August Heat Short Story

According to statistics, the majority of people enjoy scary movies, including novels. People enjoy the thrill and suspense movies covey. They enjoy the goosebumps crawling up their skin and they also like the adrenaline pace throughout their entire body, they like the excitement that it causes. But do they know how the author creates such suspense? Imagine you’re walking in the streets, and out of nowhere you feel a strong energy take you right into a specific place. In that place you meet someone that could kind of predict your life, how would you react to it? In the story of “August Heat” by W.F Harvey, he creates suspense by James and Mr. Atkinson having coincidences in visions of them two meeting each other out of nowhere. The main characters from this short story are James Clarence Withencroft and Mr. Atkinson. In this story there is foreshadowing and reversal. It talks about how two men have visions of themselves

without knowing each other.
One of the suspense that will support my statement about the story would be in line 59 where the author says, “A sudden impulse made him enter to Atkinson’s yard.” At this time James is entering to that place where he felt the impulse. The line is mysterious because James felt something forcing him to enter that place. It creates suspense because in that part the readers don’t know what’s going to happen and people just wonder how things will end up once he enters to that unknown place.
In the story where it includes more suspense for the reader is in the part where it says “It was the man I had been drawing” which would be found in line 63. As right as James enter to the man’s yard, he saw the man he had been drawing sitting down. The readers feel more suspense in this part because the author is making the reader want to sense what event or problem will be faced next.
In this story, another example of suspense is in lines 103-109, where he foreshadows James's death and uses the tombstone as referring to his death.

Some words that were included in this inscription was “In the midst of life we are in death.” Not only in this part, but the whole tombstone creates suspense because it’s rare for a stranger to come up with a random name and not only that but to also sense or feel someone’s death.
To conclude, the author creates suspense by putting James and the man together. The author tries to show frightening parts to make reader want to expect more events in the story. As readers can see, there's many parts where the author tries to create suspense but in the suspenses above we could tell there are the main ones because the author explains more about it than the other ones. But, my argument here would be about my suspenses because the ones i’ve
talked about show the real importance of the story. What we can learn from these suspenses are that it makes a story get attention from the readers and a better

interest.