How does the author's use of first-person point of view affect the
mood, or emotional atmosphere of the story? In what way is this mood
surprising?

When writing in first-person, the story the author is telling becomes much more personal, and therefore makes readers feel their emotions much more than if a narrator was describing the way a person in the story felt.

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