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Dracula And Station 11 Mood

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Milyana Mentor
Ms. Brewster
June 5, 2023

The mood is an essential aspect of storytelling that can make the reader feel as if they are a part of the story. It creates a sense of an atmosphere and can help the reader feel the emotions that the characters have. The mood is there to help grab the reader’s attention and make sense of the environment. All fiction books use this method, but two novels that used it especially well are Dracula by Bram Stoker and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. To begin, Dracula’s mood is very gloomy and dark. As you read throughout the passage given, the description of the road surrounding our character Jonathan Harker brings and invokes a sense of fear along with dark. These are expressed through sensory such as sights and touch. These are expressed as Harker is approaching the castle of Draula. An example of this ominous creation would be within the line “...behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light, I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth …show more content…

Unlike the last one, this passage solely focuses on the sight aspect of the novel. Whilst reading through this passage, Mandel coaxes these senses in the scene of the protagonist going a travel through this post-apocolyptic world. During this scene, the protagonist happened to stumble upon a deserted location. An example of this description would be this line “They skirted the building first, looking in windows, and saw only ruined classrooms with graffiti on the walls. The back door gaped open into a gymnasium. Sunlight poured through a hole in the ceiling, a few weeds growing in the debris where light touched the floor.” This quote describes the abandoned school while still producing a feeling of emptiness. The school, which surely was filled with life, was left desgared and

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