Suspense In 'Lather And Nothing Else'

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Imagine reading this, the character is walking down to a party and she hears radom footsteps and with that all of the lights go out, then the writer leaves it at that. That makes the readers interested into reading on and it has suspense which will hook the reader even more. Therefore, the setting is the most significant part in creating suspense. One way that the setting is important is it gives details about where the story takes place. In the “Lather and Nothing Else” story it took place in the barber shop and it gives the reader information about what’s around the characters and then makes the story scarier. In Ted, it gav details saying where they were in the car and it was describing. An example for this is saying that people were

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