Respuesta :

it could be said the tone was quiet and or sad

Answer:

The words "crime" and "denunciation" reveal the author's outrage toward the wasting of food.

Explanation:

Passage from Grapes of Wrath-

"There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot."