Tone Techniques: Dances With Wolves :: Dances With Wolves

Tone Techniques Dances With Wolves In his novel, Dances With Wolves, Michael Blake uses several techniques throughout the novel to enhance the shadowiness displayed to the reader. Blake uses subtletys that vary from sad, (war times) to happy (victorious.) Tone weed be defined as the emotion or feeling set(p) upon a reader during a novel/short story. Most times, the tone will change. It can change from sad to dramatic, happy to angry, angry to calm, or basically anything else. Tone is important because it sets the theme, or main feeling for the story. In Dances With Wolves, the tone changes dramatically as the story progresses. In the beginning, Blake gives us a hostile environ handst. The setting is that Dunbar, a drunk army officer, is assigned to a remote trading post near a tribe of Sioux Indians, his sworn enemies. Communications between them are limited, and the Indian tribe describes white men as dumb and useless. The feeling is mutual, too. White men then cons idered Indians as barbaric, uncivilized, and also useless. These two groups of people acted extremely hostile towards each other. exactly that is sure to change. Dunbar only goes out because he wants to see the frontier, or area that hasnt been settled. This just so happens to be Indian land. As the story progresses, Dunbar befriends the tribe, turns against his Northern army, and goes to live with the Sioux. The tone here is a more torrid and friendly environment, because Dunbar realizes that his new friends are more civil than men of his proclaim kind. Things really start to turn around when Dunbars troops puzzle out that he has joined the Sioux. They trap him and beat him, then describe him serve as a slave. Dunbar never ends up going stick out to the white mens army. The way that Blake presents the overall use of tone in this story only makes it more intriguing and exciting. I trust the idea that is most prevalent in this novel is a mood of courage, shown mostly by the Indians, but mainly through John Dunbar. Towards the centerfield of the story, we find a tone of romance through John and Stands With a Fist.