How Does The Sniper Build Suspense

Suspense is defined as the author withholding information or when the unexpected happens, leaving you guessing and wanting more. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, he has inserted much suspense in this short (long) story, for the reason that it makes the reader want to know more and having to mindset of excitement or surprise. Another reason he added many suspense is so that it wouldn’t be so blunt, it wouldn’t just tell us what happened it would give us details and how he got or how he did that and more.

One feature that created suspense in the story was time. In the “Tell-Tale Heart”, time often seemed to speed up or slow down. One example of time movely slowly in the passage is: “I moved slowly-- very, very slowly, so I might not disturb the old man’s sleep”. You almost sense the deliberate movements of narrator. In contrast, the phrase: “The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence”, shows that time is advancing quickly; you could almost see the moon vanishing and the narrator’s quick movements. These “time warps” adds suspense, anticipation, and a growing sense of horror to the story and encourages the reader to continue reading.

The main character in The Sniper was in a fire fight. He shot and killed 3 people. After the fire fight he started to dwell on what he did .In the story it said, “The lust of battle dies in him. He became bitten by remorse.” As a result, “he looked at the smoking revolver in his hand, and with an oath he hurled it to the roof at his feet. The revolver went off… The bullet whizzed past the sniper’s head.” Because of him dwelling, he almost killed himself.

The other sniper is situated on a building on the other side of the street as the Republican Sniper. On top of being shot at, an armored car, of the opposing side, drives up near the Republican sniper’s position. He believes that his position was given up by a local woman who was walking around. The Republican sniper must kill this woman or his life will be in jeopardy. The Republican sniper takes the shot, and kills the woman. However, even after killing the woman, the Republican Sniper is still being shot at. He has to shelter himself, so, making his way to the top floor of the building, he situates himself. The Republican sniper proceeds to have a shootout with the other unknown sniper. The Republican sniper needs a way to kill his opponent, so he devises an ingenious plan. He fakes his death by pretending to be shot in the head. The opposing sniper, thinking he had killed the Republican sniper, makes his way out of his hiding spot. This exposes him, and the Republican sniper has a clear shot. The Republican sniper takes the shot, and sees the body of his opponent falling to the ground. The Republican sniper then goes to examine the dead body of his opponent, and to his horrifying realization, discovers that the man he had just outwitted and killed, was really his brother.

Another technique Tellez uses to add suspense into his story is setting time constraints on the barber which pressures him to decide to kill the captain, if necessary. When the barber is deciding whether or not to kill the captain he realizes, “the soap is drying and he needs to hurry”(Tellez 2) which pressurizes the barber to act quickly and adds suspense to his decision. As the barber realize he only has minutes to take a decision it creates suspense by keeping readers guessing what will happen next. This helps build the theme that you should always think before you act. As the author mentions the theme in the story he uses suspense to make sure that readers understand the theme

The first way the author creates suspense in the story is by foreshadowing. When Captain Torres walked into the barber’s shop, the barber, “Started to shake,” (Tellez 1) indicating that the barber felt instant fear, when his enemy approached. This foreshadows that the barber knows the man and that he will be deciding to kill him or not. Foreshadowing creates suspense because it is a clue given to the reader. It is the reader’s job to guess what is going to happen in the story and that is what makes it interesting. Without foreshadowing the reader won’t be able to prepare what is going to happen next. Another scene where the foreshadowing technique is used was when the barber came up with his reasons to not kill Captain Torres. The barber contemplated in his mind, “Don’t want to stain myself with blood. Just lather, and nothing else,” (Tellez 2) which foreshadows that the barber is not going to commit murder.

Explaining that “ flash might be seen in the darkness, and there were enemies watching,” implying that if he takes the risk to smoke his position might be compromised. Then he could be shot at, injured or even killed. Also, the author adds in this detail over deciding to take a smoke and this creates more suspense, even though he didn’t have too add this detail into the story for us to understand the story, since he did the reader thinks Don’t smoke you could die, it’s a bad idea, and you don’t even need to smoke. This creates more tension between the reader and the main character the sniper leading to more suspense. While “The Flowers” doesn’t develop the suspense just plainly states it. An example of this is “Her heel became lodged in the broken ridge between brow and nose, and she reached down quickly, unafraid, to free herself. It was only when she saw his naked grin that she gave a little yelp of surprise.” This just plainly states she is surprised, it doesn’t describe it in a way of where she was scared or worried, which shows why “The Sniper” demonstrates better suspense then “The flowers.” A way “The Dogs Could Teach Me,” doesn’t develop as good of suspense is where the text, says “As I did, kicked sideways, caught my knee on a sharp snag, and felt the wood enter under the kneecap and tear it loose,” and “I don’t think I passed out

he hesitation or decision-making issue within characters’ mind is regarded as an suspense. In “Just Lather, That’s All ”, the barber struggled in whether or not to kill the enemy who now infront of him. In the end, the barber did not want blood on his hand. Meanwhile, in “The sniper”, two snipers who were from different sides fought against each other in a war. While examining the corpse, the sniper discovered that the enemy was his brother. Also “The Black Cat” narrates the process of the protagonist from normal to committing a crime step-by-step. Internal conflict moves the story’s plot, thought the short stories “Just Lather, That's All”, “The Sniper” and “The Black Cat” respectively.

Whilst reading the story you will feel like it has gone by fast. This has to do with Bacigalupi's writing. He writes in a very fast paced way, but when he needs to slow down and focus on something he will. He also writes with a lot of figurative language which creates a picture of what is happening in the reader's

The author uses pacing throughout the story to help the reader connect to the story. In the story

The development of the characters personalities helped to create suspense. With the development of Jeanine’s character it created suspense by making her attacks feared. Also she was feared because of the simulations, which could make people who were affected commit suicide, which also built the suspense with the fact that they needed to stop

The suspense is made to excite the reader to continue to read and stay interested in the novel. For example, on page 36 the blue Mustang pulls up and Two-bit, Johnny, Marica, Cherry and Ponyboy get scared. The blue Mustang creates a suspense in

The desired anticipation is created through the amplification of specific sound effects. In the scene where a deputy-sheriff is strangled by Chigurh, the viewer is introduced to a distinct progression of sounds. As the deputy-sheriff tussles with Chigurh, his struggle is intensified by the amplification of the soles of his shoes screeching and pummelling against the floor. In the novel, McCarthy builds a similar anticipation where the deputy-sheriff is struggling to stay alive against Chigurh as he is kicking and screaming on the floor, “The deputy was flailing wildly and he’d begun to walk sideways over the floor in a circle, kicking over the wastebasket, kicking the chair across the room. He kicked shut the door and he wrapped the throwrug in a wad about them.

They leave the reader waiting until the very end of the story to be able to figure out what was actually happening. The suspense the authors craft help keep the reader questioning what is actually happening

In one sense, the temporal process of experiencing this story is like that experienced in reading any story. There is nothing remarkable about the fact that we are in suspense throughout the story, led through the action, ignorant as