Tone is the writer's attitude toward the audience, subject , or self. This creates a sort of emotion in the book and a way that the reader should feel either a spooky feeling, suspenseful, calm, or eerie. The writers tone typically carries into the narrator or main character to prove emotions and feelings of the scene without being too evident with what is going on. In Treasure Island, the character Jim Hawkins acts as the one to portray the authors tone toward a certain scene. The quote, “To see him leap and run and pursue me over hedge and ditch, was the worst of nightmares. And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies. But though I was so terrified by the idea of the seafaring man with one leg, I was far less afraid of the captain himself than anybody else who knew him.” This scene shows that the author is trying to explain a tone of being a bit fearful and nervous because he is more scared of captain but still shows some horrible feeling toward events that are going to occur. Another tone found in this excerpt is foreboding because it is fearful apprehension which makes it seem like an uneasy time.
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