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W. F. Harvey's August Heat Essay: Creating Suspense

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Creating Suspense in August Heat
Have you ever wonder how author create suspense to the point where you’re holding your breath and you get chills. Authors have different ways of creating suspense some authors use foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is the use of hints suggest events later in the plot. Writers also may create suspense by holding back information. Suspense can also be created when a character has to choose between two dangerous courses, or a change in a character’s situation from good to bad.
Harvey does a sudden change he’s just walking and suddenly he’s at the front gate of Chas. Atkinson Monumental Mason Worker in English and Italian Marbles. In this part of the story Harvey used reversal because the character’s situation changes. …show more content…

Harvey created suspense in “August Heat” by using foreshadowing. I think this is the best way to create suspense in a story because Harvey gives hint on what might happen in the future. From lines 152-177 is where I believe the most foreshadowing is created. “It’s like this,’ he said. “We’ll look at the matter straight. If you go back home to-night, you take your chance of accidents. A cart may run you over, and there’s always banana skins and orange peel, to say nothing of fallen ladders.” Atkinson in saying somethings is awaiting James that he should just stay. What made this scary was Atkinson had send his wife to sent and he was busy sharpening some tools. This gives a sences that James might get mudered by Atkinson.
W.F Harvey left us in suspense at the end of the short story “August Heat” because we never knew what happened to James Clarence Withencroft. We don't know if he actually makes it back home or if Atkinson murdered him. Harvey did an amazing job creating suspense. He used everything from for a sudden change in the characters situation, or where the character had to choose between two dangerous courses. Harvey also crated suspense by withholding information from us the readers. He did a great job of using foreshadowing, giving us hints of what might happen to James in the

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