Because it gives them a sort of “authority” making others believe that they are the truthful ones and nobody else can be.
Throughout his writings, Bradbury used a lot of Text quotations or historical text written by other authors.
He did this so the authors that he Referenced will have the recognition that they deserve and so the readers could know where to look if they wanted to dig deeper to the materials that were referenced.
Mood is the feelings that the reader is having while reading the text.
The mood in this article is sad because all the animals that were hurt and the ocean turned into an oil pool is not happy.
