Lord of the Flies: Chapters 9 and 10

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The focus in Chapters 9 and 10 in Lord of the Flies are mood and tone.

Tone is the style in which a piece of literature is written to reflect the author's feelings on a topic.

Mood is the feeling created while reading a piece of literature.

Tone and mood are often studied together because the writer's tone is directly connected to the mood or feeling the writer evokes in the reader — that vibe that sets the atmosphere when you read a piece of literature.

The author's tone and mood can change throughout a work, especially in a longer piece, such as a novel.

For more information on mood and tone, watch the following three videos.

There are many sections of Lord of the Flies where you could focus on tone and mood, but these chapters were specifically chosen because there is a definitive change in the novel's mood over these two chapters.

HINT: Shifts in the setting can also lead to a change in mood. (Keep that in mind as you read!)

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