. He fought back the rage. Useless. He didn't think the boy could travel much more." The tone shown in this text is Hopelessness. The words that show the tone are sunken, useless, and rage. Mccarthy created this tone to show how desperate the father is to get out and how much of a burden the boy is on him.
ReplyDelete"In the afternoon it started snowing again. They stood watching the pale gray flakes sift down out of the sullen murk." (93) The tone of this passage is very gloomy. McCarthy uses the words such as "gray" and "pale", expressing the cold and crisp air that the father and son are surviving in.
ReplyDelete"He was half asleep when he heard a crashing in the woods. Then another. He sat up. The fire was down to scattered flames among the embers." (96) This passage in The Road convey's a very frightened tone, the man is always listening and even if he hears a twig snap he get scared and wants to move on.
ReplyDeleteThe boy and man are sleeping and the man wakes to " a crashing in the woods." he rushes to wake up the boy "it's all right." "we need to hurry" (97) in this passage the author macCharthy creates a very anxious tone though his use of the words hurry, crashing. These words make a very clear image that the father is anxious to get out of there so they don't get a tree fallen on them. And with this you as the reader can better understand what the father is feeling.
ReplyDeleteAs the boy and the man were in the building trying to open something. "Back in the house he chipped at the wood around the haspstaple and finally jammed the blade under the staple and pried it up." In this passage McCarthy creates a desperate tone. The man is desperate for anything they can find that will help them survive. words and phrases like "chopped", "jammed", and "pried" help the reader picture images in their mind of how desperate they are to find things to help them survive
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ReplyDeleteAs the boy and the man travel down the road, at this point the are desperate for the one thing they are losing, hope. When the man saw, “ Shapes of dried blood in the stubbled grass and grey coils of viscera where the slain had been field -dressedand hauled away. The wall beyond held a frieze of human heads, all faced alike, dried and carved with their taunt grins and shrunken eyes.” (pg. 90) In this passage the man had “seen this before.”(pg 90) , he knows the blood thirst that others survivors crave; which McCarthy, in this passage makes everything hopeless for the man and the boy. A boy so young seeing, “shrunken eyes” and “human heads” of those murdered for supplies and and whatever else they had, it seems like all survivors are doing it now a days.
ReplyDeleteIt started to snow again on the road and they "stood watching the pale gray flakes sift down out the sullen murk." The tone of this passage is one that conveys the emotion behind the movement behind the snowflakes and how something so sacred as a child is nothing but a depression causer now. Words such as pale, gray, sift set the tone as something that is gloomy and depressing. The purpose behind McCarthy writing this passage is to let you know how they're feeling, and how gloomy and sullen this passage really is.
ReplyDelete“The fire was little more than coals and it gave no light and the wood was nearly gone and the trees were falling all about them in the blackness.” (97) In this passage, the author's tone is gloomy. The author makes me feel this way by the word choice he uses like, “blackness” and “falling” with phrases like, “no light” and “fire was little more than coals.” These are words and phrases that conveyed the word gloomy.
ReplyDelete"They wore gold rings in their leather ears and in the wind their sparse and ratty hair twisted about on their skulls. The teeth in their sockets like dental molds, the crude tattoos etched in some homebrewed woad faded in the beggared sunlight." A word that conveys this passage is threating because the bad guys are terrifying and scary because they could hurt the man and the boy. The author uses this passage to describe that bad guys because he wants the reader to picture what the bad guys look like.
ReplyDeleteThe boy and the father were hiking while walking next to a stone wall to guide them through the fields. They noticed something on the ground, "shapes of dried blood in the stubble grass and gray coils of viscera where the slain had been field-dressed and hauled away." (90) The author, Cormac McCarthy uses the tone dreary to describe the the passage by using words like "slain", "field-dressed" and "hauled away". Those words make the scene more mysterious of what exactly happened there.
ReplyDeleteThey’d had no food and little sleep in five days and in this condition on the outskirts of a small town they came upon a once grand house sited on a rise above the road. The boy stood there holding his hand, “The boy clung to him as they climbed the steps. One of the windows was slightly open and a cord ran down from it and across the porch to vanish in the grass.” (106). The tone of this passage is tense because the boy doesn't know if they should go in, there might be someone already in there that he doesn’t want to come across. Words like vanish, slightly open, clung to help tell what the tone of this passage is.
ReplyDeleteThe road is great for describing and capturing pictures and scenes. When the man and his son are hiking and find a house they describe the remains as "Ruststed", "crumpled" and "scavenged" . It really helps portray a scene of the sad abandoned building that was waiting to be discovered.
ReplyDeleteWhen the man was thinking about the birds, he was thinking about the names of them, and how they were almost lost along with their existence, "The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality."(89) the tone of this is of lost hope, or forgetfulness, and shorn and referents are used to convey how the names of the birds were stolen from their existence.
ReplyDeleteAn army in tennis shoes, trampling. Carrying three-foot lengths of pipe with leather wrappings. lanyards at the wrist. Some of the pipes were threaded thrpugh with lengths of chain fitted at their ends with every manner of bludgean.They clanked past, marching with swaying gait like wind-up toys. bearded,their breath smoking through thair masks.shh he said shh. the phalanx following carried spears or lances tasseled with ribbons, the long blades hammered out of trucksprings in some crude forge up-country. the boy lay with his face in his arms, tarrified, they passed two hundred feet away , the ground shuddering lightly.tramping. behind them come wagons drawn by slaves in harness and piled with goods of war after that the women, perhaps a dozen in number, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites illclothed against the cold and fitted in dog collars and yoked each to each. all passed on. They lay listening. This set,s a vary dark and tarrafying tone. infront of the boy and the man are this army marching with slaves and catamites (i looked it up) and the addition of 2 more to thare ranks would be easy for these battle worn solgers. and the aouther dosent shy from saying thare slaves and catammites he says it flat out to show the fear that must be held bye the father and the boy if thay make a single rong move and are fond thay are ether dead or inslaved.
ReplyDeleteThe man and the boy are traveling and they come across a house when they are in one of the rooms it says, "The ashes were cold. Some blackened pots stood about. He squatted on his heels and picked one up and smelled it and put it back. He stood and looked out the window. Gray trampled grass. Gray snow."(108). I think the tone of the passage is moors because they discovered this scary house.
ReplyDelete"He looked back at the boy. Standing by the cart in the wind. He looked at the dry grass where it moved and at the dark and twisted trees in their rows. A few shreds of clothing blown against the wall everything gray in the ash." I think that this passage convey a dark, lonely and abandon tone. Some specific words that set this tone are dry, dark, twisted, shreds, everything gray.
ReplyDeleteThe man and the boy are approaching a big house with, "An ancient birds nest lodged in the dark wicker of it" (Pg. 106). The author creates an abandoned tone. By choosing the words lodged and dark, he creates the tone that the birdhouse was just stuck in the tree instead of saying the birdhouse was placed in the tree, it makes the birdhouse seem abandoned. He uses this tone because the man and the boy are walking up to an abandoned house, and everything is dead.
ReplyDeleteWhen the boy and the man were traveling down the road they discovered a wall that "held a frieze of human heads" and he was describing the heads by saying that "they wore gold rings in their leather ears and in the wind their sparse and ratty hair twisted about on their skulls" (90). In this passage, the author, Cormac McCarthy creates a horrifying tone because of the use of the words "sparse" and the phrases "leather ears" and "ratty hair" to describe the heads the boy and the man came across. The words create a nasty image in the readers head and shows how gross the heads are to show them the picture of this horrifying tone.
ReplyDeleteIn the Road, they boy and the man witness a horrible sight. "...and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites, illclothed against the cold and fitted in dogcollars and yoked each to each." (92) The words such as illclothed, dogcollars, and yoked convey a sort of "horrid" or "hopeless" tone. With these illclothed people fitted in dogcollars and yoked or connected together, the author's tone suggests he wanted to show how cruel people are in this world is and the lack of "hope" in this post-apocalyptic world.
ReplyDeleteThe boy and the old man are walking in a field. They are in the field that a battle was on and we know this because "The wall beyond help a frieze of human heads, all faced alike, dried and caved with their taunt grins and shrunken eyes." ( p. 90) The author created a fearful and hostile tone by using words like "frieze" and "dried" to describe what the heads looked like.
ReplyDelete"Sparks rose and dimmed and died in eternal darkness" pg. 96 I think this passage conveys a dark, scary, sad, death filled, hopeless, no life I think this because in the passage they are talking about how dark the place they are is,
ReplyDeleteThe man and the boy are traveling when the book says that "An army in tennis shoes , tramping. Carrying three-foot lengths of pipe with leather wrappings. Lanyards at the wrist. They clanked past, marching with a swaying gait like wind up-toys. Bearded, their breath smoking through their masks." This creates a fearful tone because he words such as tramping, lanyards, clanking, marching, and swaying.
ReplyDeleteThe boy and the man were sleeping in the middle of the woods when the man herd trees falling and woke the boy to run away and get out of the danger. The man noticed, "the whump of the falling trees and the low boom of the loads of snow exploding on the ground set the woods shuddering." (97) In this passage, Cormac McCarthy creates a threatening tone through his use of the words "whump", "shuddering", and the phrases "low boom". and "snow exploding on the ground" to describe the danger of the falling trees. The words create a dangerous picture showing that the trees falling make everything around the change and forces the man and the boy to move. This creates a threatening tone because the man and the boy must move everything because of the danger in the area.
ReplyDelete"They clanked past, marching with a swaying gait like wind up toys. Bearded, their breath smoking through their masks"(91). The word I can convey for tone after reading this passage is hostile. The people on the road were only doing directions that they were told to do. Basically they were assigned to a chore and had to finish the job.
ReplyDeleteAs the boy and his father come to a field where many battles were held they came across old bodies where "the heads not truncheoned shapeless had been flayed of their skins and the raw skulls painted and signed across the forehead in a scrawl and one white bone skull had the plate sutures etched carefully in ink like a blueprint for assembly" (90). In this passage McCarthy shapes a terrifying tone by his use of the words "truncheoned", "flayed", "raw", "scrawl" and "etched" to portray this tone.
ReplyDeleteAs the man & the boy sat along the road to rest. Right before the man fell asleep he hear many tree’s limbs fall to the ground. Almost as if by humans. They then spent a long time finding the cart. “The man pulled it upright out of the drifts & dug out the knapsack & shook it out & opened it & stuffed in one of the blankets. Then took his knife to set about cutting up one of the coats & wrapping the boy’s feet. He used the entire coat & then he cut big squares of plastic out of the tarp & gathered them up from underneath & wrapped & tied them at the boy’s ankles for warmth.” In this passage McCarthy is giving a sense as to how he would protect his son. To what lengths he would go for him & only him. In other words the tone would also be know as fear &/or protection. The words or phrases that then contain the tone include “warmth” as well as “drifts.” Lastly McCarthy creates this tone to show how the world is & also how people will be.
ReplyDeleteThe man and the boy have to survive together. In the lyrics of the song it says "got one eye on the road and one on you." This instantly made me think of the boy and the man. The man always has to keep an eye on the boy but also on the road. He has to balance between keeping an eye on the boy and keeping an eye on what is around them to keep them safe. "They trudged on. A frail slush forming over the dark surface of the road. The boy kept falling behind and he stopped and waited for him. Stay with me, he said." (Pg 93) the man had to keep an eye on the boy even while they were on the road. It displays a hopeless tone because it is hard to keep an eye on two things at once.
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