Unusually heard sounds can be scary and frightening. Creepy sounds can make the stories more suspenseful because they make it to were you want to know what happens next. This is because if you like the character you do not want anything to happen to them so you want to keep reading so that you know what happens to them. Sounds that are not usually heard such as a heart beating or other scary sounds like the death groan from "The Tell-Tale Heart" or the amount of panting and shuffling from the dead son from "The Monkey's Paw" help with the suspense because it makes it to where you know something bad is going to happen. Most of the time in stories you will want a character to be all right and to know what happens to them in the
Suspense is the build up of anxiety or excitement in a story. It is an incredibly useful literary element. People like to read suspenseful stories, and/or watch suspenseful shows and movies because suspense gets their hearts racing. Suspense in movies and books might keep the audience intrigued and make them wonder what will happen next. People also like suspense because they might like trying to figure out what will happen on their own. This will keep the audience intrigued because they want to know how close they were to the exact answer. There are many stories that display suspense and many different authors who wrote them. One book that used suspense was Cujo, by Stephen King. Cujo was a dog that was bitten by a bat. He then turns into
According to “The Tell Tale Heart” it says “I had talked more quickly- more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased. I aroused and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations, but the noise steadily increased.” This quote shows imagery because it uses elaborate word choice, giving the reader a better understanding of the overall plot. This bold word choice helps to build suspense because it makes the narrator seem mad, and that helps to grab the reader's attention. According to I Know What You Did Last Summer it states “A full year later, he stood, staring again at the story, and the same cold feeling touched his heart. The clipping was yellowed from exposure. Someone had handled it often, and read it many times. It creased down the middle and had the smell of old dollar bills.”This demonstrates suspense through imagery because it uses strong words to portray the true fear of the character. When you can feel the fear, it makes you want to turn the page to find out what Ray’s reaction would be. The author of “The Tell Tale Heart” mentions “It was the low, stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it was welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors
Picture yourself walking into your home from a good night spending, you put your stuff down and lay on the couch. Suddenly you hear footsteps upstairs and a big thump. Curiosity gets to you, so you go upstairs to check on what it was; no one could be in the house, you live alone. You walk into your room and start examining every corner, nothing. Once you’re about to leave the door slams shut, the light turns off, and the window shatters; trying to reach for the switch the light turns back on and in front of you a black figure stands and whispers your name slowly. This type of story is designed to make your heart beat as fast as a buzzer, they are known as horror stories. A writer tries to scare the reader by trying to relate to relate to everyone’s fear, or by using suspense. Suspense is needed for a good horror story; writers would use reversal or foreshadowing.
There is no doubt in the fact that The Monkey’s Paw (written by: W.W. Jacobs) and The Goldfish (written by: Etgar Keret) are very similar. What a lot of people fail see though, is that even with them being so similar, they aren’t. Each one has its own meeting and its own story to be told.
person. The story is more emotive if in first person, as it is as if
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1 The Monkey’s Paw “The Monkey’s Paw” is a short story written by the author W. W. Jacobs. Thestory was first published in England in the collection The Lady of the Barge in 1902. In the story, the person who receives the paw is granted three wishes.
In the first paragraph the scene is set and there is a contrast in the
Sound is an important element in Hitchcock's techniques. This created and amplified the suspense in the scene tremendously and it was a way to express character emotion. He uses surrounding sounds to amplify whatever
In the short story, "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, I came to the conclusion that Sergeant Major Morris was responsible for the sorrows that resulted from the monkey's paw. For instance, he was the one who owned the paw in the first place, allowed Mr. White to keep it, and even told them how to use it, stating on page 377, "Hold it up in your right hand and wish aloud."
The Simpsons episode “The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror II” is about a magical monkey’s paw bought by the Simpsons, a modern day family that lives in a town called Springfield. The family uses the paw to grant themselves four wishes. The wishes, they soon find out, all include repercussions that harm the family in some way. The book “The Monkey’s Paw” is about a family that is given a monkey’s paw by a friend that says it can grant three wishes. The family’s home in this story is Laburnum Villa, sometime in the past. At first the family is skeptical of the friends claim that the paw is magic saying, “If the tale about the monkey’s paw is not more truthful than those he has been telling us, we shan't make much out of it.”(Page 4, W.W. Jacobs). They then proceed to use the paw and are surprised to find that what they wish for is in fact granted but comes with terrible consequences. While “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror II” both share similar plots, the settings of the stories and the
...ng that brings the audiences neck hair attention. The loud sounds of them stepping on glass, knocking the mountain Jew can that rolls, the door making creaking sound that unsettles the zombies. These sounds were directly amid at unsettling the audience heart because as I viewer myself their so much tension and fear as they made their way through the hallway because of the silent ambiance and ominous music. All we hear is the guttural groans and growl as they sneak. Sound used in this scene made it horror because the minor scale key music that induce suspense and tension, the silent ambient, the lack of dialogue because only hand gestures were used. Mostly music and bit of sound effects were used however it was very effective in creating tension and suspense because after watching WorldWarZ. This scene is most tense scene in the film, because it gets your heart going
In Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein, sound is used as an effect to scare people and create a “spooky” feeling. They used the sounds of a storm with rain and thunder, the sound of footsteps coming up from behind people, and other noises like creaky stairs, floors, and doors. This created that “haunted” or “spooky” feeling that would be used over and over again in horror films for decades. When they used sound effects, it was to emphasize that something was either happening or about to happen.
To build suspense there is many ways like reversal like in Jurassic Park when the T-Rex saves the characters from the velociraptors, mood is scary, and foreshadowing the Raptor fight.The thrill of jump scares. Sometimes for fun. Suspense in movies can raise tensions and or lower tensions. Suspense is most effective when it is used in a main or eventful part of a story. A way that suspense was used was in Jurassic Park when the T-Rex was fighting all the kids in the car. Suspense is the feeling of what will happen next in the story to get the adrenaline
Another suspenseful part of the story is the fact that the narrator does not explain anything about the man. The readers don't know why he is in the castle or why he does not remember much of he past. Not knowing a lot of the plot and the the past experience of the man can be a bad thing, but in some cases, a horror story, it can be a good