Read the following passage from Snow Falling on Cedars and choose a tone, based on punctuation, sentence fluency, and word choice. When you post your comment, list the tone and at least one reason to support your choice.
San Piedro was an island of five thousand damp souls, named by lost Spaniards who moored offshore in the year 1603. They'd sailed in search of the Northwest Passage, as many Spaniards did in those days, and their pilot and captain, Martin de Aquilar of the Vizcaino expedition, sent a work detail ashore to cull a fresh spar pole from among the hemlocks at water's edge. Its members were murdered almost immediately upon setting foot on the beach by a party of Nootka slave raiders. Settlers arrived- mostly wayward souls and eccentrics who had meandered off the Oregon Trail. A few rooting pigs were slaughtered in 1845- by Canadian Englishmen up in arms about the border- but San Piedro Island generally lay clear of violence after that. The most distressing news story of the preceding ten years had been the wounding of an island resident by a drunken Seattle yachtsman with a shotgun on the Fourth of July, 1951.
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I thought the passages was somber and despondent. i chose this tone because the sentences were pretty long and the passage talked a lot about death and the troubles of the area.
The tone i believe is best for this passage is solemn and somber. The commas somewhat relax you while the word choice is mildly depressing. (i.e. five thousand damp souls) The entire passage speaks of deaths in the San Piedro area, which is a solemn, serious topic.
I think the tone would be somber, because there is lots of kiling in this section of the reading.
I think the tone of this passage is tranquil and impartial. The passage gave me the feeling that the island had been a crime free and peaceful area since its founding. It was also just informing the reader what the island was like. It was impartial.
I thought that the passage was impartial and somber. I thought it created a gloomy feeling talking about how the people were murdered but at the same time it didn't take sides and just told the story.
The tone of this passage is very obviously solemn. This is due to the expression of gloom throughout the explaination of all the events the small island has encountered.
This passage has an incisive and very just informative tone to it.
I think that the tone of this passage would be despondent and maybe somber. What makes me think this is when it says that there are damp souls, named by lost spaniards.
The tone of the passage is an impartial tone. The passage is informative and is telling the history of the island. The author is taking no sides to the story, he is just retelling information.
I think that tone of the passage can be best described as impartial and nostalgic. Impartial because the author takes no sides. Nostalgic because of the information being given about an earlier time period. There is also a hint of sympathy in the writing, the author showing slight concern toward the killings of the first settlers.
Settlers arrived- mostly wayward souls and eccentrics who had meandered off the Oregon Trail.
The tone of this passage is despondent. Despondent means showing extreme discouragement or depression. The author is letting us know that their attitudes were; tired, exhausted, and odd from being lost and staggering off of the Oregon Trail. On top of their attitude they had to deal with savages. The passage is starting the tone of gloom making the reader believe there is more to come.
personally i feel the tone of theis passege is both pedantic and somber. Because the way the passage is portrayed is that the authoe is just stating the information. But it does seem to have a gloomy theme
I think the tone of the passage is somber. Somber is conveying a gloomy, dismal, or depressing character or mood. The passage isn't sad but more gloomy. It is talking about how they got the land.
The tone of this passage is Somber which is conveying a gloomy, dismal, or depressing character of the mood. I think this because in the passage the author says "San Piedro was and island of five thousand damp souls, named by lost spaniards who moored offshore in the year 1603." or when He says "Settlers arrived- mostly wayward souls and eccentrics who meandered off the oregon trail." David Guterson used the words soul, eccentrtics, lost, and meandered sounding really gloomy or mysterious.
This paragrpah sets the tone with a relaxed, desciptive tone. However towards the end it shifts because there isnt as many commas, and the word choice is harsher words like murder. "It's members were murdered immediatly upon setting foot on the beach by a party of Nootka slave raiders". The tone seems more somber because the talk of death.
In this excerpt, the island is introduced in a very somber way. The author described how the island's first settlers were murdered almost immediatley when they set foot ashore. The author is setting the tone by describing some of the bad events that occurred on the island.
The following passage expresses a despondent tone. It talks about the people being murdered and the dialog isn't in a very happy tone.
This passage has a somber tone. The writer talks about people being murdered and uses other phrases to show a sad or gloomy mood. One phrase is "five-thousand dampened souls, named by lost spaniards."
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