Tone and Mood

The story "Earth on Turtles Back," has a sense of  tone and mood. The tone, or the authors attitude toward the characters, the sublect and or the audience, is encouraging. The story gives off a feeling of happiness that even the smallest animal can do something great with determination. Also, the story gives you hope, that the chief's wife will live and the animals will create land for their people to stand on. The mood, or emotional state of the reader, is also happy. People feel comfort that the little muskrat saved the pregnant wife of the chief, so in the end they can all live happily ever after.