Chinua Achebe's Winter Tone

The tone of the winter session at Devon is very boring and routine. One line in the book that really describes the winter session as being boring and comparing it to the summer session as being fun is "It scattered the easygoing summer spirit like so many fallen leaves." Another example of the winter term being boring at Devon was when the students went to shovel out the railroad lines, and Gene described that day by saying "Nothing was very funny that day, the work became hard and unvarying;I began to sweat under my layers of clothes." Also in that section of the book Gene describes the Winter session as being very routine and repetitive, a great example of that was when Gene thought "Continuity was the keynote. The same hymns were played, the same sermon was given, the same announcements were made." Lastly Gene had said that it was the schools one hundred sixty third winter session and thats statement again gives a feel of total repetitiveness.