"The Fall of the House of Usher" written by Edgar Allan Poe
Best word to describe the tone of " The fall of the house of usher " is Sadness and Sorrow. In this describing a person cut off from the world can fall prey to irrational fears and mental illness. he showing the narrator's fear of the tarn. The word which describes the tone is are overwrought and oppressive.
A hunter would protect himself from the bear by using a high powered rifle and a tree stand. The bear would protect itself from the hunter by climbing said tree and killing the hunter.