Tone and Mood

The tone of my independent novel Give a Boy a Gun is mostly anger and rage. An example of this would be "Sam Flach will die slowly. I will shoot him in one knee, then the other, then a gut shot so he'll have no friggin doubt where he's going. And he will stare up at me with fear in his eyes he has never known, and I will pull that friggin barrel right against his forehead and say "Gee sorry, Sam," then blow his friggin brains out "(Strasser 41). The mood of this book would be sad and ashamed. An example of this would be "Everyone thinks about suicide when they're a teenager. At least, almost everyone I know. It's just, like, something really crappy happens and you're in this horrible pain, and what's the point?" (Strasser 52). This shows mood since when i read it I felt really sad and sorry for those kids that feel this and made me ashamed that people would cause other people's lives to be this miserable. There is no point in my book so far where a character has swayed the beliefs of others, but one of the main characters Gary's mom tried to sway his beliefs by taking him to a psychologist but it didn't work because he was still kind of depressed and didn't persuade him any differently. She didn't really use a tone so maybe if she used a more caring and worried tone it might have impacted her persuasiveness not to kill himself.