Marie Lu Champion

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.

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.

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.

Suspense is a detail that many horror writer use to catch the attention of many readers and keep them holding on till the end. Just as W.F. Harvey does when creating suspense in his story August Heat. Mr. Harvey used three methods to create his suspense for his story, foreshadowing, withholding information, and reversal. With these three methods he is able to make the reader feel like, “ We may even hold our breath without realizing it as we read on eagerly to find out how the story ends”(Source 1).

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.

Between the three stories, “The Dogs Could Teach Me,” “The Flowers,” and “The Sniper.” “The Sniper” demonstrates the best suspenseful text between the three stories. To create a suspenseful story, “The Sniper” develops multiple moments of suspense. For instance one illustration of suspense in “The Sniper” is, “He paused for a moment, considering whether he should risk a smoke. It was dangerous. The flash might be seen in the darkness, and there were enemies watching. He decided to take the risk.” This is a suspenseful moment in “The Sniper” because if the sniper risks to smoke, he will be giving away his position and could be shot at by the enemy's. Another representation of suspense is, “Pressing his lips together, he took a deep breath

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

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By using descriptive words and phrases to help us imagine the characters and setting the readers are drawn further into the suspense. Beginning with the descriptions of the carnival, usually a joyous time, it is not so joyous but mostly dark with the vision of “[dusk] one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival

​The United States of America has had their feet dragged into a number of different wars; The Civil War, fought on home turf, and The Vietnam War, which was the longest war to date. Today, the reason behind both wars is still debated. The debate and vivid actions are accounted in the books Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers and Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt. Across five Aprils is placed in the midst of the 1860 in southern America where slavery and agriculture thrived, Jethro is a 9 year old boy who witnesses the civil war from the sidelines but its affected greatly by it just as much as the communities around him. Richie Perry is a teen soldier in Fallen Angels, who gets shipped to the chaos that is The Vietnam War, 100 years after the

For example, Night, by Elie Wiesel contrasts against A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah in writing style which allows both stories to more heavily emphasize an element of literature. Night chooses to more heavily highlight the events that seem more extreme in nature, causing it to be allows readers to feel as if they had the emotions of the author. For instance, one intense event that allowed the reader to synchronize in emotion with the author was when Eliezer Wiesel was whipped by the SS officer. Elie Wiesel states, “I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip” (Wiesel 57). Through the intensity of the cruel environment Eliezer Wiesel is put in, it allows the readers to empathize and also feel the disgust that Eliezer Wiesel felt towards the SS officer that lashed him. Whereas A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier chooses to include most events through-out the novel to increase its effectiveness in developing the author’s character. This can be seen when the write, Ishmael Beah, states, “I walked for two days straight without sleeping. I stopped only at streams to drink water. I felt as if somebody was after me” (Beah

On page 190 he gets a call from the leader of the Colonies which is the republic's greatest enemy the leader offers him his brother in exchange for peace and wants to meet up with day obviously day would never give up his little brother to save the country, this shows how day's brother brings out the ignorance in day because he won't give up his brother for any thing and if he would just realize how benfital giving his brother away is he could have saved a lot of lifes. And on page 185 the author uses symbolism by showing the words save us on the wall of a building. Day sees this and doesn't realize how much people are relying on him. This is showing how ignorant he is because if he would just notice the signs and pay attention to things like this and think deeply about it he would have had the guts to give up his brother to save hundreds and thousands of

The book takes place in the United States in 2026 with a war that has been happening for 7 years the books 2 main characters are a young boy named Callum and his younger brother James who were taken from their families by an organization known as the Glorious Path. they are the winning group to the war Now that they are older Cal 15, James 9. Cal decides to try to escape the path.

Aliyah is doing greater than she had expected. It was no surprise to her that she is the woman holding the Vixens Championship because she knew that she had something more to offer than any other woman in Syndicate Wresting. People always underestimated The Cats Meow but they should have known to never do so, because reality is right in front of everybody;’s eyes, as there is only one woman holding the gold and people will forever know the name Aliyah. With her dominating performance in the ring, she earned the right to call herself the Vixens Champion, she earned everything she has gotten, whether people choose support or downgrade her one thing is for certain and that is Aliyah is the future of Syndicate Wrestling. walking around the locker