The End

     It will be as if I never existed, he'd promised me.
     I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then the palms of my hands, and then it was pressed against the skin of my cheek. I hoped that I was fainting, but, to my disappointment, I didn't lose consciousness. The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, puling me under.
     I did not resurface.


     I like how in this passage, the author uses tone to describe the character's feelings. The author used the example of falling, and drowning, which add a dramatic effect, and a sad one. The author is revealing sadness, hopelessness, abandonment, and denial, which give the reader the same feelings. The tome is very depressing, and far from enlightening. I think it a good passage to exemplify tone in writing.