Different Techniques To Create Suspense In Literature
Suspense is the extraordinary inclination that a crowd of people experiences while hanging tight for the result of specific occasions. It essentially leaves the audience holding their breath and needing more data. Like in the short story Jaws and A Good Man is Hard to Find there are many suspenseful moments leaving the audience wondering what can happen next. 'Jaws' is a thriller whose primary objective is to build up tension and suspense. Peter Benchley utilizes many variants of language techniques in the novel to highlight significant points that create suspense. He also utilizes the structure of sentences and paragraphs in many distinct ways to influence the reader. Steven Spielberg creates particular dialog to demonstrate the feelings and emotions of the victims.
The 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor includes foreshadowing, or hints of serious risk, one is hit at the end of the tale by the unexpected violence. If the story is read a second time, however, the reader can see certain indications of foreshadowing that suggest the story's end. It is very convincing through the method of powerful imagery by O'Connor to foreshadow the individuals and the events in the tale. There are two important timing the story started with the grandma not wanting to travel to Florida, but to Tennessee where she has some friends to see. She dresses in her finest Sunday ironically. She is dressed very nicely with, 'A navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet'.
Secondly, the foreshadowing of the family's death is the graveyard when they 'passed by a cotton field with five or six graves fenced'. It's not an accident that the 'five or six' burial numbers match the precise amount of individuals in the vehicle. Even though there are five individuals and a child, a child is obviously not a complete individual. It is therefore suitable to say that the amount of five or six gravestone. Oates creates a tense mood in the reader's heart during her Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? short story's last few pages by creating an intensely and rapidly growing fear within Connie, her protagonist. This fear that Connie has comes from the actions of Arnold Friend as well as his words of her not-so-new acquaintance. Arnold utilizes his speech and actions to force Connie and his pose to come with him. Arnold's word selection also affects the story's suspense build-up. Arnold tells Connie to the end of the plot that she's his 'lover,' and she doesn't understand precisely what that entails yet, but she's going to. It is disturbing that Arnold takes ownership of Connie and adds to the build-up of intense emotion.
Furthermore, when Arnold forces Connie to come out or he'll break in, he convinces Connie that when Connie refuses to come in, she doesn't 'want to put her family into the situation.' This can be viewed as a threat to harm her family unless she gives it to him, which would obviously increase all feelings. As the tale ends, Arnold utilizes the insecurities of Connie to coax her out of the house by telling her that she is 'better than her family and that not one of them would go through a scenario like this for her.' The fact that Arnold turns against her a vulnerable portion of Connie can definitely scare the viewer and cause tension to increase. Overall, Arnold is the cause of Connie's fears, and what plays into this fear is the actions of Arnold as well as his words. To create this mood within the reader, Oates uses Arnold as the antagonist. Characterization of Arnold is what produces the mood filled with suspense throughout this short story.
