Core Literature
1)Please select a book from the following list to read this month:
REQUIRED CORE - Author
Of Mice and Men-Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
2) Please post the following:
- The book you selected
3) TONE
Use the words below to describe the way a writer conveys attitude (“tone”). Notice that they are grouped to give different degrees of each. Describe the tone citing text to support your claim.
- affectionate, nostalgic
- approving, admiring, worshipping
- candid, direct, incisive, informative
- complicated, pedantic, didactic
- disliking, patronizing, contemptuous, abhorring
- easy, friendly, comic, jovial
- flippant, cynical, sardonic, sarcastic, irreverent
- formal, elevated, grand, lofty
- insolent, antagonistic, hostile, inflammatory
- interested, benevolent, sympathetic, passionate
- objective, indifferent, apathetic
- serious, solemn, elegiac, lugubrious
- subdued, indirect, understated, evasive
- vibrant, dramatic, urgent, forceful
- whimsical, fanciful, effusive
- wistful, regretful, resigned, bitter, grim
15 comments:
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
Vanessa,
Please resubmit after you have checked over your punctuation.
Mrs. B
Vanessa,
Please resubmit after you have checked over your punctuation.
Mrs. B
Ariana,
Please finish your post.
Mrs. B
The book I chose to read is, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
The first element of tone that I found was disliking. (Pg. 3) “When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh.”
The second factor of tone I came across was grim. (Pg. 10-11) “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him. People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows.”
The third type of tone I encountered was sympathetic. (Pg. 14) “The sheriff hadn’t the heart to put him in jail alongside Negroes…”
I chose to read Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser. (Tenth Grade Required Core Book.) The author writes in a serious, urgent, and disliking manner about how fast food has changed the American society. Schlosser wrote, “Teenagers should be rewarded, not harmed, by the decision to work after school. And if the nation is genuinely interested in their future, it will adequately fund their education, instead of inviting [fast food] advertisers into the schools.” (Pg. 262)
The book that I have chosen to read is To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. I have heard that this is a great book and I am excited to read the book. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize and is known for its warmth and humor despite dealing with serious issues. The tone of the book is dramatic as seen on Pg. 14 when "Miss Stephanie Crawford said some of the town council told Mr. Radley that if he didn't take Boo back, Boo would die of mold from the damp".
Vanessa: Your going to love To Kill A Mockingbird. I didn't know how it was going to be at girst, but I started reading it and it's a book I look forward to reading, which I don't like to do. Your going to love this supsensful story.
In this quote, Scout conveys her exasperation and fear to her brother, Jem as he is about to go patronize the ghost.
(pg. 62) "You all've gone crazy, he'll kill us!"
This quote's tone portrays Miss Blount's anger and astonishment at Miss Caroline's class.
(pg. 29) "If I hear another sound from this room I'll burn up everyone in it. Miss Caroline, the sixth grade cannot concentrate on the pyramids for all this racket"
zclaes: Please check your citation.
I chose my passage from "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. I found one of my favorite pasages that communicates a mocking tone to Robert E. Lee Ewell. Personally, I think it is one of the best crafted paragraphs of the entire book.
"In answer to the clerk's booming voice, a little bantam cock of a man rose and strutted to the stand, the back of his neck reddening at the sound of his name. When he turned around to take the oath, we saw that his face was as red as his neck. We also saw no resemblance to his namesake. A shock of wispy new-washed hair stood up from his forehead; his nose was thin, pointed, and shiny; he had no chin to speak of-it seemed to be a part of his crepey neck."
Throughout the paragraph, Lee uses connotation that portrays Ewell as a rooster. A "bantam cock (Lee, 193)" is a rooster, and the "back of his neck redden(s)( 193)" to give him the color of a rooster. Named Robert E. Lee, historically a great and noble man, Lee provides some irony by noting, through the eyes of the narrator, Scout, that there was "no resemblance to his namesake (193)." Even more subtle, "a shock of wispy...hair(193)" and a "thin, pointed, and shiny (nose) (193)" complete Ewell's rooster description.
Colleen, I like your examples. Don't you love that book? In your first example, I also found a trace of hopelessness in the description of Jem's injury. I think the author may have put that in to show the causes of injustice, both to blacks and whites.
The second example, I believe, seems grim, as well as suspensful and curious.
I completely agree with your last analysis. By the way, good citations!!
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The first type of tone I found was approving.(pg 8):"Dill blushed and Jem told me to hush, a shure sighn that Dill was acceptable."
The second type of tone I found was forceful.(pg17)"Your fathe does not know how to teach. You can have a seat now."
The third type of tone I found was formal.(pg 20)"I beg your pardon Jean Louise?"
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