Mood Shift Analysis Read paragraphs 15. Then, answer the following questions.
"Before you take me up to bed, will you tell me a story?"
"Do you actually need me to take you up to bed?" I asked the boy.
He thought for a moment. Then, with intense seriousness, "Yes, actually I think you do. It's because
of, I've finished my homework, and so it's my bedtime, and I am a bit scared. Not very scared. Just a
bit. But it is a very big house, and lots of times the lights don't work and it's a sort of dark."
I reached over and tousled' his hạir.
"I can understand that,” I said. "It is a very big old house." He nodded. We were in the kitchen,
where it was light and warm. I put down my magazine on the kitchen table. "What kind of story
would you like me to tell you?"
1. What mood does this setting create?
2. Which details help create mood?

"the trouble is," sighed the doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. it seems to be a provision of nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. and nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost." what larger idea is the doctor referring to when he says that nature takes no account of moral consequences? impulses often overrule a person’s sense of good and bad. nature forces women into motherhood. young people are prone to having delusions. morals play no role when we choose who we love.

Read this excerpt from "the light of gandhi's lamp" by hilary kromberg inglis, in which she describes driving to the police station where her sister is being detained. to avoid looking at the blackened windows at the top of the building and thinking about the history of who had died or been tortured there, i always looked instead at the little chinese restaurant on the opposite side of the road. how does this passage affect the text? it conveys, with great subtlety, the conflict she felt over having a sister who would break the law and end up in the custody of the police. it conveys, without any implied moral judgment, that those who fought against apartheid considered themselves to be soldiers in a just war. it conveys, with an extended metaphor, the idea that being detained by the police in this society was regarded as a badge of honor. it conveys, with direct language, the view held by many anti-apartheid activists that the police often acted in brutal and unlawful ways.

Write a poem that's at least 10 lines long. : )