Hernandez #1
Brianna Hernandez
Smith
English, Credit 2
Tone and How it is Created
Words are the greatest way to communicate, however the way we speak and how we say it drastically changes the way it is understood and. In all the works of writing, there is a tone and mood the author creates in order for the reader to connect to what they are reading. In the works “Hope for Animals and Their World” by Jane
Goodall and “Carry” by Linda Hogan, both authors use this strategy. Both Goodall and
Hogan’s works used diction, punctuation, and text structure to help create tone in their writing. This allows them to enhance the power of their central ideas.
Word choice, or diction, is part of a three point system to create one tone and mood. In “Carry”
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Giving that sense of wonder and fascination yet wary and eerie feeling when she describes the water. In lines 9-14, the eerie feeling comes to play as Hogan is talking about the hawks fate in the dark cold water. The sense of wonder comes from lines 15-23 as Hogan is describing the water as a silver coin stretched thin, smooth as skin. Word choice is a powerful tool that helps the writer, becoming first in the three point system.
The second step in this system is punctuation. As everyone knows punctuation is the periods, commas, quotation marks, question marks, exclamation marks, and the many others we use on a daily basis. But what they don't know is that the daily punctuation we use, can help a writer create tone and mood. When an author is writing about a horror scene, the dashes are most commonly used to depict that the character is frightened for they are stuttering. Punctuation helps the writer create an emotion the reader can relate to. Causing the reader to connect with the given mood and tone.
Allowing this to become the second step in this three step process.
Text structure, the third and final step in achieving tone and mood. Text structure is how the information is a written text is organized. In “Hope for Animals and