The pace of "The Possibility of Evil" creates a suspense that holds the readers attention. Shirley ackson does this by using certain techniques such as foreshadowing. She also creates suspense by Miss Strangeworths thoughts instead of words. One more reason that creates suspense is how Miss Strange...

In the opening shot of Touch of Evil, Orson Welles can create tension and suspense by effectively using the off frame aspect of the mise-en-scene. By allowing the scene to move outside the focus of action, at particularly untimely moments, Welles places the audience in short but effective moments of...

Fast Break: 1985 Edward Hirsch The poem Fast Break is written in great depth and detail. As a result, the reader perceives a detailed vision of what occurred on that one particular play. But, the reader would need some basketball knowledge and background, in order, to truly envision what the po...

This novel was a fictional story. Everything and Everyone in this story were not based on a true story. It was written by Carol Beach York. It was published in 1987 by Pocket Books in New York. There are many characters and settings in this novel. It is full of suspense and it kept me wondering.The ...

Content's of a Dead Man's Pockets Literature Essay Imagine a low paid guy named Tom with a wife that likes to go out and in this time money is probably whole life. Well at least in Toms situation were he's tempted to go over extreme obstacles just so he can get paid a bit extra by turni...

Fictional Analysis of 'A White Heron' All good stories, be they fiction or truth, require some type of plot path to allow the reader to easily follow the direction of the story. Different types of plot structures will cause to reader to focus on specific details and apt authors can...

Susan Glaspell's Trifles is a good play because it unravels the different motives for murder throughout the play. Unlike most murder mysteries, Trifles is a play where the reader knows the murderer early on. Some readers may say that this makes the play bad. However, a murder mystery does n...

Gone in 60 Seconds In the film Gone in 60 Seconds, Nicolas Cage stars as Randall "Memphis" Raines, a former car thief who was once the best in the business. When Memphis's younger brother, Kip (Giovanni Ribisi), gets into trouble with dangerous car smuggler Raymond Calitri (Christop...

Andrew MorrisBoth the events and the descriptive language in "The Demon Lover" help make it a classic ghost story. Elizabeth Bowen's word usage builds suspense and an eery atmosphere by drawing on concepts, images, and actions the reader associates with being afraid. The author begins the story by u...

The book Hatchet is about a 13 year old boy that is trapped in the Canadian wilderness after his plane goes down. In this book the main character Brian has to fight for his life alone. Brian has to defend himself and find food and a city boy doesn't know all of these things. Brian is lost and he onl...

An American Childhood By: Annie Dillard In the story An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard, it is emphasize the value of pursuing an important goal. The author recalls childhood to be the "only firsthand experience". Dillard's simplicity in writing her autobiographical work shows the...

\"The Trumpeter of Krakow\" is about the Charnestski family who was given a legendary crystal that had been handed down from one generation to the next. They were running away from evil forces that wanted possession of the crystal. Then one day, the father of the family decided to move to Krakow, Po...

Different Types of Movies Movies are a favorite pastime throughout America. There are many different types of movies, and people prefer different ones. Whether it is drama, comedy, or suspense, it seems like they are all equally preferred. The three best movies of the year were the comedy, Meet T...

Movies are a favorite pastime throughout America. There are many different types of movies, and people prefer different ones. Whether it is drama, comedy, or suspense, it seems like they are all equally preferred. The three best movies of the year were the comedy, Meet The Parents, the drama, Ghost...

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...

Supernatural Forces in MacbethSupernatural forces in Shakespeares' "Macbeth" aid the play in creating a suspenseful atmosphere. The use of the supernatural in the witches, the visions, the ghost and the apparitions are the backbone of the climax and provide "excuses" for Macbeth's change of characte...

One of the books I read over the summer was Midnight Hour Encores by Bruce Brooks. Sibilance T. Spooner, who likes to be called Sib, is 16 years old and last seen her mother when she was only 20 hours old and lives with her father, Taxi. One day she suddenly decided that she wants to see her mother,...

In Annie Dillard's "The Chase" she starts by detailing how she participated in sports in her neiborhood. She insists that no girl activities could compare to the thrill and excitement that she got of playing boys sports. In the wintertime there were not any sports that they could play, so they thr...

Beowulf EssaySeptember 28, 2000The eighth passage in Beowulf is the most suspenseful and exciting in the story. The character of the monster Grendel, and the bravery of the hero, Beowulf, makes it entertaining and full of torture. The huge killer is changed, by facing his first fear, into a scared...

Although there are a lot more main characters than just two in the book I Know What You Did Last Summer, the two that stood out the most to me are Helen Rivers and Raymond Bronson. Helen Rivers was beautiful. She was the Golden Girl (or in other words, Weather Girl). Helen had brown hair with honey ...

The Fall of the House of Usher Classical gothic imagery is used throughout the story. Drippingly dark surroundings and terrifying ghostly symbols are used throughout to evoke a sense of fear. When the narrator approaches the house, he says he was struck by an overwhelming sense o...

Plot is described as the author's arrangement of incidents in a story. The plot is also what controls the order of events in a story. Without the plot, a story would not have any structure and there would be irrelevant information left in the story. What is left has meaning as the author bring...

\"Wild Things\" is a movie based on sex appeal, money, power, and greed. These things help all of the mysteries unravel. This reviewer was entertained by the twist after twist; it is also thought that the setting and the people that the actors portrayed were the key to making the plot believable. Wi...

For my first cultural event, I went to the Broadway event Stomp. This took place at the First Union Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. I really did not know what to expect going into this, and I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed the event. As you could gather from the title of the show, Stom...

"How I Met My Husband" After reading the story of "How I Met My Husband" by Alice Munro, I realized that life sometimes has surprising twists of fate and that you end up in a different place than you planned. In this story, the main character, Edie, wasted so much time waiti...