In a paragraph of at least three sentences, explain the mood of this excerpt from little brother. provide details from the text to support your answer. i wanted to stick my head between my knees. "listen jolu, that was really stupid of me. i did it at like two in the morning. i was just crazy when it was happening. i—" i couldn't explain it. yeah, he was right, and that was the problem. it had been two in the morning but i could have talked to jolu about it the next day or the next. i hadn't because i'd known what he'd say—that it was an ugly hack, that i needed to think it through better. jolu was always figuring out how to turn my 2 am ideas into real code, but the stuff that he came out with was always a little different from what i'd come up with. i'd wanted the project for myself. i'd gotten totally into being m1k3y.

Answer and explanation:

By definition, mood is the atmosphere created by an author in order to provoke certain feelings and an emotional response in readers. Setting, imagery, and diction are very helpful in creating the mood. Words that define the mood of a literary work are usually associated with feelings: happiness, fear, tranquility etc.

In the paragraph we are analyzing here, the word choice helps create the anxious and regretful mood. The narrator stutters when talking to another character, not being able to apologize properly. We can tell he feels sorry for something that was said at 2 a.m. He regrets having even suggested a certain idea, and is nervous about being forgiven and understood by Jolu -- "Listen Jolu, that was really stupid of me. I did it at like two in the morning. I was just crazy when it was happening. I—"

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”