Examples Of Suspense In The Plague

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The suspense from the book The Plague The book The Plague written by Albert Camus, is a first person narrative about the plague in the city of Oran. In this book, the author uses suspense to show how the people race to the thought of the main character, the doctor are not always shown his thinking, When doctor send his wife to the train, he saw a railroad man and he carry the box with died rat, doctor said “The rats?” he said “is nothing” but at that time, he already find the rats have some problem. But he is afraid for what he thinks. And when he called the municipal office, “the man who charged the office tell him, it have fifty rats had been found in this office. Which are near the wharves” …show more content…

There’s nothing definite as yet. Keep him on a light diet and give him plenty to drink.”(21) In this quote, for the doctor said, have a EM Dash, which means the doctor change what he wants to say. That means the doctor do not wants to tell them the truth, even the patient is too sick to die. That is the suspense for the book, he do not wants to the reader to know if that is the real plague or not, also that is the suspense for the patients, they do not know what kind of illness yet. And at the second date, he back to the patient. “Old M. Michel’s temperature, and gone down to 99 and, though he still looked very weak, he was smiling. ‘ He’s better, doctor, isn’t he?’ his wife inquired. ‘Well, it’s a bit too early to say.” And the man died after, but even he died, the doctor still do not tell the truth to the patient’s wife, that is the suspense for the doctor when he met the first …show more content…

What does that word really mean? Riex shrugged his shoulder” When he say this sentence, he shrugged his solder, which prove the disdain when he said, because he is already find that illness is plague, but Caster still not believe this truth. But that is also suspense from what he said, because he did not say that is the plague. But when Grand ask doctor what is that illness, the doctor still do not say what’s that, even he is pretty sure that is plague “ That I shan’t say, and anyhow you wouldn’t gain anything by knowing” when he say that, he is know that illness is plague, but he still do not wants to tell him what is the illness, that is also suspense, because that is the suspense for the