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Dust Witch Tone Analysis

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TONE The tone of the Dust Witch is horrific and sympathetic. The tone of the Dust Witch is being conveyed as being horrific through the diction “poisonous”(Bradbury148), “soul”(150), and “blood”(149) when the boys are thinking of what the Dust Witch will do to him when it finds them. The tone is also seen as being sympathetic through the diction “fire”, “stopped”, and “doubts”(251) when Mr. Dark places the Dust Witch at the end of the rifle. When Mr. Dark does this he feels sympathetic and sorry for what he has done to others that have messed around at the carnival.
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