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The passage describes a room with a wardrobe containing old items like a desk, boots, and a whisk broom. It also mentions a photograph and a broken window. The reader can imagine the setting and understand what the character is doing. The wardrobe is big and the character, Von Rumpel, is holding a pistol. The wardrobe has hidden trails and Von Rumpel is curious about what's inside. There is a mysterious chime and Von Rumpel gets nervous. The passage sets the tone and describes the setting, character development, and the atmosphere of the scene. The passage I picked was in the wardrobe page 461. What is this room? The big mirrors on the wardrobe doors and spotted black with age, and an old leather boot stand beneath a little desk, and a whisk broom hangs for a peg. On the desk stands a photograph of a boy and breeches on a beach at dusk. Beyond the broken window hangs a windless night, ashes swirling to light. The voice filtering through the ceilings repeat itself. The brain is locked in total darkness of course, children, and yet the world is constructed. Lowering in pitch and warping as the batteries die, the lesson flowing as though the young man is exhausted and then it stops. This passage allows the reader to kind of imagine what it would be like going into the woods or woods on Wimble and kind of understand more what's happening in the book. By using descriptive words, I believe it's like creating the setting. By using words like old leather boots stand beneath a little desk, and a whisk broom hangs for a peg. It's kind of explaining what's outside and like not in the wardrobe, so like what Von Rumpel is like standing in right now. And then it kind of goes beyond the broken window hangs a windless night, so it's obviously nighttime and he's explaining the night. And then the passage goes on to say, heart galloping, head failing, kindling one hand, pistol in the other, Von Rumpel turns again to the wardrobe. Kind of explaining how he's standing where he is and like what he's doing and what he's holding. Big enough to climb inside, how did such a monstrosity thing ever get up to the sixth floor? So obviously it's like explaining how big the wardrobe is and the size of it. He brings the candle closer and sees in the shadows of the hanging shirts what he missed on previous inspections. Trails through the desk made by fingers or knees or both. With a barrel of his pistol, he nudges the clothes, how deep does it go? So obviously it's a pretty big wardrobe that goes in deeply. He leans all the way inside and as he does, he hears a chime, wind bells twinkling both above and below. The sound makes him jerk backward and he nods his head on the top of the wardrobe and the candle falls and Von Rumpel lands on his back. He watches the candle roll, its flame pointing up. Why? What curious principle demands that a candle flicker always towards the sky. So obviously this wardrobe is huge and weird things are happening inside of it. When he enters, I believe it's showing the craft of what the writer likes to write about. It's descriptive words because in the whole entire book, the author has to write about what either Mary Lore is seeing, Warren is seeing and how we can pretend to be with them. I think it's helpful to understand where we are as well as using the time of day. He does it as well. He always explains if it's light out or dark. Obviously in this passage it's dark and at night. It also describes how Von Rumpel has a pistol with him. He's always holding out a gun and that's his character development as well. He's a very war type of person and has to carry a weapon to keep him safe. Him using it is what his character is about as well. Also another character development is when he explains how church bells are ringing or some sort of bell is ringing and Von Rumpel steps back as he gets a little bit nervous. It could develop how he could be jumpy and since the wardrobe is deep and unknown, it's something that he doesn't know what's going to be inside and a little bit of a mystery. It also explains how the only light source Von Rumpel has is the candlelight. I think this whole passage altogether just explaining what's around the wardrobe, what's going on outside the wardrobe, what's going on inside the wardrobe, brings the passage together and sets the tone for what you're going to be reading about. Why he's in there in the first place, what he's going to do in there, gives you a whole description of the setting and what's going to be happening. You can connect it to a situation that happens and you can understand oh it's night, it's this, it's that. You're able to understand how it will be working and that he is in this weird, cold, darky setting in a wardrobe that might get a little bit creepy for him.