4th Post on my First Book

The mood of the Day of the Triffids huh....

The overall mood of the Day of the Triffids is gloomy and a bit sad. Although there are times when the book reaches points of excitment and times of serenity, the main character never fails to remind that the world is in a state of crisis which brings the happier modes down to sad and sometimes frustrating. In addition, the mood of the book emphasizes the hopelessness of the whole entire situation the characters find themselves in, with hopes being destroyed at every turn at every corner. Even though the main character did manage to get to the Isle of Wight, because of what happened throughout the story, I find it hard to believe that the colong would last very long.The setting gave the most influence to the mood, while the characters who did so poorly in the mood gave us how we should look upon the situation.
The mood actually kind of saddens me (if not extremely annoyed and almost embarassed) to see how incapable humans are when we are in a tight situation and unity is required. I have read many books in the past but the Day of the Triffids seems to emphasize it greater than a great number of them. This probably is the only thing I believe the author did well in writing this book in addition to depicting the true nature of humans although John Wyndham doesn't come close to John Steinbeck (no offense to the writer ^^;;).