The Knife
Everybody has read a horror story before at some point, but a story from Alfred Hitchcock is different because at the end he leaves the reader thinking what has happened. In "The Knife" he uses Plot, Setting, and Conflict to do just this. Edward Dawes and Herbert Smithers are just two friends having a drink with eachother, but one of them has a knife that was found in a nearby sewer drain. Herbert is cleaning it widly as if he was possesed. Then a red ruby appears on the knife when he is done cleaning it, now the madness breaksout like a terrible plague.. While Herbert is admiring the knife, the maid walks in and asks to see the knife,but all of a sudden Herbert goes insane out of his mind when the maid touched him, then he stares right at the maid with a devilish look, and out of the blue he stabbed her, next thing you know the maid is on the floor dead and Herbert runs out the house as fast as he can. The reader may think this is the climax, but it is not, it is the rising action leading up to the climax. Alfred Hitchcock does not tel
"Be careful, Miss Maples!" he said. All of the women killed were all killed by a different man, but all with the same knife. "He picked up the knife, gripped if firmly, and struck a pose, winking broadly. l the reader why he stabbed her,he likes to leaving the reader thinking and get more into the story, which is kind of like ahook to keep the reader reading. once he has called the police for some reason he goes into the kitchen to clean the wicked knife. Or was it the sound of a woman screaming?" That's the end of the story and that's how Alfred Hitchcock leaves his readers. Let me look at it, may I Sergeant Tobins, if you do notmind. All of Jack The Ripper's victims were women. Hisface flushed, and a fierce anger unnacountably flared up in him at the touch of Miss Miss Maple's hand, but as he stared into her plain, bewildered face, the anger was soothed by the pleasurable tingling warmth in his right wrist. The falling action and conclusion get a little weird because the police get to the scene, and they start discussing about this, but the sergeant remembers a murder on the same street a while back, and the person that was murdered on this street was Marie Kelly, the last victim of Jack The Ripper. AfterHerbert runs out Edward Dawes picks up the knife and notifys the police of the incident. In "The Knife" the conflict was between men vs. The mood is not that frightening especially for a horror story.
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