How Does Atkinson Create Suspense In August Heat

When it comes down to a good book that one reads, all it takes for someone to get hooked on it is for them to feel suspenseful. The feeling of having to know what exactly goes on after a certain situation takes place. Within the essay, the author brought about great suspense in the story, “August Heat” by adding in key contributing factors that enables the suspense to take place, thus creating the effect of grabbing one's attention to the book. The author uses three main points to create suspense within his story which are figurative language, foreshadowing, and reversal. When we look at foreshadowing, it ultimately brings out the greater perception of things to a much deeper and significant meaning rather than just using simply explanations. This is used in

This is when the author writes a sudden change about the character and how it’ll affect them in the long run. In other words, the author creates a sudden situation in which case the main character or characters within the story have to deal with so that they can get around what's blocking them. Though in many cases like in this, the author writes inevitable actions that ultimately take away every opportunity of freedom or escape. The story states, “ Mr. Atkinson finished his work, spat on the ground, and got up with a sigh of relief. There! What do you think of that?” he said with an air of evident pride. The inscription which i read for the first time was this……. Sacred to the Memory of James Clarence Within Croft, Born Jan. 18th, 1860 He Passed away very suddenly on August 20th 190-” This is a huge drastic change within the story, this allows many questions to arise but ultimately brings up the suspense as to how or why his name was engraved within the stone. Through this, we get to see and feel how by adding in reversal, you can create an even more opening and suspenseful story whereas if you