Emotion and tone was evident throughout the beginning of the passage providing the reader with a sense of sympathy to and able to connect with young Jones on an emotional note. For instance, he struggled and allowed “passivity and loneliness” take over as many might have felt this way at the earlier stages of life. Jones then goes on about how his parents did not “[trust] the violent world” therefore they had separated him from the “crudest elements of American pop culture” making the tone weak and powerless from his controlling parents and grabs the sympathy of the reader. The tone and emotion becomes uplifted as he talks about his mother being able to allow Jones to read Marvel Comics “despite their apparent juvenility and violence,” they