How Does W. F. Harvey Create 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.

Have you ever read a book that continued to keep you interested in what's going to happen next? You get lost in the book trying to figure out what's going to happen before reading on. This happens often in novels that have a lot of suspense like Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” or Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters In The Snow.” The fact that they both have suspense is often the only similarity people can think of. There are many similarities and differences in them both that get ignored such as similarities and differences in the plot, theme, and characters.

Don't you feel weird when you image stuff and actually see it in real life? In “ August Heat “ by W. F. Harvey the genre of suspense short story is fiction, horror, and mystery. In the beginning of the story, our main character James Clarence Whitecroft begins to draw his own image. Later through the story, he counters that it and seems awkward to him. The author of this book uses three different types of suspense to create this story. W.F. Harvey created a suspense in “ August Heat “ by use of the setting, foreshadowing, and point of view to give an attention and to find out what will happen next. This story gets really interesting when James does not expect the unexpected.

In both the excerpts "Jams" and "Swimming with Nightmares" by Peter Benchley, the author creates suspense in many ways. The author utilizes descriptive words, character's choices, and dangerous situations for creating suspense.

How do authors write stories that make you want to read on? This is called suspense. Authors use different kinds of suspense techniques to keep the reader engaged in the story. The short story, “Lather and Nothing Else,” by Hernando Tellez is about a barber who has a hard time deciding whether or not to kill Captain Torres, the rebel executioner. The barber thinks that killing the Captain will make him a murderer, but a hero at the same time. Hernando Tellez creates suspense by foreshadowing, showing the character’s thoughts, and by using descriptive words.

Foreshadowing is a vital ingredient to any suspenseful story. It hints at the idea that something is off-kilter, without ever revealing exactly what that something is. This leaves readers with an uneasy feeling about the plot, but they can’t quite figure out why. Because of that suspicious feeling, readers are left with a burning desire to find out what happens on the next page. Foreshadowing can be achieved many different ways, such as through eree names, unpleasant conversations, and odd occurrences.

In the story, “August Heat” various acts are considered to compose it suspenseful. Therefore, the focus in which is has to generate this story shocking is the benefit of foreshadowing. To explain, these are the details given or hints which suggest events that will occur later in the plot. In partial cases, this can lead to show what awaits for a character. Consequently, as in an illustration, the text says, “There was something unnatural, uncanny, in meeting

Edgar Allan Poe uses irony to create suspense in "The Cask of Amontillado," to create a dark, dangerous short story. The protagonist, Montresor, plans to seek revenge on Fortunato, who insulted him, by killing him. Poe uses dramatic irony in the first paragraph by writing that Montresor is planning to kill Fortunato and get away with murdering him. The example of dramatic irony creates suspense, due to only the reader and Montresor knowing that Montresor is premeditating Fortunado's murder. Verbal irony is utilized to create suspense when Poe writes of Montresor and Fortunado making toasts, and Montresor saying, "And I to your long life" to Fortunado (Poe 347). Completely aware that he is going to murder Fortunado, yet Montresor toasts to Fortunado's

In the sources the authors talk about suspense in stories they write. The suspense in the story could be how the author doesn’t give full detail or description on one or more characters. In the source “How do horror writers create suspense” by Percy D’Aco it shows that many horror stories often revolve around mayhem and the stuff in nightmares, and that great horror story often reflects a person’s biggest fear. Often authors like to keep the readers in suspense to scare them or make them want to keep reading and see how the story ends.

In the short story, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery O'Connor uses a lot of suspense. Suspense allows the reader to get more absorbed in the story because if the readers were told what’s going to happen, it prevents the reader to do some thinking of their own about what’s going to happen next. Some ways O’Connor brings suspense into the essay is by using foreshadowing and dialogue. O’Connor uses foreshadowing to add suspense into the story. One way O’Connor uses foreshadowing is when the family is going to the house with the secret panel and the road they were traveling on “...looked like no one had traveled on it in months”(O’Conor pg.5).

The writer must know what information to dole out and what to withhold. It’s the withholding of information that creates suspense, but the writer must also play fair with the reader. Give the reader enough to form educated guesses about what comes next.

In the short horror story “August Heat” by W.F. Harvey, a man by the name of James Clarence describes his lonely life, and he describes how he makes a living. James is a man with an imagination. He has no family, he spends time drawing. He calls himself an artist, but he clearly states the fact that he does not make much money out of his drawings. In the opening scene of the story, James draws a man he had never seen before. He drew this man using only his imagination. The man was a big, bulky, man with an angry face. The man in the picture was in trial for a crime he committed. In the scene of the drawing, the criminal was facing the judge as he received his sentence. For some strange reason he put the drawing in his pocket, as if the universe were telling him, his drawing was a twist of fate. From the moment on James faced a series of event that lead to final destination which. Every single event created more suspense, starting from foreshadows, to Imagery, all the way to the final moments of suspense.

In recent decades, Cormac McCarthy has staked his claim as one of the all-time titans of American literature through publishing masterpieces like Blood Meridian, Suttree, and The Road. In his works his advanced level of technical mastery becomes apparent through his expertly harmonized coordination of literary elements toward certain narrative ends, such as the generation of suspense. In this light, McCarthy’s literary style is a practical one, in that he organizes literary elements in his works toward actualizing particular goals. In The Road, for instance, McCarthy directs his style throughout the text so as to maximize the feeling of suspense that readers experience throughout the book. This kind of stylistic maneuvering is expressed on pages 105-110 and pages 118-123 of the the text. But, it must be noted here that the generation of suspense in these passages does not result from similar stylistic approaches. McCarthy uses style in differently in Passage A and Passage B but ultimately toward the same end, namely generating suspense for readers of The Road. Passage A relies on dialogue to develop its suspense, whereas the style of Passage B relies on narrative action for its suspense.

The Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things, a thrilling, science-fiction series, keeps viewers’ eyes glued to the screen with its nail-biting suspense scenes. The filmmakers use contrasting camera movements and powerful lighting techniques to create suspense throughout the pilot episode. The opening scene immediately grabs the viewer’s attention with the use of a slow zoom-in shot towards a dark door. Behind this door could be anything, and the suspense of finding out what it is leaves the audience hooked. This suspense continues even after the door bursts open to reveal a man in a labcoat, because of the perfectly timed point of view shots throughout this scene. As the man looks backwards while

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