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...

Drama Critique - I K now What You Did Last SummerOn October 27th 1997, I attended the movie " I know What You Did Last Summer" at Sherway Cinemas. The movie was a suspenseful horror film. Four friends, Helen, Barrie, Julie and Ray are celebrating the fourth of July. They are all hyped up and when...

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 ...

As Daphne du Maurier finished her novel, she said to herself, "So it was. A finished novel. Title, Rebecca. I wondered if my publisher would think it stupid, overdone. Luckily (for me) he did not. Nor did the readers when it was published." Little did d...

It was a morning like any other. I got dressed, ate breakfast, and loaded and grabbed my book bag. I got picked up by a couple of friends, and off to school I went. It was a regular school day. Hundreds of teenagers were walking through the long well lit hallways. When suddenly my normal day t...

"He was well aware of their power of adaptation, their sense of discipline, their marvelous talent for organization." Some might think that a well trained army of soldiers was the subject of this statement, not an insect of thumbs length. Ants are thought to be small, insignificant creatur...

Shattering Glass by Gail Giles is a very suspenseful and disturbing look at what it takes to be popular. In Chapter one, it starts off by saying "I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him." It gets right to the poin...

The Thing The Thing is a cult classic film that was based on a short story by famed science-fiction author John W. Campbell, Jr., entitled 'Who Goes There?' John Carpenter directed the Movie in 1982, and is a remake from an earlier edition made in the 1950's. In Carpenter's work ...

2001 A Space OdysseyLike so many fiction writers, Arthur C. Clarke always tries to offer the audience a few suspenseful moments in his novel. The key for such success lies in the human's perpetual appetite for mystery. It doesn't take long for a writer to create an enigma, but it d...

A murderer and dancing shoes. What do both of these have in common? That really puts a wondrous question in my mind. "A page turning....thoroughly engaging.... splendid suspenseful fiction."- The New York Times Book Review. That is the same reaction I got after I got done reading this book. It ...

As I entered English this year it was with a knot in my stomach and a sense foreboding lingering in the back of my mind. I was not exactly keen to return to a subject that for me, personifies my inadequacies on paper. At a point somewhere around the second day of class we began a discussion on what ...

OHSAA eligibility rules should be clearer for everyone to read I believe the Ohio High School Athletic Association's(OHSAA) eligibility rules should be made easier to understand. The controversies over the rules of accepting gifts in the last couple weeks in uncalled for. I think the OH...

Plagiarism, in general, is when you use someone else's ideas without giving them credit. There are different types, or levels, of plagiarism. If a source is copied exactly, it is called word-for-word plagiarism. If the idea is still there but the words have been rearranged or slightly change...

"The Tell-Tale Heart" was first published as a "horror" story in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843, and it appeared again in The Broadway Journal on August 23, 1845. The story narrates the process of a planned murder of an old man by, what appears to be, his caregiver o...

When reading Ambush by Tim O\'Brien, I was a little thrown off. It seemed to start very abruptly and I wasn\'t too clear on the direction it was going. There was no real background information, like which war it was about, or even an introduction, so I had to read the first two paragraphs over again...

Joseph Conrad suffered from a sudden visit from reality. Before he went took a trip to the Congo, he thought he was still a youth; he had an adolescent mindset of invincibility. However, in the Congo, Conrad realized, "Hey, I'm old." He became "self-conscious." From then on,...

\"Into the Woods\" combines suspense, excitement, and a fascinatingly realistic set design to captivate the audience. Halfway through the play, I found myself and my classmates thinking \"Wow! What a play! How could anyone dream up such a crazy idea and turn it into production?\" I think this is the...

How does Chopin present the main characters and why? Miss Nathalie is together with a rich, but unattractive man called Brantain. She is sly, cunning, and a cat-like character. Chopin includes 'the cat that lay curled in her lap' in the story to relate it to the main character, Mis...

In this essay I am going to compare the two stories The Red Room and The Signalman. I think that these two stories are a bit on the dull side as we are subjected to much more intense and more imaginative 'experiences' (novels, films, etc...), but they were probably some of the greatest stories of t...

This story was good because of the suspense the man has when he doesn't know what is going on with his wife. After his wife heard what happened to her family, being sent to prison, she got really nervous. But I think the moral of the story is that when something critical happens you are never ...

Freeze Tag I just read the book Freeze Tag by Caroline B. Cooney. I thought that this book was excellent! This was one of the best books I have read in a very long time. This book was very supportive, and it told many more things about the characters, which is what I like because it made...

A New Found Friend The tight bonds of friendship that are formed at a young age are often the most impressionable. They shape and mold individuals for a life time. The relationship I formed with my puppy helped me blossom into the conscientious and loyal young adult I am today. I Still rememb...

HEDDA GABLERThe more I read and look into Hedda Gabler the more I like itand appreciate Ibsen's efforts. It is kind of a pre-modernistic soapopera. Each character exhibits a complex set of traits, some good andsome wicked. All the traits play off of one another and create depthand familiarity.The wo...

Robert A. Heinlein a famous American science - fiction writer, because of his interesting stories and the way that he shows fear and the thoughts in his characters, in his story Friday he did just that in chapter on by showing that in chapter one on page one in the first line by letting you know tha...

The new and exiting ways of modern day computers and their increasingproliferation have definitely transformed the human and machine identity.As Turkle indicates computers have ceased to be simple logical machines,which just 'did the job for us' but now have a subjective influence on us,affect...