In literature there are a lot of things needed to make a good piece of writing. Tone is one of those things. A good tone is making it believable enough to where it isn't incredibly silly. Or it may seem very real. That is the case in both "Marigolds" and "The Scarlet Ibis." Both "Marigolds," by Eugenia Collier, and "The Scarlet Ibis," by James Hurst have a tone of regret.

The tone in "The Scarlet Ibis," is regretful. It is very apparent when the narrator says, "It's strange that all this is still so clear to me now that the summer has long since fled and time has had it way.(316)" The words he uses such as strange and fled seem more sad or sorrowful than words like weird or passed. The grammar he also uses seems like a slower more depressed or regretful when he says, ."..long...