What is the author's tone in No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court by Edward Humes?

No Matter How Loud I Shout is a complex mixture of the emotions that the stories Humes relates arouse within him. He describes a sense of heartbreak, wonder and scandal all of which are manifested in the tone of the book throughout. The heartbreak comes through particularly strong when Humes describes the fates of the students in his writing class when they are sentenced in adult court for long terms for crimes they committed long ago. Often his kids grow and change such that he genuinely believes that they have changed and are not longer a danger to society.