Analysis Of Click Clack The Rattle Bag

“Click clack The Rattle Bag” is a short story by Neil Gaiman. This story is about a boy and his sister’s boyfriend in the boys house. It starts with the boyfriend telling the boy to go to bed. The boy asks the boyfriend to walk him to his room and tell him a bedtime story. The kid says nothing too scary though. He asks what if you told about “Click-Clack The RattleBag” the boyfriend asked what's it about? The kid tells him it’s about a shadow monster who gets you when you least expect it and leaves you in a wind chime made from your bones. After that the boy asked the boyfriend about his day. He said that wouldn’t make much of a story. The boyfriend opens the door to the attic and he goes in. It's perfectly dark, the boyfriend says. He hears a chime the boyfriend would have ran if he knew something would grab him and take him into the darkness. The story ends there with a cliffhanger. The author develops the characters' different points of view in order to build up suspense throughout the story.

For example in the story it says “So what do these Click-clacks look like?” Even as I asked him, I wished I could take the question back, and leave it unasked. I thought: Huge spidery creatures. Like the one in the shower that morning. I’m afraid of spiders. I was relieved when the boy said, “They look like what you aren’t expecting. What you aren’t paying attention to.” This Evidence is an example because it shows the suspense of what the creature looks like between the boy and the boyfriend. This shows how the evidence is valid because my claim is how the story builds suspense through each character's different point of