Authors use the way characters act or think to tell the reader how the characters are feeling.
Authors let the readers figure out how the characters feels by showing how the characters react to certain events.
Authors almost never come out and tell the reader how the characters are feeling, but instead lets the reader figure out how they're feeling themselves.
Todd feels like nothing matters now that Viols is gone.
Readers can tell that Todd is now hopeless, because Viola was the only reason Todd kept on living, wit her gone he is very depressed.
Readers can also tell because Todd said that he was dead inside multiply times .
Davy can also tell that Todd is depressed by how he reacts to the branding of the women. …show more content…
Todd's mood drastically changes once he finds Viola again, and becomes more hopeful and lighter, despite there being a war going