Eugenia W. Collier and Harper Lee both use imagery to create a hopeless mood in the excerpt from “Marigolds” and To Kill A Mockingbird In “Marigolds” the author tells of her hometown. She says that all she remembers “is the dust-the brown crumbly dust”. The fact that all she can remember about her hometown is the dust that was there, means it was the most prominent part of her childhood. The dust, being the only thing she remembers, makes the readers think that her hometown was empty. Thus creating a hopeless mood because there was nothing in that town, just a barren desert. Similarly, in To Kill A Mockingbird the author tells of a place called Maycomb. She tells of how the people “ambled across the square”. The people the author describes