Mood and Atmosphere

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Mood and Atmosphere
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Clarisses (Home)

• Curious
• Physical description 17 years old, dark eyes,
  light, angelic
• Ask questions Do you ever read the books you
  burn?, Asks about Guy- showing TRUE interest, Did
  you know billboards were once 20 feet long?,
  (Cars go so fast that they cant see COLORS, just
  blurs), Did firemen always start fires?
• ARE YOU HAPPY?
• Home lights are on, talking inside

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Guy and Mildreds Home

• Home dark, cold, silent, like a tomb
• NOT EMPTY
• Mildred COLD, like the dead, scary, must have
  sleeping pills

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What do we learn from the mood?

• Society is
• Depressed Mildred has to take sleeping pills
  Overdoses on them not unusual
• Dark and cold
• No one knows anyone Clarisse asks questions,
  she really wants to know him
• Fear of the firemen
• Not curious
• People stay to themselves