Richie had felt a mad, exhilarating kind of energy growing in the room. . . . He thought he recognized the feeling from his chil
dhood, when he felt it every day and had come to take it merely as a matter of course. He supposed that, if he had ever thought about that deep-running aquifer of energy as a kid (he could not recall that he ever had), he would have simply dismissed it as a fact of life, something that would always be there, like the color of his eyes . . . . Well, that hadn't turned out to be true. The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself—that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller . . . purpose, maybe, or goals . . . . Source: King, Stephen. It. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print. Which word describes the tone in this excerpt best?
Unfortunately, you haven't shared any options so that someone could pick the right one, but I think that my answer should be acceptable. While reading this excerpt, I felt like there is somessing missing in author's life, he mises his childhood. According to this, I can say that the <span>word which describes the tone in this excerpt in the best way is - NOSTALGIA. Hope that heps!</span>
