What is it that after all these years that can keep a reader glued to a novel? What is it that keeps the pages of a novel flipping? What is it that can make an hour seem like ten minutes? The answer is suspense: each novel of this genre constantly repeats the same steps over and over, yet each ...

Interrupted Event in The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole creates a gothic tale filled with fascinating events and a wonderful plot. Within the story a new crisis or event often arises before the current one is resolved and this effect creates so much suspense. These events and crisis that arise s...

A good book requires enough intrigue and suspense to grab a reader's attention and hold it, stringing it along from chapter to chapter. Avi's The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is such a book. I found it to be both intriguing and suspenseful. The main character, Charlotte Doyle, is a thirtee...

The Chrysalids is a science fictional book of suspense, irony and pathos. The six main characters in the novel are David Strorm, Joseph Strorm, Gordon Strorm, Petra Strorm, Rosalind, and Sealand woman. They have different situations and different opinions in the story which adds more suspense and ...

Title: Pretend You Don't See Her Author: Mary Higgins Clark Number of Pages: 318 Publication Date: 1997 Summary Pretend You Don't See Her is one of my favorite murder mysteries that I have ever read. My favorite part of this novel is that the ending is very unpredictable. This...

Airframe Michael Crichton For unknown reasons, the almost flawless N-22 Norton aircraft suffers severe turbulence during TPA flight 545. As a result of three fatalities and fifty-six injuries, a spiral of investigations, terrible apprehensions, and horrible threats plague the Norton Aircraft P...

The film representation's simple cinematography and dialog accurately capture the mood created in Chekhov's story, but it fails in other areas. The motives and thoughts of the characters could not be easily discovered, as the film focused on carrying on the plot with little attention give...

Elizabeth Jolley's The Well is an excellent representation of the author's ability to create and sustain suspense resulting in a degree of perplexity that suits the investigative genre of the text. Jolley's manipulation of the narrative and of the perspectives serves both to challenge and to intrigu...

The novel Absolute Power by David Baldacci is an intense thriller that, like its author, is clever and interesting. The knowledge he gained as a lawyer aided in shaping his career as a successful suspense writer. Baldacci writes about what interests him, and his interest comes through in the pages ...

Roman Polanski's Macbeth was a successful film. Roman Polanski incorporated very detailed scenes with appropriate characters to form a masterpiece. The character's costumes were very suitable and very believable throughout the entire movie. The music added in the scenes increased the suspe...

Thomas Jefferson "On the Dangers of Reading Fiction" In today's world there are a variety of fiction books that people choose to read. Some of these books contain useful information while the rest are just read for pure entertainment. I agree with Jefferson's statement &quo...

Jane Eyre is the kind of book that\'s great to read on rainy days. It\'s a romance novel with a hint of mystery and suspense. Set in England in the 1800s, Bronte brings a chill down your spine with the gloomy and melancholy background of Thornfield Hall. With such bewildering characters as Mr. Roche...

The Scarlet Letter Author's essay The Scarlet Letter was a lot of fun to write. I knew if I gave it all my heart, it would definitely be a great novel, and that's exactly what I did. Considering that I was born and raised in Salem, writing a book about my homeland would be exciti...

David Baldacci was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1960. After high school he attended Virginia Commonwealth University, where he received his Bachelor of Art in political science. Immediately afterwards he began law school at the University of Virginia. While he was attending law school, he began...

Alice walker's approach to writing is in many ways dissimilar to the many types of authors in the world of literature back when she began, and even today. There are authors of horror, romance, suspense, and then there is the type that Alice Walker writes, through personal experiences. Although mos...

The Chrysalids is a science fictional book of suspense, irony and pathos. The six main characters in the novel are David Strorm, Joseph Strorm, Gordon Strorm, Petra Strorm, Rosalind, and Sealand woman. They have different situations and different opinions in the story which adds more suspense and ...

This novel has many symbols and themes that are revealed as the reader follows along. One of the first, and most important, symbols found in Snow Falling on Cedars is the snowstorm that is going on in San Pedro Island. The snow falling outside that begins to pile up represents the tension that is ...

There are many similarities and differences in the book To Kill A Mockingbird and the film that was based upon it. The three main differences are the absence of characters, the manipulation of major themes and the scenes that accompany them, and the variation of the point of view. Overall, the boo...

Wright is the author of the novel, Native Son. By writing thenovel, he wanted to awaken America to the realities of the relationshipbetween blacks and whites in the controversial 1930s. When he wrotethis novel, it caused many disputes among Americans. Many peoplethought that some of the issues Wrigh...

This novel has many symbols and themes that are revealed as the reader follows along. One of the first, and most important, symbols found in Snow Falling on Cedars is the snowstorm that is going on in San Pedro Island. The snow falling outside that begins to pile up represents the tension that is ...

The Chocolate War Book Evaluation Bibliograhpical Data The Chocolate War, Cormier, Robert, Laurel-Leaf Books, 1974, 191 p. Setting: Place: Trinity High School. Time: The early to late 1970's. Narrative Viewpoint: Omni. Characters: Jerry – Jerry is a boy who ...

Irony is really important in literature, especially in novels. In the Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver uses situational irony to make her novel more interesting. She shows this kind of irony through three characters: Taylor, Lou Ann, and Turtle. First of all, Taylor shows situational irony by going...

Risky, Ambitious, and Brilliant is the way to describe this author's works and life. As a contemporary American novelist and short-story writer he uses his characters to express his life throughout the war. One of his most recent works is "In the Lake of the Woods". All of his writing...

Is This Some Sort of Sign? Symbolism by definition is a revelation or suggestion of intangible conditions or truths by artistic invention. Requiem Guatemala, a novel by Marshall Bennett Connelly, exemplifies superlative symbolic use at its prime. Connelly's use of imagery and symbolism in...

How does Faulkner direct and shape the reader's reaction's to the story? Faulkner takes advantage of flashbacks while he is constructing his narrative in order to accomplish a great effect of suspense. First, the narrator presents some fictional facts that provide verisimilitude to the ...