W. F. Harvey's Use Of Suspense In 'August Heat'

The story that had the most suspense was “The Sniper” because the author used short, choppy sentences, left cliffhangers at the end of paragraphs, and had a plot twist at the end of the story.

5. The novel Day of Tears definitely uses suspense to make the story more interesting. For instance, the night Emma, Joe, Charles, and Winnie escape, all the rain creates suspense. The rain symbolizes the chaos of the night and we want to know if they will successfully escape.Other examples of suspense on that night include when Charles and Winnie lost their baby and when they see the wagon coming toward them. When the light on the wagon approaches them, we think they are about to get caught, and want to know who is really in the wagon. These events all make you want to keep reading to find out what happens next.

Foreshadowing is one of the biggest ways that expresses suspense in the story. For example Sergeant Major Morris states that the first owner of the paw wished for death. That creates suspense because the reader wants to know why he wished for death. It foreshadows that the paw brings bad luck. Sergeant Major Morris also tells the Whites “…don’t blame me for what happens” (Jacobs 91). It foreshadows that something very bad is going to happen. Herbert foreshadows his death by saying the quote “Well I don’t see the money…and I bet I never shall”(134-135 Jacobs). That quote is a big part of the foreshadowing in this story. Foreshadowing is most likely one of the biggest ways to create suspense

Suspense. It's what makes us sit on the edge of our seats at movies, or has us biting our nails as we read. It’s the backbone behind any classic horror film where the babysitter keeps getting unknown phone calls about checking the children and she asks the police to trace the call only to get a call back saying it's coming from upstairs. 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

Suspense about the characters, suspense about the plot; everything was a mystery. The narrator’s every step brought suspense, especially when he got involved with the beating of the heart. Towards the end of the story, the author leaves readers constantly wondering as the suspense is increasing - What will happen to the characters, or how will they end up? These are questions that readers often find themselves asking, although the most common question is simply what will happen

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.

Many authors use setting to create suspense . Suspense is “the sense of growing tension,fear, and excitement felt by the reader” (95). Edgar Allen Poe and W.W. Jacobs create suspense throughout their short stories “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Monkey’s Paw”. Three techniques, these authors use to create suspense are ambiguous ending, the scaring techniques , and the setting.

One time when Andy Weir uses suspense very effectively is when he uses foreshadowing to describe what happens to AL102 (airlock 1) after the storm: “Every time the astronaut used the airlock, the strain of AL102 relaxed, then tightened anew. Pulling, stressing, weakening, stretching...” (Weir 155). As the suspense builds, readers will be anxious to know what happens to AL102 next. Another time suspense really pops out is when Weir describes what happens to the rover and trailer in third person: “Before the traveller [Mark] could react, the rover rolled onto its side. As it did, the solar cells…flew off and scattered like a dropped deck of cards...The traveller was alive, for now” (Weir 310). The cliffhanger has so much suspense, readers will probably read on no matter what. Whenever suspense is used, it definitely shows Andy Weir’s skill at making perfect cliffhangers in The

“Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope,” quote by Mason Cooley summarizes the idea of how W.F. Harvey creates suspense in his short story, “August Heats.” Everyone likes a little suspense in their life so W.F. Harvey attracts his audience by using foreshadowing, “the use of hints to suggest events later in the plot,” (source 1) a reversal is involved, “a sudden change in a character’s situation from good to bad or vice versa,” (source 1) and the narrator withholds information from the reader. With these steps the author intrigues the audience to continue reading and cause them to feel frightened as they read.

“I didn’t move. Instead, I took out the Beta Capsule and held the small metal cylinder in the palm of my avatar 's hand. Sorrento had tried to kill me.” (339) In this passage, Wade, the protagonist, decides that the antagonist has had enough of power and kills in the real world and OASIS. Wade then shows courage even when he should be doing different things, namely entering the third gate before he is killed. Wade shows a lot of courage throughout the story through suspense.

In this era of movies and stories we have better graphics and word choice to make the stories more scary. Unlike now they did not have this in 1963 and 1843. But still the people who made it feel like it was a modern day story was Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. One way they created suspense was by using foreshadowing to give a hint of what's coming next. Another way they created suspense is by using different wording than we would use than modern talking slang/wording. Lastly, they use onamonapias to create the story or film more scary and suspenseful.

Suspense is used in the beginning of the story when Rainsford dropped his pipe off the boat when he heard a gun that was fired three times. He lunged for the pipe but then realized that he went too far and and fell into the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea. The author uses suspense to hold the reader’s interest. “He struggled

Suspense is used when the narrator is talking through the character's mind during the first hunted scene and Rainsford had made a fake trail for Zaroff to follow and get lost. Well Zaroff didn't get lost he followed it to his location when he found him he laughed and walked back to his mansion. Before Zaroff had found him the narrator scarcely says “Something was coming through the bush, coming slowly carefully coming the same winding way Rainsford had come”(Connell 79). This best explains suspense because the narrator slows down time and gives great detail. Also you don’t know what is going to happen next.

Suspense is very good, especially when in the book goes back and recalls the suspense that already happened.“It was ridiculous of the events that lead me to almost dying”(weir 104) Death is one of the most suspenseful things as it often is in this book.The author uses popular terms to reach to the younger audience.The author talks about “ Brain farting” - he is referring to when he made a decision that does not make a lot of sense. And it came down to me brain farting(Weir 96) The author leads people to want to know what this brain fart let him mess up on to either result as a good thing or a bad thing. The suspense comes in many different forms. The author uses suspense in when mark needs to survive and something

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