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...

The Lottery "The Lottery" is Shirley Jackson's dark and compelling short story about an annual ritual that takes place in what is ostensibly a typical small town in New England. It begins innocently enough on a "...clear and sunny...full-summer day...", but quickly take...

Ghost stories are a unique and enjoyable type of literature in which a reader creates a feeling of suspense. The reason for this being is that the writer chooses to end the story without a resolution. By doing this, it makes a reader look into their imagination and make their resolution. Two ghost s...

The characters in this part, "Hunting might not always turn out the way you want it to be". This is a short story called "The Most Dangerous Game", written by Richard Connell. Is about two hunters who were enemies becomes friends at the end. The short story, "The Most Dange...

The point of view in which a story is told has many effects on readers and how they perceive a story. Generally, stories are written in either first person or third person point of view. First person is when a character that is in the story, referred to as "I," tells the story and has ...

The use of irony makes stories enjoyable to read. Stories with irony keeps readers interested and in suspense. The use of irony Kate Chopin uses in the short story "The Story of an Hour" keeps readers attached to the story and lets readers understand Mrs. Mallard's true feelings about her husband....

City of LightCity of Light, by Lauren Belfer is a breathtakingly ingenious novel, which combines love, mystery and suspense. The novel contains, suspenseful situations, mysterious deaths, and the development of useful electrical power, which is then transported to modern factories and the Pan Ameri...

"Terrifying, suspenseful, and remarkable! These are the words describing a number one New York Times Bestseller, The Hot Zone. It is about a highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest that suddenly appeared in the suburbs of Washington D.C. There was no cure. In a few days...

MICHAEL CRICHTON Michael Crichton has presented the reader with some of the most engaging, timely, and thoroughly accessible tales to be published in the last twenty-five years. His works are well known to the public and are very popular due to the simplicity of the books context. Unlike the earl...

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 ...

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...

Bowen uses vast amounts of narrative in this story as opposed to dialogue. This, combined by her created objects of dramatic function and choice of language convey the feeling of suspense and intensity that she wants the reader to feel throughout the story. After detailed reading of the story, one...

The suspense thriller Camp Fear by Carol Ellis is a compelling story who's intricate plot, theme, characters, language and style make it an excellent read which you won't be able to put down. Therefore because of these reasons this novel should definitely be included in the reading list for future y...

We have studied two texts, throughout this year, written by John Marsden and Anthony Hill. The two texts are Tomorrow When The War Began by John Marsden and Soldier Boy by Anthony Hill. In this task I will be comparing these two texts. Uniquely, the two texts both deal with war and are also Austr...

Could it really be that Gregor Samsa has transformed from a human being into a fly? This sounds like something out of the X-files, but somehow it happens in \"The Metamorphosis,\" or at least that is what Kafka wants the reader to believe. To be able to read this story, the reader must think that ...

As a social critic and prominent feminist in the United States of the late 1880's, Charlotte Perkins Gilman had to overcome a lot of challenges. In the short story "the yellow wallpaper" Gilman once again defied society. The story is about a depressive woman who is socially c...

Edgar Allen Poe developed ten principles that apply to short stories. In the story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, these principles are shown throughout the story. The story is about a young girl who is living in a society from Earth on Venus. Venus has one hour of summer every 7 years and t...

Pop fiction is extremely popular with readers in the USA and also in Britain. Surprisingly, the sales statistics reveal that 33% are thrillers, 28% romance and 5-6% are written on science fiction, horror and fantasy. Pop fiction makes a good read because they ask the reader to read the book with sus...

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...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is praised and celebrated for many reasons, including for its unique narrative style. It is told by Mr. Lockwood, the current tenant of Thrushcross Grange, who commissions his housekeeper Nelly Dean to tell him the story of his neighbours at Wuthering Height...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" Nathaniel Hawthorne magically captures the attention and imagination of the reader in his short story "Young Goodman Brown." Through his use of mysterious symbolism, unique characters, and an intriguing plot, the author builds the suspense of the read...

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 ...