In the story The Day I Got Lost by Isaac Singer it is about an old professor named Shlemiel who can’t remember where he lives, and the whole story is about him trying to find his way home. All he can remember is that it is his birthday. The point of view of this text is first person because the author is using words like I, Me, I’m, etc. In this story there is many tones that you could use to describe this story but one of the best would be confused or paranoid. I chose these two tones because throughout the story he is always confused and paranoid of what’s going to happen next. An example from the text would be “ I'm always misplacing things. A hundred times I asked myself, Where is my pen? Where is my money? Where is my handkerchief? Where is my address book? I am what is known as an absentminded professor.” This quote from the text shows how he is always misplacing things which shows the confusing tone and also shows he is paranoid of where it is.
In the story A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane it was about a boy that finds a dog that is beaten and becomes from the dog. But when he brings it home his family doesn’t want the dog but allow it for a little while. The father of the kid never liked the dog and would hit it sometimes. But one night the father became extremely drunk picked up the dog and throw it out of the window of the five story building. In this story you could say it has a very dark tone due to the fact the dog got thrown out a window, but a better word to describe this would be depressing or despairing because it’s very sad that the dog dies at the end. A quote from the story that states the tone of the story would be “ When they came for him later, they found him seated by the body of his dark-brown friend.” Which states how much the boy really cared for the dog.
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