Directions: Read the quote from the novel (the outsider)
- identify the tone
- choose (3) words or phrases(diction) that helped to create the mood
- explain why you had the emotional reaction you did.

"...We begged and pleaded, but we were getting nowhere until the doctor found out what was going on.
"Let them go in," he said to the nurse. "He's been asking for them. It can't hurt now."
Two-bit didn't notice the expression in his voice. It's true, I thought numbly, he is dying."