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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.07,0:00:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember the black tulips in video one?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.04,0:00:11.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They likely evoke within you\Nan emotional experience or image.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.38,0:00:14.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm referring here to the idea of mood.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.42,0:00:18.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mood refers\Nto both the atmosphere of the story
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.38,0:00:20.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the effect of the story on the reader.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.75,0:00:24.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mood is communicated subtly\Nthrough tools like setting.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.06,0:00:28.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now think about how you felt when you were\Nreading the excerpt from The Road.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.33,0:00:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of you probably felt\Nuneasy, depressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.13,0:00:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps you felt a sense of bleakness,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.97,0:00:36.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I guarantee that some of you did not.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.14,0:00:40.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's magical about mood\Nis that it exists in that important space
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.91,0:00:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between what a writer puts on the page\Nand how the reader receives it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.61,0:00:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's an example.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.85,0:00:50.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For some reason, my mother and I have seen\Na lot of Chekov plays together.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.77,0:00:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite the fact that my mother\Nkind of hates Chekov,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.25,0:00:55.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every time we see a play,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.67,0:00:59.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she emerges super depressed\Nand feeling like life is meaningless.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.19,0:01:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I, for some reason, feel buoyed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.56,0:01:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it's because I already \Nthought life was meaningless,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.32,0:01:07.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I feel validated or affirmed.\NWho knows?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.35,0:01:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The point is, we have seen the same play,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.54,0:01:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listen to the same words being spoken,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.70,0:01:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet the emotional response\Nevoked in each of us is unique,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.84,0:01:17.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's how it should be.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.18,0:01:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You cannot control\Nthe reader's experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.91,0:01:23.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can only do your best\Nto help them experience your vision.