Question

I do not recollect of ever seeing my mother by the light of day. She was with me in the night. She would lie down with me, and get me to sleep, but long before I waked she was gone. Very little communication ever took place between us. Death soon ended what little we could have while she lived, and with it her hardships and suffering. She died when I was about seven years old, on one of my master’s farms, near Lee’s Mill. I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial. She was gone long before I knew anything about it. Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.
Which best describes the tone of this excerpt?

Answer 1

Answer:

Tone: Sorrow and Regret

Explanation:

I would say sorrow and mourning for the first half of it due to the nature of the way there talking makes it seem as if they have lost something they never had. This could also be described as mourning for the loved ones you never new of and make our character mourn over the death of here never before seen mother. Another tone I see near the end hint in is regret using descriptive language to describe how our character could hold our mother, and spend time with her before she died. As well as the regret of not being able to see her in sickness, or at her burial site. This may be the description of a older person describing the time when there mother died that they never knew when they were younger.

Answer 2

Answer:

sorrowful and despondent