The Most Dangerous Game

  In class we recently read The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell in which we talked about its tone and mood. The tone of this book is a little gloomy and the subject focuses around hunting. But it is the type of hunting that makes this story's tone so dark. In the book this man hunts humans which is dark in itself so the tone automatically would be grim, scary, sad...etc. The tone of this book is the story in a way,without it the book would be boring. For example one part of the book said, " It was so dark...that i could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids-". The author could have said it was dark but the way he said it was descriptive and made the tone eerie. The book used tone in a very depressing way by giving places weird names. "We call it Death Swamp." is an example if that. The reason why that name sets the tone is because the word death and swamp in one sentence can make one feel rather depressed. The tone and mood in the story are medieval.

out of character

I recently read and finished  J. R. R. Tolkens book The Hobbit and began to realize that the character Bilbo is out of his character. he comes from a long family that frowns upon adventures or even leaving their hometown. So one of his friends Gandalf asks him to go on a quest to "the Lonely Mountian" to get treasure. He immediately says no  because of his reputation of being rich and never leaving his town. But after he hears of these adventures he longs to go. He then decides that he is more important than his reputation and decides to go. By going out of his character he is later rewarded with gold to spend when he returns; but also he has to fight to get back his  stuff that was in his house. So his choice that was out of character later led to great riches but also a little loss of furniture.

Challenging my thinking

Challenging my thinking

I recently started reading J. R. R. Tolkien’s book the hobbit. This book challenges my thinking because the word usage is king of hard. Also there are a couple of words in the book witch are not English but are made up. So I consistently have to flip and find the definition of the book in order to get a better understanding of the book. Also some of the descriptions in the book are kind of hard to understand imagery wise. To solve that problem I have to read over the sentence just a couple of times to imagine it.

first blog

my first bog!!!!!!