What is the tone of ”My Grandmother’s Hair?”

Cynthia Rylant's short story "My Grandmother's Hair" is told in a serious, sad and nostalgic tone.

Explanation:

The tone of any story or narration is the emotion that the writer used to express his/ her feelings towards the scene or event. It helps create the atmosphere and mood of the whole story.

Cynthia Rylant's short one-page narration about her mother's hair is a melancholic, nostalgic account of when she used to play with her grandmother's hair. She remembers when she would "lift a lock of her soft, grey hair and make [my] little pink comb slide through it." She also recalls how they would talk about their shared interests, be it "cats, baking-powder biscuits, Sunday school class" etc. All these recollections suggest that she missed those moments, those childhood times when she was with her grandmother.

        its hard for some people to get along and that’s the case for douglass and canot. most of the time when people do not agree with each other its because they have different presperctives, and that is the case here.

captain canot was never a slave so but he was a slaver and a slave ship captain and just like the slave master's he tought it was it was totally normal, he used captain conot is a cruel man who enjoys whipping slaves but never   got whipped he saw it has a destiny for the slave to be a slave and the slaver to be a slaver   but douglass has suffered whoppings cut   even for no reason sometimes. douglass believed that slavery was not natural to black people, they need to study and learn how to read and write. he knew they have rights.

it was really not the captain’s fault he was just brainwashed by the system and when your brainwashed by the system its hard not to be brainwashed. but the reason douglass wants this is because he has suffered he knows how it feels and will do anything to stop that.