Have you Ever read a Book about a awful outbreak? If so it must of been the book ¨ The Hot Zone¨ The Hot Zone is written by the author ¨Richard Preston¨ The book is about the outbreak of the virus called ¨Ebola¨ and it talks about how ebola killed a lot of people. The virus is transmitted by close and direct physical contact with infected bodily fluids, the most infectious being blood, faeces and vomit. How does The author ¨Richard Preston use 3 types of literary techniques to create Suspense in his book? The Author uses the setting, plot development and tone or mood. Richard Preston uses the setting to create suspense in his book because the setting gives you details of how the virus became dangerous . For example the setting had a cave
Baseball is Michael’s only way to a better future. Michael, the main character in the book “Heat” by Mike Lupica, is a 12 year old boy who moved to New York from Cuba. Michael is gifted. He has an arm that throws baseballs super fast. But with his dad gone Michael can’t prove his age to the baseball team and the team needs his pitching skills. In the book Heat the symbol is Yankee Stadium. This symbol represents the main characters future. But the theme of the book is “family can come from the most unexpected places.”
The book jumps to a distressing story about Peter Los in 1970 in West Germany who became ill due to smallpox. After ten days he was hospitalized but medical staff did not realize he had smallpox, which is highly contagious. Preston gives vivid descriptions of the disease and how it ravages the body. Los survived his illness, but caused an epidemic that killed many others that had become exposed to him. “Today, the people who plan for a smallpox emergency can’t get the image of the Meschede hospital out of their minds.
The setting in american literature has a great meaning and reason. It affects how the characters feel, affects how the character acts, affects what is about to happen in the story, and affects the mood for the readers. The setting affects all of these things greatly and deeply. First example of how setting is powerful comes from the story “Ambush” by ™ o’Brien. “Shortly after midnight we moved into the ambush site outside my Khe” (Tim O’Brien 812). This first clue to the setting lets us the reader know everyone is tired, exhausted or both. Since it's midnight it's also pitch black dark witch is scary because it hides the unknown. The fact that they are outside when it's pitch black adds suspense. “The night was foggy and hot” (Tim O’Brien 812).
Max Brooks makes a similar point in his faux-documentary novel World War Z. Brooks, under his own name, takes the part of an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission to recount the history of the fictional World War Z. Because the novel is in the form of journalism, the narrative is fragmented and mostly implied; there is no protagonist, but Brooks does return to several “interviewees” multiple times. Although the true origin of the zombie pandemic is unknown, the story begins in China after a zombie from a previous outbreak bites a young boy. The Chinese government attempts to contain the infection and concocts a crisis involving Taiwan to mask the true purpose of increased military activity. The infection is spread to other countries by the black market organ trade and by infected refugees seeking a cure; an outbreak in Cape Town, South Africa finally brings the plague to global attention.
Suspense is a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. Authors like Bradbury use this to easily draw in the reader to the story, and keep the reader’s attention. elaborate Bradbury most commonly uses this in his book Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury uses suspense in almost horrific ways such as deaths, and the common overdoses that were mentioned.
The Plague (French, La Peste) is a novel written by Albert Camus that is about an epidemic of bubonic plague. The Plague is set in a small Mediterranean town in North Africa called Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux, one of the main characters, describes it as an ugly town. Oran’s inhabitants are boring people who appear to live, for the most part, habitual lives. The main focus of the town is money.
The theme of Richard Preston's Hot Zone seems deal with man's one predator, the invisible one, the one thing that man cannot seek out and conquer, the one that lurks unseen and undetected in the shadows waiting for a warm body to make its new breeding ground in, with total disregard for person, social class, or status. We are "meat", as the biologists at the USAMRIID Institute stated, no names, no faces, no "individuality", the virus rips through our bodies with no thought, mechanical reproducers who sabotage our cells and used them as incubators until their "offspring" replicate to the point the cell wall bursts, releasing hundreds of new virus particles. Literally thousands of these "killers", as humans see them can be held on the point of an ink pen.
The setting and atmosphere bring true emotion to the reader that allows people to possibly get a glimpse of what that kind of life might be like. Survival is a consistent theme that is shown throughout the novel. The conflicts each character faces brings inspiration to the reader and reminds you that maybe what we are going through right now might not be so bad. Works Cited Donoghue, Emma. A great idea.
Setting - Identify the physical (when/where) settings of the book. How do these settings affect the moods or emotions of the characters?
The setting or settings in a novel are often an important element in the work. Many novels use contrasting places such as cities or towns, to represent opposing forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of the work. In Thomas Hardy's novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, the contrasting settings of Talbothays Dairy and Flintcomb-Ash represent the opposing forces of good and evil in Tess' life.
One such way is it’s way to create a suspenseful atmosphere. “The Tell-Tale Heart” uses gore and murder to create it. How? Well, in the story there is a paragraph that perfectly fits the claim: “My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears, but still they sat and still chatted. The ringing became more distinct. --It continued and became more distinct, I talked more freely to get rid of the feeling but, it continued and gained definiteness --until, at length, I found that the noise was not within my ears. No doubt I now grew very pale; --but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice. Yet the sound increased --and what could I do? It was a low, dull, quick sound --much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.” Edgar Allan Poe combined many elements to give it a suspenseful tone. He incorporated repetition. Earlier in the story, the man described the heartbeat of the old man as “a watch’s sound enveloped in cotton”. Edgar Allan Poe used the repetition to make us think a little, and to strike fear into our hearts. Edgar also incorporated repetition through the description of the sound increasing in intensity and volume. It make the reader cower in fright as the sound loomed over the pages with it’s frightful
Albert Camus’ The Plague is an influential existentialist novel that vividly depicts the impact of a plague have on a community. Set in the French Algerian city of Oran in the 1940s but based on the Black Plague that swept Europe in the Middle Ages, Camus draws on a large cast of character to portray and embody the historical impact that the plague on both the populace and society. Uniting the experiences of the various characters is Doctor Rieux, who play the role of a plague chronicler, and in the process demonstrates the impact of the plague on religion, social structures, and community morals.
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.
Setting: In the film Twilight directed by Catherine Hardwicke, setting is a very important convention used, because it gives the audience some sort of a mood to make them feel scared and tells us a lot about a character and their personalities. This narrative feature is shown in the scene where the main character Edward Cullen takes Bella to the forest and starts talking to her, and tells her who he really is, it was a very spooky area which also relates to Edward because he’s a vampire and can only go to place where there’s no sun, because the sun will change will make him sparkle and change the colour of his skin. Settings like these are used in vampire and horror films to make the audience feel scared.
Imagine living your everyday life, when a fiction like phenomenon occurs. The Earth’s surface is fried up like a bead of sweat drying on your arm in the heat. And on top of it all, an outbreak that spreads like wild fire that eats your brain away. The young survivors in, The Kill Order, have faced the odds and survived. Mark and Trina are teenagers that have abandoned their home in New York City in search of a safe haven. When the youngsters stumble upon an older man, Alec, he helps them escape the insidious subway system filled with dangerous men. The small band of survivors builds a village outside the city that was destroyed by invaders. Most of the inhabitants were infected with the virus in the invasion. Mark, Trina, Alec, Deedee, and