anchor: Besides, in another mood, he writes, It seemed to me that I was surrounded by braveries without number, that I had been inducted into a phalanx of the wildly-alive-even-if-dying, and I felt honored that I would, so to speak, die in the company of such people.
positive: He changed his moods every time he writes a paragraph.
negative: His mood remained constant as he wrote each chapter of the book.