Exercise: Setting to show emotion

Task:
In your first description, the person should feel anxious, worried, tired, frustrated, and generally negative. In your second description, the person should feel optimistic, lighthearted, pleased. You convey this entirely through the way the objects and atmosphere are described. You can't change the details of the setting itself.

 Justin:
 Looking up into nearly cloudless sky, Justin wished, for the sixth time that morning that it would begin to rain. As his father drove onto a lot so full it would take ten minutes park their SUV and walk back to the entrance,  the lines "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" were fading out. Turning the engine off, blue doors slid open and size six feet bounced upon a faded flier for Six Flags. Ripping under her feet, Caroline ran towards her brother. "Isn't this fun? Bobby said Superman is really fast!" Glancing down, he simply replied, "No," before walking ahead. While their mother reassuring her, Johnathan sprinted towards the yellow flagpole by which his son now stood, "Don't mess this up for your sister; it's her birthday, and she's been excited about this for months." Shrugging the hand off his shoulder, "You don't even remember do you? Guess I'll just sit on a hot bench for four hours, not like I can do anything else." Taken aback by the hostility, "What is that supposed to mean?" "Nothing," Justin replied, eyes toward the ground, slightly shaking his head, "You haven't listened in three months, why should you care now?"




Amelia:
Driving underneath a perfectly clear sky, Amelia began to tap her hand along the wheel as she sang along to sing along to The Hollies. Though voices were off key, their lips were upturned as her daughter joined in, "But I'm strong / Strong enough to carry him / He ain't heavy, he's my brother...." Pulling into a crowed parking lot, Amelia glanced in her rear-view mirror and said, "Looks like we'll get some exercise today, huh, kiddo?" Amber's nose wrinkled before she sneezed; then,  giggling, the newly turned eight year old replied, "Uh huh," as she nodded her head. Finishing the song's final lines, her mother blue SUV was turned off, and opened the door. Size six feet jumped down on a park flier, which tore from the girl's desire to rush towards the gate. After walking for almost ten minutes, the pair rested for a moment beside the yellow flag. Glancing down towards her daughter, she wondered how much of this trip Amber would remember in years to come. Knowing they had planned their Six Flags adventure for almost three months, she asked, "You ready?"

Extra Info:
When I wrote about Justin, I thought about a character who, as a young kid, when on a school field trip to a theme park and had gotten stuck on roller coaster. Even though it wasn't for very long, it made him afraid to go back the coaster, but he doesn't want to admit his fear. The seventy's music was chosen for Amelia's personality (though it could also be somewhat applied to Johnathan), but the particular song was to proved (a tiny piece of) situational irony in Justin's tale.