<span>The passage has a melancholy mood throughout.
Demonstrated by the negative tone and word choice in the passage.</span>
Answer:
It should be :The dog rounded the corner so fast, he knocked me over. Sending me towards his food bowl.
Explanation:
This happens when Ruby becomes disappointed with Tom when the hose leaks and Ruby can no longer dive. The two stop hanging out, and Tom loses her friendship.
The light, then, is the light that her friendship brought to his life. Her friendship is light -- it is happiness and is joy to Tom. When the two friends stop hanging out, the light goes out of the marsh. The author is saying the joy has gone out of Tom's life.
He would have become stone
It might have been the night of broken glass, you don't say what year but thats probably what your asking about.
