Tone Analysis of "Every 23 Minutes"

In "Every 23 Minutes," a non-fiction essay written in current time, the author, Linda Weltner, expresses her feelings toward the deep matter of drinking and driving. Weltner uses a reflective, disappointed tone through the use of rhetorical questions, repetition, and syntax.
<Tab/>In Weltner's essay, she expresses her feelings to the reader with syntax. Intense sorrow is expressed through short statements like "A Wedding" succeeded by "Followed by a funeral." The deep feeling is voiced to the reader with lines like "A heart breaks." The reader then starts to realize how impor…