Response #2-

In the story "The Day I Got Lost" By Isaac Bashevis Singer the tone is very sad because he is so forgetful and he forgets so many little things like in the story when he says" I lose hats, books, umbrellas, rubbers, and above all manuscripts" but, then one time he forgot his address and that resulted in a big conflict. The point of view is first person we know this because Professor Shlemiel is the one talking in the story he is the one telling us what is happening in this story about himself. These things make the reader feel bad for Professor Shlemiel and make them want to help him.

 

In the story "The Dark Brown Dog" By Stephen Crane the tone is very depressing because the poor dog gets beaten by the kid but then the kids starts to like the dog but then the dad kills the dog and the little boy is so sad as it says in the story" On the way to his home the child turned many times and beat the dog, proclaiming with childish gestures that he held him in contempt as an unimportant dog, with no value save for a moment". The point of view in this story is 3rd person because they have a narrator talking about what happened. All of these things made the reader really sad and a little mad and they wanted to help the poor dog.

 

In these story's both of them made the reader kind of sad or depressed. They used tone and point of view to do that by telling us things that  would make us feel that way about a character or about the story. Both the authors did a good job of making us feel a way after reading each of their story's.

 Response #1-

In the article, "Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers and Pentagon” By Serge Schmemann informs and

describes the 9-11 tragedy in 2001 that is the authors purpose for writing this article. The text structure

of this article sequential order and Cause and effect. It is sequential order because it states the event

from first that happened then second. It is cause and effect because it has the cause which is the 9-11

attack and then it states all of the different effect that happened after 9-11. She chose this text structure

because when you are writing about how something happened you should tell it in order and she used

cause and effect so that people would know what happened and how that effected or changed things.

The tone in this article was depressing and shocking.

In the poem "We Breathed You In" By Patti Tana, Patti's purpose was to say that all of the people who

died in 9-11 are still with us and still apart of us. The text structure of this is compare and contrast

because it says "my hand your hand". The tone of this text is depressed and loving. It is depressed

because it is about all of these people that died and are now gone. It is also loving because she is saying

how the are still within us and still in our hearts.

In the Poem "The Names" By Billy Collins, Billy's purpose was to write something dedicated to all of the

victims of September 11 and to their survivors. The text structure in the poem is kind of sequence but

not in time but alphabetically. It is this way because through out the poem it lists some of the same

alphabetically from A-Z. The tone of this poem downcast or sad. It is like this because the poem talks

about how there are so many people dead and how there is not even enough space for all there names

on he walls of the heart.