In a paragraph of at least three sentences, explain the mood of this excerpt from Little Brother. Provide details from the text
to support your answer. When they took the hood off again, I was in a cell. The cell was old and crumbled, and smelled of sea air. There was one window high up, and rusted bars guarded it. It was still dark outside. There was a blanket on the floor and a little metal toilet without a seat, set into the wall. The guard who took off my hood grinned at me and closed the solid steel door behind him.
Gloomy. The way which the character describes his cell makes it seem like a dark and gloomy place. He said they gave him a blanket and a toilet and thats it, the bars are rusty, the cell was crumbled. The guard even smiled at him as if he was enjoying putting him in there.
Answer: Tessie's obviously negative view of the lottery after she wins conflicts with the readers' previous view of the lottery as rather mundane to create suspense about why Tessie gets so upset.
