Everyone has those memories that aren’t so great, something like a funeral, or an accident. However, only so many people have the burden of a murder on their mind. In the novel It by Stephen King, it changes between present day and the past, and about 160 pages in, it flashes back to June of 1958, which is when everything happened. At the beginning, you learn that Ben has a crush on Bev, which makes him daydream sometimes. One day, he was at the library and when he walked out, daydreaming, Henry Bowers, Victor Criss, and Belch Huggins were across the street, waiting for him. They jumped him, due to Henry failing because Ben wouldn 't let him copy his exam. Henry wants him to remember that whenever he says to let him copy, Ben will say ‘okay’, …show more content…
Another example of this type of suspense-making is present day time, at the beginning of the book, when the teenagers ‘accidentally kill’ the gay man. He goes from each story, then to back when it was happening, then back to the stories. One example of this from the beginning is, “‘If you need help, Don,’ the clown said, ‘help yourself to a balloon.. And it offered the bunch it held in one hand. ‘They float,’ the clown said. ‘Down here we all float, pretty soon your friend will float, too.’ -(skip to section 12)- ‘This clown called you by name,’ Jeff Reeves said in a totally expressionless voice. He looked over Hagarty’s bent head at Harold Gardener, and one eye drew down in a wink. ‘Yes,’ Hagarty said, not looking up. ‘I know how it sounds.’ -(skip to section 13)- ‘So then you threw him over,’ Boutillier said. ‘Bum’s rush.’ ’Not me!’ Unwin said, looking up. He flicked the hair out of his eyes with one hand and stared at them urgently. ‘When I saw they really meant to do it, I tried to pull Steve away, because I knew the guy might get banged up…. It was like ten feet to the water….’ It was twenty-three. One oChief Rademacher’s patrolmen had already measured. ‘But it was like he was crazy. The two of them kept yelling “Bum’s rush! Bum’s rush!” and they picked him up, Webby had him under the arms and Steve had him by the seat of the pants, and… and…’ -(skip to section 14)- When Hagarty saw what they were doing, h rushed back toward them, screaming ‘No! No! No!’ at the top of his voice…” (page
In the story “The Most Dangerous Game”, the author creates a feeling of suspense multiple times. Throughout the story, you will see examples of suspenseful moments, including these few I’m about to tell you. When Rainsford and Whitney are on the yacht in the ocean going past Ship-Trap Island, after Whitney goes to sleep and Rainsford is outside on the boat, he hears a gunshot go off a few times. Rainsford then got curious wanting to know what it was and he then stands on the edge of the boat and falls overboard then finds it hard to swim and yells for help but the boat never stops. He then decides to swim to the island and as he is walking through the jungle that’s on the island, he found a chateau on the strange island.
In the book Baseball Great, the author, Tim Green told the story from the main characters point of view. That helped build suspense because it showed what was going on inside his mind with all the adversity going on with his baseball team and with his dad losing his job and how he overcomes it. He also used used plot structure to engage the reader by having many unexpected events happen to make the ending very suspenseful and unpredictable. For example," 'I tried, Garry. ' Dallas Said.
Suspense is a mental uncertainty or anxiety. It can also be defined as the state of being undecided or doubtful. Authors of mysteries include elements such as foreshadowing, red herrings, and closed settings to help create suspense. The short stories “This Way Nobody Gets the Blame,” “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” and “Invitation to a Murder,” include these elements and are examples of well-balanced and well-defined mystery stories. The authors of these stories write interesting and suspenseful stories/mysteries.
“Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope,” quote by Mason Cooley summarizes the idea of how W.F. Harvey creates suspense in his short story, “August Heats.” Everyone likes a little suspense in their life so W.F. Harvey attracts his audience by using foreshadowing, “the use of hints to suggest events later in the plot,” (source 1) a reversal is involved, “a sudden change in a character’s situation from good to bad or vice versa,” (source 1) and the narrator withholds information from the reader. With these steps the author intrigues the audience to continue reading and cause them to feel frightened as they read. W.F. Harvey first begins to get the character interested in the reading by the way he signals hints towards the reader in order to get them thinking about events that could possibly happen. As the reader continues reading W.F. Harvey introduces more hints that might change the way of thinking of the reader.
Authors use literary devices to help the reader understand the message or theme. Literary devices are a key hint as to what the author is trying to tell the reader instead of just flat out stating the lesson or message. Throughout "Live to Tell", "Refresh, Refresh", and "Man From the South" the author 's use suspense to show the emotions the characters are feeling. There is a lot of emotion portrayed throughout "Live to Tell" by Lisa Gardner. The author uses suspense to show that Evans mom Victoria is fearful of what he would do if she did something to make him agitated.
A good way of creating a suspenseful mood for the reader is to through the setting. And, looking at how Richard Connell described the
Reading and Writing are Important Stephen King's "Reading to Write" (72) give details about King's methods on becoming a better writer. To become a better writer, you must read a whole heap of books. There are so many other things you can read other than books like magazines, newspapers, labels on food, and papers. As a student in college, I understand Stephen King's methods. Reading and Writing will help me further my college education, and it will help me get to my goal.
Agatha Christie builds suspense alot in her book And Then There Were None, but one of the best ways would be the characters and how you watch them lose their minds. After Rogers is murdered, Vera, while standing in the yard, cries out in a high shrill voice, shaken with wild bursts of laughter (Christie 189). When Vera did that it freaked everybody out, then they wanted breakfast, like how could you eat after seeing Rogers and his head split open. After she cried out Wargrave thought “The sane well-balanced girl had gone mad before their eyes” (Christie 189).
“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, “Good Country People” by Flannery O'Connor, and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson all have very strong themes that depict a darker side of human nature. All are very different in plot, but are connected through their endings. They all start with seemingly normal characters who end up doing things that would not have been predicted. In “The Veldt” it shows children revolting against their parents. “The Lottery” shows a whole community turning against one person.
When you watch a tv show and do you find it annoying when they go to commercial break right before something important is about to happen? That is an example of suspense. You usually sit through the commercials to see what happens right? It keeps you hooked. The short story that I will be referring to and drawing examples of suspense from is Pickman’s Model by H.P. Lovecraft.
Stephen King’s birthplace is Portland, Maine. His parents are Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Stephen King is a university of Maine graduate, he graduated with a B.S. in English and a minor in dramatics. King has several major achievements for his literary masterpieces. King is most known for writing novels, short stories and screenplays; not many people know about the children’s book he published.
In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, suspense is created through the use of foreshadowing, different points of view, and cliffhangers. Without suspense, the book would be boring and uninteresting to read. The author uses these three main techniques to keep the reader engaged. First off, Connell uses foreshadowing to create suspense by using appalling words to map out the near future, and by using dialogue. The author uses dreadful words like “dark” and “cannibal” to foreshadow the daunting future.
War causes separation between family and friends. This is because not everyone has the same opinion/beliefs about war. The Meeker family suffers from this problem as Sam, the eldest son, joins the American Revolutionary Army, despite the fact that the rest of the family are loyal supporters of the English King. In My Brother Sam is Dead, James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier use the craft moves of dialogue, inner thinking, and revealing actions to raise the suspense of certain parts of the book.
The story’s suspense goes up and down. The author of the story, Stella Duffy, elegantly uses literary devices to add flavor to the story. Hints are given early on, that the reader may only notice at the second or third read through, and foreshadowings are used in the story. A great example of a foreshadowing is on the last page in lines 166-177.
To begin, Horror fiction can keep the reader on the edge of their seat, contemplating what is going to happen next. Through the eyes of the reader, suspense can often lead them to indulging themselves into the novel