Mood

   The mood throughout Gathering Blue is consistent with the tone. Lowry doesn't give everything away all at once, which gives me time to build up feelings and really connect with the characters. It makes me feel suspicious. Lowry gives the readers time to truly build a relationship with the characters, and make guesses based on suspicions surrounding certain characters.

These are examples of moods the reader can feel.

    "The scrap told her something of her father --- something important, something that mattered --- but the knowledge entered  her sleep, trembling through like a dream, and in the morning she did not know that it was there at all." This quote gave me suspicions that maybe there was something more to Kira's father's death than Lowry was letting on.
   "Jamison laid the section of robe he'd been examining back down on the table. 'She's very old,' he said firmly. 'It's dangerous for her to speak that way. Her mind is beginning to wander.' Kira looked at him dubiously.For weeks now she had worked with the dyer. The lists of plants, the many characteristics of each, the details of the dyeing procedures, so much complex knowledge; all of it was clear and complete. Kira had seen no sign, no hint of a wandering mind." This quote confirmed my suspicions. Jamison would not have been so firm and fierce if there were truly beasts in the woods.