Suspense causes a chill down the reader’s back. The suspense in the dialogue of a story entices the reader to keep reading. Until the reader reaches the end of the story they always want more. Furthermore, readers will spend time trying to predict the result of the character(s) using clues the author has left for them.
Numerous authors use suspense in their writing. Writers have multiple methods to create suspense in a story. Authors use questions, emotion, foreshadow, and help the reader experience the danger in the story. When authors use these techniques readers begin to grow anxious and seek an outcome to the continuous suspense. The author is always one step ahead of the reader and never reveals the consequence of the character(s) action too soon or too late.
In the story The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury Mr. Leonard Mead is walking along a long, silent, and empty street during the night. He encounters a police officer and is thoroughly questioned on his suspicious walk to nowhere. “And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark
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The beginning of the story shows clues of foreshadowing. Mr. Bradbury describes the setting as a dark, quiet, creepy place which causes the reader to suspect that an event will occur soon that will impact the character. Later, Mr. Mead’s interrogation ends and the police officer forced him to get in the police car without a reason. “Wait a minute, I haven't done anything!" (Ray Bradbury). The author uses emotion to cause the reader to feel sympathetic for Mr. Leonard Mead. He has tried to explain he did nothing wrong, but the officer does not listen. He is being taken to a place called the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies. Since walking is extremely odd in the community this act classifies as a regressive tendency by the government. This overwhelms the reader because imagining the future as a place where we can’t walk and mostly watch television is