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Dialogue To Create Suspense In Lucille Fletcher

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“What is it now?” he asked the houses, noticing his wrist watch. “Eight-thirty pm? Time for a dozen assorted murders? A quiz? A revue? A comedian falling off the stage?” (Bradbury, 1) This quote shows that Bradbury uses dialogue to create suspense. It makes the reader want to know if Mr. Mead is going to murder someone or do something harmful. It creates suspense because it make the reader interested in finding out what Mr. Mead will do next.Finally, both of these quotes use dialogue to create suspense. Therefore, dialogue demonstrates how both, Ray Bradbury and Lucille Fletcher creates suspense. However, Lucille Fletcher uses dialogue better than Ray Bradbury to create suspense. Lucille Fletcher uses imagery, word-choice, and dialogue to

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