Orozco's Use Of Tone In Literature

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In a short story, tone is the mood setter of the character's personality, situation, or the seriousness of writing. Tone is extremely crucial to any piece of literature because the tone can not only set up the ethos, logos and pathos, but enhance the overall experience for the reader. Without tone in any piece of literature would be monotonous; just a complete dead piece of work. Tone can help the development of the circumstances and the character’s persona by giving clues to the emotions and thinkings of said characters, and thus, giving credibility to the story. One short story that is a perfect example of tone enhancement can be found in this textbook, Literature and Its Writers by Ann Charter and Samuel Charters, would be the Orientation by Daniel Orozco. …show more content…

This is why it is call the Orientation, going over the workplace’s rules and expectations. However, Orozco’s work makes a normal orientation different by using tone to enhance the character’s persona and the story’s setting to make us aware that this is no ordinary office. By revealing the settings, characters and rules, we, the readers, are able to get an idea on how abnormal this workplace is.
The Orientation raises our hair on the back of our necks. From the start, Orozco presents this narrator, the main character that leads this orientation, and gives a glimpse of how this office is different. The author uses certain phrases like ”Ask too many questions, however, and you may be let go.”(46), to let us, the reader, infer the office’s characteristics to be that of a work driven “machine”, much like the narrator himself. Emotionless, monotone, and too well informed, narrator leads the new worker and explains everything in the office, including the other co-workers, without a filter. This filter, in real life, lets us know what to say or not to say in

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