Read the excerpt from "The People Could Fly.”Sarah couldn’t stand up straight any longer. She was too weak. The sun burned her face. The babe cried and cried, "Pity me, oh, pity me,” say it sounded like. Sarah was so sad and starvin, she sat down in the row.

The sun burns Sarah’s face, and she is too weak and starving to keep standing. The crying babe and Sarah’s sadness create a tragic mood, while the burning sun makes the scene hot. So “hot and tragic” best describes the excerpt; it is not cold, quiet, damp, or dark.

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