Mood – The feeling that the story evokes in the reader.
Describe the mood of chapter 4 in Skeleton Man. What words and/or phrases does the author use to create that mood? Explain how those words/and or phrases create that mood.
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The mood of the story is an eerie feeling and there is a suspenseful feeling of wondering what could happen next. The way the author describes her environment. It tells you about her windows being barred and how she hears creaks as he walks up the stairs and also the author makes her uncle seem like a strange and scary person to live with which adds to the mood because you wonder what someone like him could be hiding or do to the girl.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that she doesn’t know who he is but her so called uncle makes a stronger mood.
I think the mood is kind of sad because of the title of the chapter. The name of the chapter is called “dark cedars” This mood makes the chapter seem dark and made the girl feel upset. Try and walk in her shoes, she has been kidnapped and is living with someone she doesn’t know. On top of that her parents are dead! So I understand were she is coming from.
ReplyDeleteI think the Mood is Nervouse. The reason for thinking this is that when she woke up she didn't want to eat what Her "uncle" fixed in frieght of what he could of done to it. So she ran out of the house and to the bus stop and quickly dumped the food out befoer the bus came. When she got to school she saw her friend, her friend called out to her she kept walking as if she didn't here her. But she said she couldn't tell anyone anything and it was like she was being controled.
ReplyDeleteThe mood that chapter four creates for me is lonely and hopeful. It creates that mood because in the chapter the only place she feels safe is at school, and there is really no one she can talk to about her problems “… my second best friend waves to me from her locker, I pretend not to see her…” until after class was over she had a talk with one of her teachers “is everything all right, at home?” at first she hesitates to tell her but she eventually does after all. “ here is my home phone and cell call me anytime” her teacher told her and it made her feel better.
ReplyDeleteI think the mood of Chapter 4 is confusing because the story is held in different settings. Like the narrator is in her dream. Then the setting is her dreams. I didn’t know that the settings switched. In the dreams it said she had a brother that they never said she had one.
ReplyDeleteThe mood in skeleton man is eerie because at the beginning of the story her parents disappear if that’s not spooky and ominous enough she tells a story about this lazy uncle who burns his finger and puts it in his mouth. It tastes good but he is still hungry. Now he burns his whole hand and eats the flesh off of it then his arm he does the same then his other arm then his legs and then his whole body! But he is still hungry he eats the rest of his family sucked the flesh right off of them. If that is not scary I don’t know what is. Another thing that adds to the mood is after her parents disappear her great uncle who she has never met before comes to pick her up he is confirmed her family he even has the same pictures of the family but she doesn’t buy it. This is how the mood is eerie.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 3 I think the mood for me was: puzzling. I think it was puzzling because it goes to reality to dream (back and forth). Another reason why I think its puzzling is because I don’t see why she doesn’t like her uncle I mean having a uncle that’s weird is okay. “im headed back to the house of doom”
ReplyDeleteThe mood in chapter was afraid. She was afraid because of what the rabbit had told her. The rabbit said if u don’t kill me I would help survive. The rabbit also the man that is your uncle isn’t a human. So from there she got scared and started to wonder. She didn’t like going through the hallways or stairs because she didn’t like seeing him(aka her uncle). She also didn’t like the way she stood at the end of the stairs behind the coat rack and stair at her coming down.
ReplyDeleteWorried because, she has to leave her house and live with a stranger also she can’t be with her parents, “ I want to scream and cry and have her hold me while I sob against her shoulders”.
ReplyDeleteThe point of view for this novel is FIRST PERSON. I say this because she uses words like I meaning her. An example from the text is “I walk home because it takes longer to ride the bus”. I think the author chose this point of view because he wanted it to seem real, because the person who tells the story usually tells the truth. The point of view is effective because the reader wants to hear the actually story from the person who experiences it, it is much easier to believe.
ReplyDeleteThe mood in chapter four is gloomy because she feels weird and doesn’t have anyone to talk to her feelings about. Then she talks to her teacher about her problems and she feels a little bit better, but it is still gloomy because she doesn’t feel safe with her uncle. “is everything all right, she pauses…as home? What home? That is what I want to say. I want to scream and cry and have her hold me in her arms while I sob against her shoulder. But what good would that do? So I give her my patented sunny smile.” This shows that she didn’t have someone to talk about and that she felt awful in her “uncles” house. She doesn’t want people to think she is a baby or anything because of her feeling uncomfortable in her “uncles” house. “Everything is fine, I say. Really fine. Really? She says in a soft voice. Then she looks beyond that smile, right into my eyes as if she can see my thoughts. It’s not the way my “uncle does it, not like someone stealing a part of me. No I whispered. “Its not” This shows that she finally opens up to someone she can trust. She feels as if her “uncle” is not very nice because he does strange stuff like lock her in her bedroom every night. Over all, this chapter was gloomy because she couldn’t tell anyone how she felt, besides her tacher.
ReplyDeleteThe mood for chapter 4 is worried because the main character is calling the house she lives in for now as doom. An example would be “I’m headed back to the house of doom.” I think this because we don’t know why she refers it to the house of doom because it doesn’t seam to be that bad but her uncle still gives her food. Another example is “But I’m determined not to eat the food he gives me.” I say this because what is the point of not eating the food just because she got sick once from what he cooked doesn’t mean that you can’t try it again and see if you do or don’t get sick.
ReplyDeleteThe mood in chapter 4 is lonely. She had no one to tell about how she felt, or what was happening with her “uncle”. “All of a sudden I feel as if I am about to burst out in tears. I have to put my head down on my desk. What is wrong with me?” She felt weird knowing that every night he was going to look into her bedroom. She cared about what people thought and because of that, she didn’t tell people about what was going on at home only because she didn’t want people to think wrong. But by the end of the chapter she opened up to her teacher.
ReplyDeleteI think the mood of chapter 4 is suspenseful and tense because she still stuck in the room in night and she doesn’t know what could happen next, also it best describes the story so far because the girl doesn’t know what to do. She’s scared of what will happen next and it makes the story is suspenseful and tense while she was living in a room in her uncles house witches makes it seem mysterious to. The girl express some emotions that really don’t describe her while she was talking to the teacher.
ReplyDeleteThe mood that the story gives is fear, and suspense-fullness. I think this because the girl is scared because her parents have vanished and she has no idea where they are, and she’s living in a house with a man who claims he’s her uncle. It’s suspenseful because you don’t know what might happen next in the story. The morning after her dream she’s scared and when he makes her breakfast she puts it into a plastic bowl because she thinks that he might try to poison her.
ReplyDeleteThe mood in chapter 4 is creepy. It is creepy because she saw a very skinny man standing by the shed. It was her unlce in her dream. She kept hearing voices & it was a rabbit saying he is not human, when you see him he is not human. she thought she was being drugged by him, she couldnt go out her room only for school and to use the bathroom. This is creepy because she gets locked in at night and keeps seeing him and hearing things tell her its not human.
ReplyDeleteScared becuase her uncle was keeper her locked in a room and if i was her i would be scared to becuase she didnt really know him as well.I say this becuase in the txet it says the the only time she goes out the room is when she going to school or eating breakfast and that shows that she scared.Also in the txt it says that her uncle locks her door at night to keep her in the house.
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