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Sebastian Junger's Use Of Suspense Analysis

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Sebastian Junger creates suspense and tension by his detailed descriptions and quotes from the actual smokejumpers. The most suspenseful part (for me) was in the beginning because I didn 't know exactly what was going to happen. What made the beginning even more intense was a survivor 's actual account of what was happening. “ 'People were yelling into their radios, ‘Run! Run! Run!’ I was roughly one hundred and fifty feet from the top of the hill, and the fire got there in ten or twelve seconds. I made it over the top and just tumbled and rolled down the other side, and when I turned around, there was just this incredible wall of flame. '” The detail about the distance between the survivor and the flames and the speed the flames are

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