"The Flood" by: John Steinbeck

"The Flood" in another amazing short story written by John Steinbeck. John Steinbeck uses certain techniques to make this short story amazing. Steinbeck uses Description, Dialogue, and Tone to set the mood in this short story. For Description he uses certain verbs that I really like. One of those verbs are, "sucked" he used sucked to explain how the mountains sucked up the water. Another verb that Steinbeck used was, "full". He used "full" to explain how the mountains were full from sucking all the water up. One last verb that I like was, "whispered". He used whispered to explain how the earth whispered. Steinbeck used personification to help the reader understand more how the earth felt or what the earth did. While Steinbeck wrote the story he used certain dialogues that could help the reader understand more how the people talked then or how they felt. Steinbeck used a certain dialogue that the people from the 1920's used, but he did not use quotation marks while using the accent. Steinbeck probably used this way to let the reader feel more like he/she was in the 1920's and listening to someone tell them the story. In the short story Steinbeck's tone is very solemn and sad. The verbs and the way that he writes the short story is very sad and mournful over the flood.