Tuesday, June 24, 2014

How does Hemingway indicate tone in "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Karyth Cara
In order
to understand how an author indicates tone in a work, you need to have a
correct understanding of the concept of tone in literature. Tone in
literature is the attitude, opinion, assessment the narrator has of the characters and events in
the narrative, and tone can be described in terms of attitudinal emotional quality (emotional
qualities related to attitude), such as playful, hopeful, pessimistic.
Narrators are not neutral, although some come close to being neutral. Each narrator has a
tone through which they narrateand plot development.

Tone
is external to the narrative in that it is not part of setting, characterization, character
interaction, plot action or mood (which is also called). Tone is also external to the narrative
insofar as it is a characteristic of the narrator; it is part of the narrative mode (also called
narratorial mode). This is less clear when the narrator is first-person, thus also a character
of the story, though it is more clear...









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