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As the author describes this imagery, he has a negative tone. Words such as "darkness", "windows tightly shut", and "no sound" makes the author's tone negative. This quote is describing the homes as an unhappy place and compares it to the chamber a tomb-world. Every home is individual and separate from each other. This is showing judgmental on the American Society.
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