Sherwood Anderson's paragraph

The tone in Devon is very boring in the winter session. Unlike the summer session, which is more fun, the fall session, is colder, darker and windier making the atmosphere very gloomy. In the winter, kids don’t go outside to the park, one stays inside to keep away from the cold. In the summer everybody was outside giving the school a more alive atmosphere. Also, in the winter session there are many more people, taking away the peace. In the summer all of the teachers stayed in the school but in the winter, the younger, cooler teachers left. After most of the cooler teachers left, they left behind the stricter ones. Because of this all of the school traditions were forgotten.

“I knew, perhaps I alone knew, that this was all false. Devon had slipped through their fingers during the warm overlooked months. The traditions had been broken, thestandards let down, all rules forgotten.”

Because of all the broken traditions, there was no more fun in school. Everything was now all strict. People couldn’t play around as often, no more secret societies and no more things that people look up to in a boarding school. The tone of the winter session in Devon is very boring because there is nothing fun in the school any more. There are no more “cool teachers,” no more old traditions, no more free time outside.