Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. It took me nine hours to make, and I had thought about giving it to
Sonny, the homeless person who I sometimes see standing outside the Alliance Française, because he puts me in heavy boots, or maybe to Lindy, the neat old woman who volunteers to give tours at the Museum of Natural History, so I could be something special to her, or even just to someone in a wheelchair. But instead I gave it to Mom. She said it was the best gift she’d ever received. Which word from this excerpt most reveals the tone? homeless, because it implies loneliness heavy, because it communicates the narrator’s desperation neat, because it reveals the narrator’s whimsical fancy special, because it implies confidence.
Theword from this excerpt that most reveals the tone is: special, because it implies confidence.
In this excerpt from the text, we can detect a special tone. The speaker had made something special which she desired to give to someone who would appreciate it.
She thought of several people to give it to and finally decided on giving it to her mother. Her mother appreciated it.
So, the tone that is felt from this poem can best be described as Special.
I did one once about the Holocaust. I talked about how the Jews survived and the Nazis failed to succeed. In the poem, I related the Nazis to a storm and the Jews to people on a wooden ship out at sea.
