Mood Transformation In Joyce Carol Oates Great Expectations
When I was 8 years old my family and I went to knotts berry farm. Being a small kid the time, I barely reached the height minimum to board. When I got on, I had to share a seat and lap bar with my dad and we didn't put the seat belt on correctly. When the ride started, I could feel me slide around and my body lift off the seat. The whole ride I ended up hugging the lap bar, that wasn't even pushing on my legs, in hopes that I would not fly off the seat. With this experience my mood transformed from being happy and excited to a terrifying life threatening situation. This shows that transformation obviously creates fear. This can be seen in the following 3 stories as well. “The Raven”, “House Taken Over” and “Where is Here” use mood transformation
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This is effective because it causes the reader to question exactly what the stranger did and what caused the family's mood to change. One example of the family being a normal happy family is shown in the first sentence when the narrator says “For years they had lived without incident in their house in a quiet residential neighborhood”. This shows that before the stranger the family has live a somewhat normal happy life. In contrast, “The father pushed past her without comment. In the living room he saw the lights flicker as if on the brink of going out; the patterned wall seemed to drain of color” shows how the families entire demeanor or tone towards each other changed when the stranger left. Therefore, the transformation was effective because as the stranger became sad and threatened, so did the …show more content…
This is effective because it changes the mood from a relaxed laid back tone into a tense nervous tone. For instance, paragraph 9 says “she let her knitting fall and looked at me with her tired, serious eyes”. This shows that in one line they would just be relaxing and the next they would be running for their lives, thus proving that the author transforms the environment and mood to strike fear in the reader. Therefore transformation was effective because it changed mood and
This is effective because it causes the reader to question exactly what the stranger did and what caused the family's mood to change. One example of the family being a normal happy family is shown in the first sentence when the narrator says “For years they had lived without incident in their house in a quiet residential neighborhood”. This shows that before the stranger the family has live a somewhat normal happy life. In contrast, “The father pushed past her without comment. In the living room he saw the lights flicker as if on the brink of going out; the patterned wall seemed to drain of color” shows how the families entire demeanor or tone towards each other changed when the stranger left. Therefore, the transformation was effective because as the stranger became sad and threatened, so did the …show more content…
This is effective because it changes the mood from a relaxed laid back tone into a tense nervous tone. For instance, paragraph 9 says “she let her knitting fall and looked at me with her tired, serious eyes”. This shows that in one line they would just be relaxing and the next they would be running for their lives, thus proving that the author transforms the environment and mood to strike fear in the reader. Therefore transformation was effective because it changed mood and