Tone

In the novel Anna and the French Kiss the author Stephanie Perkins sets two types of tones in the writing, optimistic and a funny tone. Being a love novel you can feel that the tone that the author is using is optimistic because it makes you feel like something good is going to happen. It makes you believe and want something good is going to happen in between Anna and St. Clair's relationship. However the author manages to not make it so easy so she adds major obstacles and confusion in between them. Which at one point aggravate you as you are expecting it to be this way and it ends up being another way. The optimistic tone continues thought out the who book hoping and wishing something must happen in between them. Perkins leaves you with the sense of wanting to share the secrets of the main characters so they can finally be together.

The tone funny introduced when Anna and St. Clair meet, their perfect friendship. The humor the author adds to their friendship makes the reader want to have what the protagonists are living. Humor is just the extra touch the book has that transports the reader into the Anna's life in Paris.