Response #8: Mood vs Tone

Edgar Allen Poe saw the world as a cruel, dark, lonely, and perverness world. His tone was dark, disgust, loneliness, and evil. If he wanted the story to be depressing he would do exactly that. He'll have the imagery, diction, and mood. He wants the audience to feel what he wants them to feel. To him he didn't see the world all happy or cheerful, he saw a living hell for him. Like in the story Raven, how he describe that the main character lost his love and how he try's to distract himself by reading a book and the mood for the audience is sad and depressing. That's his tone for the audience. Later on when the Raven kept saying 'never more' meaning his soul won't go to heaven where his love is at. It becomes more dark and more depressing than it was. Or the story The Tell Tale Heart, the main character was crazy and all about him thinking that his father's eye was evil. That set a mood for the audience to feel awkward and uncomfortable because of the situation. It's not normal for a person to think that this oerson's eye is evil and they have to kill it. Also in his stories he makes it like he's talking to you and it makes it more uncomfortable because he's telling you these crazy things.However Edgar does make a point in his stories, like how loneliness will make you go crazy or how we all have a 'beast' inside us. All these dark stories he had wrote, the characters in his stories we all have bits of pieces of their personalities inside of us.

Response #7: Theme (Revenge!!!!!!!!)

You know when someone calls you a name or something and you want to get them back? It's call revenge. Sometimes there are harmless revenge, like if someone just went behind and scared you and you scared them the same way, that's harmless. Then there's the revenge that has strong consequences. You can never predict whether or not your revenge will have consequences. Some people call it payback, others call it vengeance. There all the same to revenge just in different forms. Sometime revenge can make you feel powerful and good or it could make you feel guilty and regret it, sometimes equally both.

One time in middle school I got this new shirt that I liked and I would wear it for 2 days a week. One day I wore my new shirt and this girl who was the kind of person who get's on everyone's nerves came up to me and saw that I wore the shirt like everyday. I know I shouldn't have gotten irritated by that but she has irritated me before and I let it slide but this time I felt like telling her off. I told her that she wore that ugly face of her everyday but I didn't complain. Almost everyone heard and started laughing a bit.

The outcome of my revenge got my classmates laughing and cheering. My revenge didn't get me into trouble because the teacher was out of the classroom, I was lucky that day. The girl's reaction was just as I expected, she said nothing but sat down. I didn't mean to say it out loud I just wanted her to hear it that's all. My outcome of my revenge felt good for me but at the same time a bit guilty because everyone heard and they might've have started teasing about her. After that day no one started teasing her or anything, it was just any other day. I was lucky that I didn't make it any worse, she stopped taking to me which was good for me because I didn't want to deal with her. Revenge came have a bad outcome for you or a good one, mine was equally both.