Anticipation and Suspense in the Adventure of the Speckled Band

Suspense is defined as the author withholding information or when the unexpected happens, leaving you guessing and wanting more. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, he has inserted much suspense in this short (long) story, for the reason that it makes the reader want to know more and having to mindset of excitement or surprise. Another reason he added many suspense is so that it wouldn’t be so blunt, it wouldn’t just tell us what happened it would give us details and how he got or how he did that and more.

Conan Doyle uses uses a combination of literary devices to build up tension and create a sense of mystery I chapter 3

* The author creates suspense by starting with the slow beginning and then making the story faster and more attention-grabbing. The author cleverly manipulates readers sense of disbelief by eliminating the possibility of police help or parental understanding. The author reveals the serial killer to the reader at the end of the story. By that time Duncan keeps searching him. Author slowly reveals the clues out of the lost journal of serial killer to make readers focus in the story. Also with the slowly

I found this story very exciting but most of all I like the part when

     The author wrote this story as a literary genius. There is an extreme level of suspense that leaves you wanting

The first way the author creates suspense in the story is by foreshadowing. When Captain Torres walked into the barber’s shop, the barber, “Started to shake,” (Tellez 1) indicating that the barber felt instant fear, when his enemy approached. This foreshadows that the barber knows the man and that he will be deciding to kill him or not. Foreshadowing creates suspense because it is a clue given to the reader. It is the reader’s job to guess what is going to happen in the story and that is what makes it interesting. Without foreshadowing the reader won’t be able to prepare what is going to happen next. Another scene where the foreshadowing technique is used was when the barber came up with his reasons to not kill Captain Torres. The barber contemplated in his mind, “Don’t want to stain myself with blood. Just lather, and nothing else,” (Tellez 2) which foreshadows that the barber is not going to commit murder.

The second way, the author creates suspense is by foreshadow. Foreshadow makes the story suspenseful by how the characters say something like are they going to die or are they going to live. When you ask that kind of question you are kind of telling yourself that you may not come back to the present.Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?” “We guarantee nothing,” said the official, “except the dinosaurs.”Once they got there he kind of thought that i may die i may get shot.In conclusion, the reader knows that it is suspenseful in the story when at the beginning he said will i come back alive or will i die and in the end he stepped of the trail as soon as they got back things were different ad so h will be shot in the

Another way Doyle creates suspense in his stories is that he makes deliberate culprits that seem suspicious; straight away the readers will think they have found whoever Holmes is looking for, but in the end the story is twisted around and the real offender is found the total opposite to what the reader was probably thinking. In Silver Blaze, to everyone it seems as if ‘Fitzroy Simpson’ was the culprit but everyone soon found out that it was the actual horse ‘Silver Blaze’. No one would have even thought of it to be the horse, so this one of the main ways suspense is created. Also it has the readers guessing who the actual criminal is.

One technique Richard Connell uses to create suspense is foreshadowing because in the beginning of the story he talks about how the island has a bad reputation, and he talks about how General Zaroff and Rainsford hunt together. First in the beginning of the story, Whitney and Rainsford talk about an island the yacht they are on is passing by and how it has a bad reputation. According to the text Whittney tells Rainsford, “‘It’s rather a mystery’... ‘The old charts call it ‘Ship-Trap Island’... ‘The place has a reputation--a bad one’” (Connell 1). The author is clearly using foreshadowing because he writes about an island that Rainsford will later get trapped on and how the Island has a bad reputation. This creates suspense because it makes the reader nervous about the island, making the reader want to know what makes the mysterious island so scary and dangerous. Next, toward the middle of the story, during dinner at General Zaroff’s mansion General Zaroff and Rainsford talk about the hunts General Zaroff like to go on and how Rainsford should join his next one. According to the text General Zaroff says to Rainsford, “‘Tonight,’ said the general, ‘we will hunt---you and I” (10). The author is clearly using foreshadowing because he writes about how Rainsford and General Zaroff will go on a hunt together where General Zaroff will hunt Rainsford. This creates suspense because it makes the reader want to know what General Zaroff likes to hunt and how

By using descriptive words and phrases to help us imagine the characters and setting the readers are drawn further into the suspense. Beginning with the descriptions of the carnival, usually a joyous time, it is not so joyous but mostly dark with the vision of “[dusk] one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival

You are on the edge of your seat, trying in vain to get the pages separated to see what happens next. This is what readers do when reading a suspenseful story. Because it is a suspenseful story, this is also what readers do when reading “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe creates suspense in his story by talking about the main character’s actions and the setting details.

To write in dialog would be more telling and concrete therefore lessening the effect of mystery. The most obvious plot is that the marriage of John and Kathy Wade is rapidly disintegrating. The disappearance of Kathy leads the reader to believe that the plot is to uncover a killer yet the author does not write this clearly. The reader must discover his or her own interpretations of the story. O’Brien moves the story from one locale to another both in past tense and present time therefore continuing the mystery of what is actually happening. His use of erratic events and locations in the plot development aid him in effectively weaving a web of mystery and confusion for the reader.

Sherlock Holmes used his observance to come to the conclusion that occurred at the end of “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” transcribed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In April 1883, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson experienced an encounter with Helen Stoner; Helen requested that Sherlock and Watson look into the case of her sister’s death. Holmes and Watson were recommended by a mutual friend of Helen’s. Helen Stoner and Dr. Roylott lived in Stoke Moran. Dr. Roylott, Helen’s stepfather, was an aggressive man. After Helen Stoner’s mother had perished, Dr. Roylott was left with her will until each girl got married. When married each girl would get one third of the money. Helen’s sister, Julia, had

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle utilizes many detail-oriented literary elements to develop the many adventures of the famous fictional British detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, John Watson. Long winded description and complex vocabulary are infused into Doyle’s writing to accentuate Holmes’s great intelligence. By incorporating such a heavy, educated tone upon the mysteries, the tales of Sherlock Holmes are expressed as very complicated stories that challenge readers in comprehension as well as encourage curiosity through puzzling cases.

The Characters of Douglas Stone and Lady Sannox in The Case of Lady Sannox are of prime importance as Conan Doyle introduces them to the reader before anything else. The exposition introduces the characters of Lady Sannox and Douglas Stone describing the “Notorious” Lady Sannox (p1) in the first sentence of the exposition indicating that this is an important statement that should provide the foundations for the reader 's interaction with her.