Literary Analysis Of The Elevator By William Sleator

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The Elevator. Literary Analysis Fear is an unpleasant belief about certain myths , a person , or a animal. In the story the elevator the author william sleator shows fear by building suspense and showing that he tries everything to avoid his fear the character name is martin. Martin may suffer from claustrophobia , cacomorphobia , but my personal fear or experience is that i was in a elevator with a lot of people and the elevator had stopped. William Sleator shows that martin the main character in the Elevator is unable to overcome his fears by building suspense and shows that he tries to do everything to avoid his fears the text evidence i have is that ‘’ of course he was always uncomfortable in all of the elevators , afraid that they

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