By Telling The Story In Third Person According To Gansberg

When referring to writing, tone is described as the writer’s attitude toward their subject matter and audience. To analyze any literary essay, recognizing tone is vital to understanding how the writer feels about the subject he has written about but also the underlying message he is trying to convey. In the essay written by the investigative reporter Jessica Mitford entitled, “To Bid the World Farewell” Tone is very pronounced and effective in getting the main point of the essay across. The author uses many different tones, from which I have selected three to analyze. All three off them use the good principles of writing a convincing and informative essay. Her ability to sarcastically familiarize the general public with the ‘dark arts’ of the embalming industry is both suggestive and engaging. She also uses an abundance of euphemisms, hiding the disturbing truth under a string of organized connotations. Her last method of tone is to inform the reader of the embalming methods by explaining with the wordy and often misunderstood colloqialisms of an actual ‘dermasurgeon’, in which she provides multiple quotes to further convince the reader.

Authors write to be understood and to show others their beliefs. They want to color a picture for you in the words they are writing. John Steinbeck used word choice, parallelism, and foreshadowing in Of Mice and Men in the same way a great artist creates a scene.

The author’s main idea and purposes are revealed by a series of anecdotes and allusions. The author gets very personal about the subject, as if she was going through the realization herself. You can see her opinion by the way she refers to certain things. For example, the author brings up an old memory from her childhood in paragraph nine. When she is describing the boxcar children, the words she uses are almost as if they were too

There are stories he incorporates to illustrate the point. In the middle we move to a more self-centered narrative. He tells of his story in New Jersey where he realized he could kill someone. He shares some of his thoughts of why people acted as they did towards him and others. This is an effective way he uses narrating and analyzing to work for the reader’s understanding.

One of the most techniques I notice that David uses his selection is the style of Persuasion; Ethos, Logo and Pathos. The techniques that he used to help broaden the audience’s imagination; creating a clear view of the scenes to what the author is talking about and how he was feeling during those scenes. David used Pathos for most of his essay, leading his audience into his feelings and emotions as he tells us his story. In addition to the earlier techniques, David came across some simple, entertaining methods to accomplish the purpose of this selection (Entertainment). David implied gibberish words which made it a lot more interesting and enjoyable.

What is the author’s tone? Describe his writing style and how you believe it helps create tone? The authors tone changes throughout the book. He stays very optimistic except for a few instances when his mind tells himself that he is going to die and is giving him negative thoughts. His tone is also very different when he is having flashbacks to his time hiking with friends or when he is remembering events that occurred with his family. During his flashbacks he is genially happy. He has so much love for his family and for hiking and it is so evident because even with the situation he is in he still reflects on the most amazing times of his life instead of being pessimistic about the situation he is in. His writing style is very knowledgeable and detailed. He uses several literary devices such as personification, illusion and imagery to help with the tone. His writing style helps create tone because his optimistic outlook on everything gives people hope and it shows that even in the worst of situations if you are positive you can make it

There is an emphasis on the language and dictation between the two groups. He displays emotional language to show the lack for stability in both sides of the argument. Logos in the argument is nonexistent; pathos is the power behind the words. Discussion between the two is unproductive at best. Language used by the parties are shown as immature; from the beginning of passages it starts with name-calling, “wackos…wise users”. There is no real argument

Nicholas Carr addresses and adapts to his audience by effectively using pathos, a rhetorical appeal. The author captures his audience by appealing to their emotions. For example, Carr explains on page five,

Precise writers make linguistic choices to create certain effects. They want to have their readers react in a certain way. Go back through the text and analyze Krakauer’s use of words, sentences, and paragraphs, and take note as to how effective a writer he is.

Graff then goes on to establish his ethos in the first few paragraphs while continuing to expand the thoughts and ideas on pathos throughout his essay. He begins to build his community and trust by recognizing his own credentials and sharing his personal background in writing. One of the first things noticed from the footnote about Gerald Graff’s professional career is that he has vast experience in the writing department. He is an English professor at a prestigious university, a past president of the Modern Language Association, and part of the professional association of scholars and teachers of English and other languages (198). But, since his background only assists his argument and does not define it, it is crucial to also look at his word choice, mood, language, and ideology in order to fully claim Graff a credible author.

Everyday we observe people’s contrasting opinions. Whether it be in politics, school, or in one’s personal life, emotions are often a major factor when it comes to expressing one’s ideas. In writing, an audience must be aware this, and decide for themselves if an author is being bias or equally representing all sides to a situation. In both Into the Wild and In Cold Blood, the authors form distinct opinions about their main characters and believe family structure heavily influenced their future.

One example of this contrast includes: “Look, we don’t get to be cool very often. We take it where we can get it.” (Giffels 12). This line shows the way he writes simply using a generic term such as ‘cool’ and then one example where he uses switches to a more advanced level can be seen on page fourteen. Giffels’ describes a day at his office with descriptive detail: “I was working in my office on a gray Sunday afternoon near the end of the spring semester, chilly gusts sweeping at the windowpanes.” Another reason his writing style is unique is because Giffels tries to target as large an audience as possible throughout his book. The reason for this broad style is so that it will appeal to readers by their preferences. Therefore, his unique style allows the readers to be more intrigued in the book because of this one may come to the conclusion that Giffels’ choice to use this style to appeal to as wide a margin as he possibly could, was a smart

EQ: How does the author use diction and other literary devices to create a mood?

Ultimately, the speaker's emotional distance from a topic will affect the tone of a piece. This is especially true with narrative essays, in which authors

James Pennebaker argues in his article Ignoring the Content, Celebrating the Style, that the way a person writes can reveal parts of their personality. In the article he specifies the difference between what he calls “content words” and “style words”, the former being those words in a sentence which give it meaning and the latter being the opposite (84- 85). He argues that how these style words are used differs between people and therefore can be a valuable tool for extrapolating bits of their personality. In the beginning of the article he describes a test often administered by psychologists in which people are asked to look at a picture and write down what they see (83). According to Pennebaker, the way a person responds to the picture can