How Does W. F Harvey Use Foreshadowing In August Heat

Who Knows What Will Happen Next...
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.

A reversal is a sudden change in a character’s situation from good to bad or vice versa just like the short story in the beginning.

Foreshadowing uses hints to suggest events later in the plot; just like in the short story, “August Heat” by W.F. Harvey. He uses foreshadowing by suggesting a frightening event that awaits the main character. “August Heat” is about two men, unknown to each other, whose glimpses of the other’s possible future suggest that one of them will die in some way. The narrator foreshadows, when Mr. Atkinson, the man that James drew, was engraving a stone and it had the James full name, the date he was born, and the date the he will pass away. Mr. Atkinson said that he didn’t see it anywhere, he just wanted a name, and it was the first thing that came into his

mind.
The setting can take place anywhere but once you get more into the story it can lead you to where you never thought it would. James just had a wonderful day he will never want to forget. He went for a walk on Lytton Street and ended up on Gilchrist, he was just going for a walk and ended up in front of a gate and into a yard full of flowers, about five or six miles away from home; how could he not know where he was going? Something told James to go in, once he entered he saw the exact same guy that he drew on his drawing but with a different expression. In the end of the story he ends up in Mr. Atkinson’s house.
The narrator might or might not end up dead but it does say that he died very suddenly. The ending creates a frightening effect because you don’t really know what’s going to happen next, it leaves you on the edge of your seat. The ending explains how he was scared and shaky while writing his journal; did Mr. Atkinson murder James to make sure his gravestone was right? Did James manage to go home the next day and continue with his day? There are so many questions that want to be answered but only one answer will be right.
Suspense is the uncertainty or anxiety you feel about what will happen next. Writers can also withhold information from the reader, they can even manipulate you in some way. They create suspense when a character we care about is in a bad or dangerous situation. Suspense can really make you get too attached to the story, it can drive you crazy. As you read on eagerly to find out how the story ends, you might even hold your breath without realizing.