<span>when a line of poetry runs to the next line without punctuation</span>
The direct object is the person doing the action, so in this case, the answer is 'The mother'.
<span>Tone is the way an author's words make the reader feel.
in general, writer could create a tone of the story with these following ways :
- Directly tell the readers about what the character currently feels
- by giving some clues about the reactions surrounding the characters
- By reflecting the condition with character's experiences</span>