Examples Of Suspense In Cujo

Stephen King, the author of Cujo, presents his book on a frightening level of suspense that Lewis Teague, the director of Cujo, a movie based on King’s novel, complements wonderfully. Lewis Teague stays true to Stephen’s book, occasionally adding his own twist to it.

In Cujo by Stephen King, the author uses third-limited omniscient view to enhance the level of suspense in the story. The author adds several details that talks about Donna’s feeling and thoughts when she sees Cujo and how she reacts to it. At the beginning of the story when Donna sees Cujo, “there was no contact between her brain and her legs. That twisted gray filament running down the core of her spine had shut of the signals.” This tells me that when Donna saw Cujo, her brain was telling her to do things but her body and legs refused to move. From this, we know what she is thinking at the time she saw Cujo. This adds suspense to the story because we now know that she has been paralyzed with fear and isn’t able to move. We are

For example, when Dickens states “The accused, who was (and who knew he was) being mentally hanged, beheaded, and quartered, by everybody there, neither flinched from the situation, nor assumed any theatrical air in it. He was quiet and attentive….” on page forty-seven, it causes the reader to visualize what the accused person is seeing as people are staring at him in the courtroom. It also causes the reader to feel and understand the accused person’s emotions and pain as the trial begins due to him understanding that everyone in the court room see him as the guilty

W.W. Jacobs creates suspense using a mysterious monkey’s paw. Ricky Lewis Jr. attempted to create similar suspense using different techniques. As told in the story in the book,”He took the paw, and dangling it between his forefinger and thumb, suddenly threw it upon the fire. White, with a slight cry, stooped down and snatched it off. ”Better let it burn,” said the soldier solemnly. “If you don’t want it, Morris,” said the other, “give it to me.”.”I won’t said his friend doggedly.”I threw it on the fire. If you keep it, don’t blame me for what if happens. Pitch it on the fire like a sensible man.”(Jacobs,108) Therefore, W.W. Jacobs fundamentally builds suspense with the dialogue between Morris, who owned the paw initially, and Mr. White, who was interested and curious on what the paw had to offer.

In the story, “Cujo,” the author Stephen King writes a thriller story about a mother, Donna Trenton, and her four-year-old boy, Tad, fighting to survive while stranded in their car in the middle of a heat wave, with help nowhere to be found. The mother and son are surrounded by a St. Bernard named Cujo, that was bitten by a wild animal and has become rabid, out for blood. Stephen King uses third person point of view to reveal Donna’s thoughts and emotions to create suspense. The author uses third person point of view by using pronouns like he, she, it or they. Stephen King uses third person point of view by telling how Donna is feeling and what Donna’s thoughts are.

Based on the descriptions and events in this excerpt. I can infer that the title character, Cujo, has turned rabid and he is out to look for blood. I can also infer that his eyes are red and watery with thick substance leaking from it. Finally, I can infer that he has already killed his owner because he had mud and blood all over him. This was all stated in paragraphs 10 and 11, "The dog's eyes settled on hers. They were red and rheumy. They were leaking some viscous substance. The dog seemed to be weeping gummy tears. His tawny coat was caked and matted with mud and— Blood. is that..." All of this evidence told me that Cujo is rabid and has already killed his owner.

Tension and uncertainty caused by the unknown is the meaning of suspense. In “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs suspense is found. During “The Monkey’s Paw” by Jacobs suspense is created through setting, irony, and foreshadowing. Much suspense is caused by these story elements.

In the short story "Through the Tunnel", Doris Lessing describes the adventure of Jerry, a young English boy trying to swim through an underwater tunnel.  Throughout the story, the author uses the third person omniscient point of view to describe the boy's surroundings and to show us both what he and the other characters are thinking and what is happening around them.  By using this point of view, the author is able to describe the setting of the story, give a detailed description of the characters, and make the theme visible.

“Hidden by the night, we move quickly, without speaking.” (page 138) This quote is an example of suspense. This is an example of suspense because one of the ways suspense is created is by setting, where in this quote the setting is night. Also something that make this quote suspenseful is the fact that they don't have a clue where they are

A third-person narration story is a separation or indirect involvement of a narrator with the action of a story, and this type of narration can influence the content and the theme of a story. A third-person storyteller can sometimes be all-seeing, also known as omniscient, or they can be limited meaning to adhere firmly to the viewpoint of a specific character or characters. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s “Harrison Bergeron” are two good examples of third-person point of view stories. These two stories give the authors the liberty to influence their content and theme across to readers using third-person narration without being biased.

In the story the reader gets a feel for what Mollie is experiencing during her day as her husband Gerald. Charlotte Perkins Gilman does an amazing job getting her point across using the third-person limited omniscient point of view. At the end of the story Gerald is now conscious of new views and feelings about women that he never had before. Without Gilman’s use of the third-person limited omniscient point of view the reader wouldn’t have gotten that much out of the

The narrator will not start talking about things that other people have seen or heard. For example, let's say that Faith saw something but Goodman did not see it or hear it, we will never hear about it because it is only from Goodman's viewpoint. What is also good about having a limited omniscient narrator is that they are not subjective. A first-person narrator is very subjective because they are with one sole character and agree with everything that character has to say because they are always in their minds. A third-person limited omniscient is always with one character, but can also get out of the character's mind and tell it from a narrator's point of view. For example, "They did so; and, by the blaze of the hell-kindled torches, the wretched man beheld his Faith, and the wife her husband, trembling before that unhallowed altar" (344). This is a great example of what I was talking about. He calls Goodman Brown a wretched man which would only happens because it is in third-person omniscient point of view.

O’Connor uses the limited omniscient point of view in the story so that the reader learns more

In “An Orange Line Train to Ballston” is written in third person omniscient. The symbolic significance is that the subway lines are orange and blue, Washington, D.C., and both trains will take Marvella “Velle” where she needs to go in the city. Marvella is the protagonist, a single woman with three children to support, “Marvin (oldest), Marcus, and Avis,” (105). Her mornings are spent on the “Stadium-Armory sub-way platform” (105), taking her children to school before heading to work, at “C&P Telephone Company,” (108). She sees her “day as blocks of time,” (108 and 115), trying to find the right connection. “She entered the building at 12th and H, and the second block began,” (108). It did not matter “if they took the orange line, which

The narrator in the story “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield, is telling us this story in the third person singular perspective. Our narrator is a non-participant and we learn no details about this person, from a physical sense. Nothing to tell us whether it is a friend of Miss Brill, a relative, or just someone watching. Katherine Mansfield’s Miss Brill comes alive from the descriptions we get from this anonymous person. The narrator uses limited omniscience while telling us about this beautiful Sunday afternoon. By this I mean the narrator has a great insight into Miss Brill’s perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and into her world as a whole, but no real insight into any of the other characters in this story. By using this point of view,