Suspense is what makes a book become an outstanding book. This is why Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, heaped suspense into the book. Interestingly, suspense is defined as a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. Lee uses numerous literary techniques to develop suspense in the story. Two that she uses to employ suspense is cliffhangers and imagery. The author applies cliffhangers and imagery to create suspense. Lee employs cliffhangers throughout her story to conjure suspense. For example Lee shows Scout’s uneasiness after the fire incident at the Radley’s house thus creating suspense for the reader, “Through all the head shaking… Someone inside was laughing” (54). The laughing coming from …show more content…
For example Lee incorporates imagery to create suspense in the scene where Jem, Scout, and Dill try to peek into the Radley’s house. “Then I saw a shadow of a man with a hat on… and the shadow was crisp as toast, moved across the porch toward Jem” (71). The fact that this takes place in the night creates a restless atmosphere. Incorporating suspense through imagery seems easy for Lee as she uses imagery that does not quite fit in with the story. For example, “the shadow was crisp as toast” (71) This conjures an uneasy feeling in the back of the reader's mind. Another instance of imagery creating suspense is the time when Atticus is sitting by the jail in the middle of the night and a gang confronts him. To set up the scene Lee uses imagery to create a creepy feeling for the reader. “The south side of the square was deserted. Giant monkey puzzle bushes bristled on each corner… otherwise the courthouse was dark” (200). Before any of the action Lee delivers discomfort to the consumer of the content. Plenty of people dislike the dark so this already helps introduce suspense to the reader. A deserted town also creates a sense of nervousness. Lee brings suspense into the story through intriguing
That part of the story created suspense because you are curious to know what happens afterwards. Wanting to know what happens after he falls off the boat and when he sees the chateau is what makes us want to keep reading.
Jack Finney uses foreshadowing to create tension, unease, and fear in the minds of readers. Throughout the story, tension is used to keep readers wondering what will happen next. In fact, in many important moments it will keep you on the edge of your seat. For example, in the lines “…and – his body moving backwards – his fingers clutched the narrow wood stripping of the upper pane.”
The book “To Kill A Mockingbird” tells the story of how racist and misogynistic the south was in the 1930’s. Jean louise Finch narrates the book zand tells the story of Scout finch who is an illusion to her younger self. Jean Louise is different from Scout because she's smart,educated, mature and she understands far more than Scout does. Scout is only six, so she doesn't have the best understanding of what's going on around her. She’s seeing the world through the eyes of a six year old.
It keeps readers hooked to the book. The one time that Weir uses suspense is when Watney is doing all of his experiments to survive. “I’m going to be setting a fire. In the Hab [Mark’s habitat, or home on Mars]. On purpose.
Throughout chapter 28 of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the author, Harper Lee, used chiaroscuro. By contrasting and enhancing the light and dark of this chapter, Harper Lee portrayed the mood as creepy and dangerous, alluded to the attack, and added suspense to her novel. The mood of stories help readers connect and become interested, so by describing “sharp shadows,” and “black dark,” Lee made the readers become engrossed in the book, and develop concern for the young characters, Jem and Scout. After the readers had an idea of what the chapter may bring, Harper Lee allowed the plot to progress. Intimations such as Cecil scaring them in the dark helped show that anyone can be in the dark to scare them.
These are called literary elements. They’re of huge importance to any book, from children’s comics to history volumes. And in the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are so many literary elements that make its story so celebrated in English classrooms after over fifty years since its publication. This paper will ultimately explain the most important three elements to the theme of the story in one passage of the book; the Dolphus Raymond scene. The theme that this paper will be focusing on is how Scout and Dill
That quote is a big part of the foreshadowing in this story. Foreshadowing is most likely one of the biggest ways to create suspense
In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, suspense is created through the use of foreshadowing, different points of view, and cliffhangers. Without suspense, the book would be boring and uninteresting to read. The author uses these three main techniques to keep the reader engaged. First off, Connell uses foreshadowing to create suspense by using appalling words to map out the near future, and by using dialogue. The author uses dreadful words like “dark” and “cannibal” to foreshadow the daunting future.
Harper Lee uses Characterization to show the reader of her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, how different people and events impact children as they grow up and shape the kind of adults they will turn out to be. She shows how the people of Maycomb influenced Jem and how Scout’s view was changed by a single person. Lee also makes it evident that one event can change children’s entire perception of the
What gives the reader that feeling of being on the edge of their seat? Why would he want the reader to anticipate what’s going to happen next? That is how the author expresses tension. The author does this by using literary devices. Edgar Allen Poe builds suspense in “The Black Cat” by using specific literary devices—foreshadowing, allusion, and slow pace.
In the excerpt from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, rhetorical devices such as appeal to pathos, imagery, and simile helped create suspense when Christopher had found out about his undead mother. By creating suspense, it gives the reader a certain feeling of wanting to read more to figure out what would happen next. The author appeals to pathos by announcing Christopher’s undead mother. As Christopher had said, “Mother had not had a heart attack.
Such as, “Boo bit off his mothers’ fingers one night when he couldn’t find any cats or squirrels to eat,” (Chapter 4) Or the rumour of him eating cats “he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch,” (Chapter 1) This led people to believe that Boo Radley was indeed a “monster” and a malevolent person. Harper Lee aims for readers to understand that through the language devices, social prejudice is being shown. Language devices such as the metaphor used to describe Mr Radley, “he was a thin, leathery man with coloured eyes, so colourless, they did not reflect light,” (Chapter 1) This leads the reader to believe that the Radley place is a dark, confined and scary place that not even an animal would dare to go too.
Suspense is used in literature to give off a feeling of uncertainty. In W.F. Harvey’s story “August Heat”, he writes about our protagonist James and how he meets a bizarre character named Mr.Atkinson who he feels is an unnatural person and feels uneasy with him. Later when he is invited to stay the night, Harvey finished the story off with James saying he will “be gone in less than an
The cinematic universe and the diligent detail of a sophisticated writer tend to differ in a multitude of ways. Even Though movies just seem so much more entertaining than a mere book, I believe that these mere books bring forth and pursue a more diverse way of protruding details that make the situation or scene in a book appear to be so much more personal. Therefore, in this prompt, I will thoroughly explain my reasoning about To Kill A Mockingbird(TKM) from my standpoint. First of all, the detail of the book just grabs my attention and yanks me into the adventurous wonderland of the contents.
This past year in English 9 I had the opportunity to read the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper E. Lee. When Mr. Kidd first announced to the class what we would be reading for the next few weeks I was sure that there was no way I would ever enjoy reading this "classic". Shortly after the first chapter, I knew that I had made a wrong assumption. Something I assumed would be boring and irrelevant was such rich literature that was full of insight on relatable issues. Without a doubt, that To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favorite stories because of it's memorable characters and underlying themes throughout the plot.