Contrasting Mood In 1984 And The Jungle

When you’re reading a text, the author uses description words to try to create moods for the reader to feel as they read and interpret the text. The moods assist the reading in feeling what the character may be feeling because of how the author describes the setting, and or what is going on at the moment. These moods can vary from positive to negative. For example, “1984” by George Orwell and “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair both have an overall mood that is anxious. Although they do have contrasting moods. 1984 gives mixed moods of peaceful, confining, and weak while The Jungle gives mainly negative moods such as, disgusted, shocked, and lonely. The author’s use of description create specific moods. Both texts have language that creates the

The readers first begin to feel peaceful because of how the author described the world outside versus the indoors. The author says, “though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere,” (1984). In this quote, the author implies that the outside is beautiful because of the sky. Although, it’s not beautiful because the world is all colorless besides the posters of Big Brother. The next mood that the author creates is confining. In the text it states, “In the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized,”(1984). This shows that the reader would feel confining, because no one wants someone to be watching and hearing them at every and or any given moment. The final mood that the author creates is weak. At the end of the excerpt, the character tries to remember his childhood. Although this happens, “But it was no use, he could not remember: nothing remained of his childhood except a series of bright-lit tableaux, occurring against no background and mostly unintelligible,” (1984). This helps the reader to feel weak because no matter how hard he tried to remember, it was no good. This made the reader feel weak because you cannot seem to remember the past. Throughout the excerpt 1984 the author uses description words to make the reader feel

First, the reader feels a sense of disgust because of how the author describes the environment. The excerpt says, “here and there would be a great factory…and immense volumes of smoke pouring from the chimneys, darkening the air above,”(The Jungle). These description words help the reader to feel disgusted because of how these factories are polluting and worsening the environment. The next mood that the readers feel is shocked. The text reads, “They were left standing upon the corners, starring… half a dozen chimneys, tall as the tallest of buildings…and leaping from them half a dozen columns of smoke, thick, oily, and black as night,”(The Jungle). This quote assists the reader to feel shocked because in the beginning of this excerpt, the immigrants were looking forward to working in the stockyards. It was until they got there and saw what stockyards meant, that made them change their minds. They were caught off by this change and that made them feel shocked. The final mood that the author makes the reader feel is lonely. In the text it states, “It was like the murmuring of the bees in the spring, the whispering of the forest; it suggested endless activity, the rumblings of a world in motion,” (The Jungle). This quote can make the reader feel lonely because of how the author describes the world. The author makes the world seem empty and purposeless. The readers will feel