By believing that women could be valued enough to vote, men began to realize that our thoughts and words could actually mean something and so, the things that women wrote were thought about too. They were taken into consideration and even debated. This was kind of an honor to women of the time.<span />
The mood that these words help create is one of despair and difficulty. Clearly the narrator is struggling, he actually uses the words "difficult" and "struggling" clearly within his paragraph. Other words that contribute to this mood of despair are "fear", "faint", and "hungry". A person usually only feels these things and discusses them when they are in a place that is dangerous and that they have no real hope of getting out of.