Chasing Lincoln's Killer Analysis

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The description of the setting is crucial to the mood the author intends to achieve. James L. Swanson, the author of Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, describes the setting is a way that creates a foreboding mood by foreshadowing and decreases the tension of the mood by using descriptive sensory details. The setting works to create a foreboding mood in Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by using descriptive sensory details. An example of this is when the author says, “Terrible winds and thunderstorms had swept through Washington early that morning, dissolving the dirt streets into a sticky muck of soil and garbage.” This creates a foreboding mood because it foreshadows something bad is going to happen from the turbulent storm brewing. This allows the reader

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