Lather And Nothing Else Suspense

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“Lather And Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez, shows suspense in many ways, by using key elements. The key element that Tellez uses, develops suspense in the story. Tellez uses many different elements to show suspense like using mood and tone to make us feel something. In "Lather And Nothing Else” Tellez used style, the point of view, and pace to build suspense into the story. In "Lather And Nothing Else" Tellez uses the style to create suspense in the story. Although the story is two pages long he builds suspense by using the style. The style is elements a writer chooses to put in his story. Of two page to make you want to keep reading on because you never knew if the barber was going to kill Torres. Tellez used long and short sentences to create even more suspense. When the barber was getting anxious about if he was going to kill Torres or not the sentence was getting a lot shorter because he couldn’t decide if he was going to kill him or not. …show more content…

The point of view was the barber who was a rebel spy, who spies on Torres. So when Torres came in the shop he got anxious. The point of view made it suspenseful because you never knew if he was going to use the blade to kill him or not. “So what? Murderer or hero? My destiny depends all on this blade.” This quote is describing how the bearer may or may not kill him. The point of view made it suspenseful because the barber through the point of view was scared that he may know he's a rebel and if he's going to kill him. And as the story goes on it gets more suspense because the barber became more and more

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