5. Mood

I think the mood was serious at parts and could also be humorous. It was serious at the parts where he was scamming millions and escaping the police, and humorous at the parts how he conned and fooled the police multiple times.

"This phony rips off several hundred banks, hustles half the hotels in the world for everything but the sheets, screws every airline in the skies, including most of their stewardesses, passes enough bad checks to paper the walls of the pentagon, runs his own goddamned colleges and universities, makes half the cops in twenty countries look like dumb-asses while he's stealing $2 million, and he has a low criminal threshold?" (p. 14) At this part the mood seems almost humorous as he describes how he made the cops look like fools, stole millions, and robbed countless businesses. The man was a pure genius, he was able to fool the best of the best.

"They came at me from all sides then, men in uniform, men in plainclothes and all pointing a pistol, shotgun, machine gun or rifle at me. Orders cracked around my ears like whip pops." (p. 216) At this point in the story the mood shifted to serious, for Frank at least, because at this point is when he gets arrested. At this point it was all over for him, the life of riches, everything was done, he had been caught. He was finally caught by authorities, they had arrested the man who had forged millions of dollars and made them look like fools on several occasions. But never underestimate Frank Abagnale, after be imprisoned he was still able to escape and get back in to the world of being a criminal.

""Frank Abagnale, I am Constable James Hastings, and you are under arrest," said the mountie with a friendly smile." (p. 259) Once again he was arrested, and was held in imprisonment, and once again he was able to escape. He was able to fool the guards into believing that he was a prison inspector and they bought it, and once again he was on the run. This part the mood switched to almost humorous on how he was able to fool the guards and gain his freedom once again. You laugh at how dumb the guards were and wondered how could you not notice, but Abagnale was just that good.