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The author would use the tone to convey his attitude towards the subject. Additionally, the author also uses a different kind of tones to indicate his certain purpose of the story. The readers will get a different kind of mood while reading a story. For an example, while I read "The Rattler" I got different emotions and feels that were usually inconsistent according to the situation in a story such as frighten, scare, sadness and enraged. In one of the storylines said, "I listened for a minute to this little song of death. It was not ugly, though it was ominous. It said that life was dear, and would be dearly sold. And I reached into the paper-bag bush with my hoe and, hacking about, soon dragged him out of it with his back broken." Basically,

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