Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay. New York: Scholastic, 2010. Print.
I think the mood created in the opening of my novel is a mixture of depressed, drained and gloomy. I think this mood is created because of the word choice and the image the descriptions are creating.
For example, there's a gloomy and depressed mood when the author writes, "The bricks of the chimney, which collapsed in the charred heap, provide a point of reference for the rest of the house. How else could I orient myself in this sea of grey?". The narrator, Katniss Everdeen is showing us that the remains of her house is a sea of grey. Which personally, I take as very gloomy. Also, when she says that the bricks of the chimney provide a point of reference for the rest of the house, Katniss is saying the bricks of the chimney are practically nothing. Which shows us the house is practically nothing aswell.
A second quote from the book that helps to show the drained and gloomy mood is, "A month ago, the Capitol's fire bombs obliterated the poor coal miners' houses in the Seam, the shops in the town, even the Justice Building". The setting of the coal miners' houses in the Seam, the shops in town and the Justice Building is described as destroyed with fire bombs. With a setting that is ruined like this, a drained mood is reflected since the houses, shops and Justice Building have been drained and destroyed.
Finally, the quote, "I stick to the road out of habit, but it's a bad choice, because it's full of the remains of those who tried to flee. Some were incinerated entirely. But others, probably overcome with smoke, escaped the worst of the flames and now lie reeking in various states of decomposition, carrion for scavengers, blanketed by flies." truly shows a gloomy and depressed mood. Katniss is walking around the dead bodies of all her lost friends and neighbours that she lost because of her unintended actions. Surely that would get any person or story in a depressed and gloomy mood.
Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay. New York: Scholastic, 2010. Print.
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