The suspenseful narrative "Cujo" by the author Stephen King uses third person narrative to create suspense in the story that has the readers anxiously wanting to know more. The story starts by Donna and her son having a normal day by them going to collect their car from the garage when she suddenly hears a low growl. The growl turns out to be Cujo Joe Camber's dog. He turns rabid and starts to attack Donna, where she has to fend to her life.
Sometimes something happens in life that forces you to grow up, even if you don’t want to or don’t feel like you are ready. The historical fiction book Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a girl named Mattie who is forced to grow up when she goes through many hardships during the Yellow Fever epidemic. Without her mom and grandfather to rely on, and many things that have to get done, Mattie has to figure things out and do things on her own. As the story goes on, Mattie goes from being lazy to being dependable.
For two centuries now, horror and suspense stories have become one of the most intriguing types of story genres. These genres have captured the attention of countless of readers and nowadays watchers. According to Percy D’Aco, horror stories are created to show discomfort and fear reflecting on one’s greatest fears. In the process of writing horror stories, numerous authors create suspense to make people continue reading and stay hooked on the story. A great example of the use of suspense would be the horror story “August Heat,” written by W.F Harvey.
The novel, Fahrenheit 451, presents a future society where books are prohibited and the firemen burn any that are. The title is the temperature at which books burn. It was written by Ray Bradbury and first published in October 1953. In this novel, protagonist Montag changes his understanding in various aspects such as love or his human relationship throughout the book. However, among all of these, fire – the main theme of this novel – has the most significance as it also changes his understanding of knowledge from books.
W.F. Harvey uses diverse methods, symbolism, and comparisons to create a nerve-racking feel when you continue reading the story. "August Heat" is a 1910 short story, about two men, unknown to each other, whose glimpses of the other's possible future suggest that one of them will be murdered and the other will be the murderer.
Within that week, Ray Bradbury grabbed my attention and made me question my habits of knowledge. Fahrenheit 451 follows a fire “fighter” named Guy Montag, whose job description is to burn every book he can find. Why? Books create alternate realities. Alternate realities can harm a society that runs on the brainlessness of the people. Montag, as a faithful firefighter, burns stories, homes, and lives to the ground.
Mary McCarthy once said, “The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen.” The story “August Heat” by W.F. Harvey can relate in a lot of ways with this quote, the author was the one that came up with the idea for his story in which coincidence brings two men together in a very twisted scenario. This story begins in a very normal day only to turn itself into a mystery of what will tomorrow hold for these two men. Suspense can be created in many different ways, but W.F. Harvey creates the suspense in his story in a very unique way in which at first reading it, one thinks that it has nothing to do with mystery and that it will not lead to that.
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.
Meursault describes the heat as, “inhuman and oppressive”(15). If you look at how this could reflect his feeling at the moment, you could infer the sadness and grief of losing his mother was too much for him. it was ‘overbearing’. This language is very strong and harsh. The harshness creates a tone of
Literary Analysis Suspense. It's what makes us sit on the edge of our seats at movies, or has us biting our nails as we read. It’s the backbone behind any classic horror film where the babysitter keeps getting unknown phone calls about checking the children and she asks the police to trace the call only to get a call back saying it's coming from upstairs.
In “August Heat” Harvey introduces the narrator's sister's death which would make any reader draw a conclusion that the story might end up being about his sister's ghost or such possible event regarding such matter”My only near relative, a sister, died five years ago, so that i am independent (92)”. The narrator then turns into this creep out of the ordinary as if he has some sort of visions, “I began to draw. So intent was I on my work that I left my lunch (92)”. The drawing resulted as a fat, bald, flesh hung in rolls, stumpy neck etc. whom appeared to be a criminal in his eyes(such accusation on a man he doesn't even know).
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.
In addition to dialogue, Agatha Christie also creates anxiety in the reader through the use of different elements. To begin with, suspense is first created when the gramophone record is played. By adding this to the novel the reader is informed that the guests are not as innocent as they seem to be when they first arrive. Readers are intrigued to see if the accusations in the Swan Song are true or not. The Ten Little Soldier Boys rhyme on top of each guests mantel piece also instills a feeling of foreboding in the reader.
The setting in the 4th paragraph helped create suspense by leading it to the death of the old man. The setting in which took place in the old man’s room, with darkness felled in “that no light shone out.. every night[,] just at twelve”(Poe 1-2). Therefore with night time being the setting it help create suspense so that light could not be shone in order for him to sneak into his room. As well as the pacing of the story help work together to create suspense by his pacing being able to finish his work. The pacing of the narrator entering the room he would move very slowly; when his head was well in “[he] undid the lantern cautiously-
The horror writers association wrote on horror.org that horror, “forces us to confront who we are,” along with examining, “what we are afraid of” (Bradbury). People fear losing what they have, and they fear, “the fire bursts,” in their house, along with many other things (Bradbury). This story is horror because of the levels of emotions and supernatural occurrences that are
