The author's tone sets a mood to a story and pursues the reader's emotions towards the story or characters. For example, in "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury sets different tones towards two characters, Clarisse and Beatty. Clarisse is a girl who, in a way, changes Montag, the protagonist, in realizing the truth or gives him a different perspective towards society, while Beatty is Montag's boss who opposes to this change. Bradbury's attitude towards Clarisse is positive and respectful/admiration. The tone towards Beatty is the opposite as Clarisse's, which is negative, but it also changes. The tones of these characters are shown because of the authors use of words.
Bradbury describes Clarisse like she's an angel and innocent. "Her face was slender...and it was kind of gentle...Her dress was white and it whispered." After this quote, Bradbury continues describing her and this description makes Clarisse sound innocent and angelic because he uses the word gentle and she's wearing a white dress. Clarisse is a curious girl who asks Montag questions and these questions starts changing Montag. She asks him if he's happy and if he's in love, and Montag doesn't have a clear answer to what she asks. She makes the protagonist think about the society and world he's living on, and then he wants to bring books back. This shows how Clarisse changes him and Bradbury admires her for changing him.
As for Beatty, Bradbury has a negative tone towards him. He has a negative tone towards him because in a way Beatty is the villain in this story. Beatty wants to stop the protagonists task. Beatty figures out that Montag has books at his house so he wants to burn his house. The author makes him sound like a bad guy with all the smoking and burning books and how he's so against books. Bradbury's tone is also ironic because Beatty wants to burn all the books that still exist, but he's one of the people that know a lot about them. Not only does he burn them, but also is against them and says that they're bad for the world.
All in all, Ray Bradbury's tone for Clarisse, which is positive and admiration, concludes to the reader that Clarisse is a good girl with no bad intentions. In the other hand, the tone for Beatty changes with being negative and ironic. Bradbury's tone is shown by his use of diction.
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