Explain the mood the author creates in paragraph 7. In your response, use words and details from the paragraph that show how the author creates this mood. Write your answer on your answer document.

Annotation: The reader describes the mood as "a very thrilling and suspenseful "one and offers that the author creates suspense "by separating his sentences." In addition the author uses "suspenceful words shuddering and popping" and composes a literal "cliff hanger at the end." All of these ideas are valid and do create a suspenseful mood but could be better explained with examples. "Separating his sentences" could be clarified in a variety of ways. The use of dashes, commas used for effect, and a series of short, choppy sentences create suspense. The diction, shuddering and popping, that connote sound and action add to the tension. The literal "cliff hanger" is the climber anticipating falling from the wall.

Annotation: The reader identifies the mood as "frustration and desperation" and indicates the mood of frustration is an outgrowth of the feelings of the narrator who cannot "rise any higher on the rock wall" and feels "the wall was giving me nothing." The "feelings of no solution and weakness" experienced by the narrator make the reader feel the same way. The "desperate" mood emerges as the narrator tries to get over the rock wall and feels he'll "peel off the wall." The reader explains that the narrator's frustration and desperation extends to the reader, causing the reader to connect with the feelings of the narrator.

Annotation: The reader responds that "fear into the mind of the reader" is the mood. The reader uses text "all my strength to the fingers of my left hand, but they were leaving me" and "unless I could get over it soon, I would just peel off the wall" to support feelings of fear. The reader connects the narrator's fear with the idea of fear built in a reader's mind, "thinking about falling thousands of feet defiantly makes the reader fearful."