ELA-Author-Tone-F

Author's Craft - Tone - Print - Fiction Resources

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 * //Chronicle of Death Foretold**,**// Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Novel. Copyright 2003. ISBN-10: 140003471X, ISBN-13: 978-1400034710. The acceptance of honor as exemplified in South American countries prevades the tone of this novel. This tone expressed in the context of the novel leads to various visions of murder as acceptable to uphold honor. However, tone changes quickly as soon as a victim of honor dies, the rain drops of a dream of the killer become bird drippings in a real, newly awakened world.


 * //Caramelo//**,** Sandra Cisneros. Novel. Copyright 2003. ISBN-10: 0679742581, ISBN-13: 978-0679742586. The tone of //Carmelo// has to do with family lore and the telling of stories from different points of view, including lies, which illuminate a real family history. A tone of reconciling less popular family members with that which made that person unpopular leads of an undersatnding and even love.


 * //Monster//**,** Walter Dean Myers. YA novel. Copyright 2001. ISBN-10: 0064407314, ISBN-13: 978-0064407311. Constrasting tones enter from the first page of this YA novel. A tone of terror as a "guilty party" is accused of murder. Another tone emanates through the mind of the accused killer who is also a screenwriter. He envisions the action as a screen play with a dispassionate tone that brings the accused and reader to a new "reality."


 * //Hit the Road//**,** Caroline Cooney. YA novel. Copyright 2008. ISBN-10: 0440229294, ISBN-13: 978-0440229292. A Road-trip story in which tone and state of mind militate against "comon good sense." A blind Nanny, a grandmother in a nursing home and crazy highways bring love, lies, mistrust, and mockery to reach a redemptive tone, with "satisfying" restrictions.


 * //[|"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,"]// Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Short story.Tone changes dramatically as dark language elides into intimations of celestial beings who then take on the characteristics of a grotesque, lost creature, worthy both of the Pope's opinion and the degradation of becoming second in a sideshow of freaks. The "angel" is both a redeemer and a figure to be mocked.