 What is the overall shift in tone from the start of the passage to the end of the passage?
In the last hours the star ahead had grown brighter by many magnitudes, and had changed its color from a dazzling blue through white to the normal yellow, of a GO sun. The great chamber, a full cross-section of the vessel, had been at first a fuel hold. At the voyage's beginning eighty per cent of the fifteen-hundred-foot cylinder had been engines and fuel; but as the immense stores were spent and the holds became radioactively safe, the crew had spread out from its original cramped quarters. That was the foreshortening along the time axis of a space ship approaching the speed of light. We go on to Capella; its spectrum, so like our own Sun's, beckons.
 From calm to frantic
 From calm to frantic  From happy to calm  From frenzied to calm  From depressed to hopeful