Theory written correctly : 2/2 Book 1: quoted evidence 2/2 paraphrased scene 1/1 explanation .1/1 Book1: quoted evidence 2/2 paraphrased scene 1/1 explanation 1/1 Book 2: quoted evidence 2/2 paraphrased scene 1/1 explanation 1/1 Book2: quoted evidence 2/2 paraphrased scene 1/1 explanation 1/1 18/18 Scenes in books are created by the author in order to set the mood. Book 1: The Phantom Tollbooth Evidence: "Mile after mile after mile after mile, and everything became grayer and more monotonous. Finally the car just stopped altogether, and, hard as he tried, it wouldn't budge another inch. "I wonder where I am," said Milo in a very worried tone. "You're...in..the..Dol...drums," wailed a voice that sounded far away." Scene in own words: As Milo drives up to the Doldrums in The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, he finds himself in a very moody enviornment. He hears a voice wailing and his car stops, finding himself in the Doldrums. In the Doldrums, there are many Lethargarians, or people who do nothing. When Milo asks what they do, one replies: "Anything as long as it's nothing, and everything as long as it isn't anything." How it sets the mood: This setting sets the mood because, according to m-­w.com, the doldrums mean a state or period in which there is no activity or improvement. The author uses this play on words to set the mood of doing nothing. All the characters in that place do nothing, which is very boring so the author used a play on words. Book 1: The Phantom Tollbooth "The higher they went, the darker it became, though it wasn't the darkness of night, but rather more like a mixture of lurking shadows and evil intentions which oozed from the slimy moss-­covered cliffs and blotted out the light. A cruel wind shrieked through the rocks and the air was thick and heavy, as if it had been used several times before. On they went, higher and higher up the dizzying trail, on one side the sheer stone walls and brutal peaks towering above them, and on the other an endless, limitless, bottomless nothing." Scene in own words: As Milo and company climb up the Mountains of Ignorance in The Phantom Tollbooth to rescue the princesses Rhyme and Reason, like the Hobbit, it greets them with darkness and horrible scenery. Stone walls tower over them, a cruel wind strikes the rocks, and the air becomes thicker and thicker. How it sets the mood: Darkness sets a creepy mood for the Mountains of Ignorance. The author goes into great detail about how bad and large this mountain is. Thick air, oozing darkness, and the lack of light all set up a creepy mood and atmosphere for the Mountains of Ignorance. This mountain needs a creepy mood b/c there is alot of fighting there in the story. Book 2: The Hobbit Evidence: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-­hole, and that means comfort. It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tubeshaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats -­ the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill -­ The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it -­ and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-­rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-­hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-­set round windows looking over his garden and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river." Scene in own words: In The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkein starts off the book by introducing a hobbit named Bilbo and his home. This home is unlike any other home, being built inside a hole. The comfortable feel of Bilbo's home contrasts greatly with the large and terrible environments of the latter parts of the book. How it sets the mood: The comfortable mood is set by the feeling of home and perfection. The hobbit's home is described very well to set the feeling of a real person's home, but with a touch of oddity. His home is warm and comfortable. It certainly feels like home in Bilbo's home, but it certainly doesn't in the Lonely Mountain. Book 2: The Hobbit Quote: "Still more suddenly a darkness came on with dreadful swiftness! A black cloud hurried over the sky. Winter thunder on a wild wind rolled roaring up and rumbled in the Mountain, and lightning lit its peak. And beneath the thunder another blackness could be seen whirling forward;; but it did not come with the wind, it came from the North, like a vast cloud of birds, so dense that no light could be seen between their wings." Scene in own words: The Hobbit's later parts are very different in comparison to the earlier parts. As the dwarves and Bilbo finally reach their destination of The Lonely Mountain to claim the dragon Smaug's treasure, the Mountain welcomes them with thunder and a horrible darkness. Lightning lights the Mountain's peak and Bilbo and company are scared. How it sets the mood-­ The Hobbit's Lonely Mountain greets Bilbo and Company with great darkness and thunder. This sets the mood for the later parts of the book, as they are significantly darker than the beginning, where Bilbo is at home. Home is comfortable and Darkness is when Bilbo is in a dangerous. In this part of the book we truly realize how big and dark the Mountain is, setting the mood of darkness.