All Souls by Michael MacDonald and The Outsiders by SE Hinton use common tones in order to give their work more feeling. In All Souls, the writer's attitude is commonly nostalgic. “‘I miss this place,’ I said to him”... “I went on about this being the best place in the world” The book often talks about how despite living in a bad area it still felt homely and a place where he belonged. The Outsiders by SE Hinton uses similar tones, but in different situations “I half convinced myself that I had dreamed everything”... “I’m really home in bed, I thought. It’s late and both Darry and Sodapop are up. Darry’s cooking breakfast and in a minute he and Soda will come in and drag me out of bed.” In this circumstance, the main character Ponyboy finds himself wishing to be back home. Comparable to how the author of All Souls addresses missing his own. “Frustrated” is another tone used by both Michael MacDonald and SE Hinton. “But we still had a hard time from the boys in the neighborhood”... “They walked right up to the crowd of scrawny toughs and asked…” The tone is made apparent by the harsh language he uses when describing the scene, referring to the group as “Scrawny toughs”. “Johnny swore under his breath , and I muttered, ‘What do …show more content…
“There was an uneasy silence: Who was going to start it?” “The rest of us waited with mounting tension. I was reminded of Jack London’s books- You know, where the wolf pack waits in silence for one of two members to go down in a fight.” The characters are waiting for either side to throw the first punch. Michael MacDonald’s autobiography contains a similar description “We wondered what fights would break out that we could watch from our windowsills”...“Everyone would stop talking to watch the car drive past.”... “We were all hoping for some action, all the time” He was always on edge waiting for some kind of fight to break