A Sound Of Thunder Foreshadowing

Suspense, a noun, is “a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.” Suspense gives you adrenaline and a feeling that has you flying like you are on some roller coaster that is taking you high into the sky, with a large, quick plummet down to the bottom. Suspense like that is important to a story because it keeps the reader on their toes and makes them want to continue to read. To create this, authors can use conflict, irony, and foreshadowing in their stories.
To begin, in the Rights to the Streets of Memphis, the author, Richard Wright, uses conflict to create suspense in the text. For example, in this story, Wright told his mother that he is very hungry, and that is a conflict in the story. It creates suspense because he clearly hasn’t eaten in awhile, and so now it is damaging his physical health, to the point where he actually gets dizzy. He can’t get any food because his father walked out on the family, so now they have no money so that they can buy food. Also, when Wright had to fight the other boys in the street, that was a conflict. This too creates suspense because since he is so …show more content…
In A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury, foreshadowing is used to create suspense in the story. For example, in the text, when Eckles is told not to step off the path, he does it anyways despite the warning. This adds suspense because it makes you question what exactly is going to happen now in time, since Eckles stepped off the path, which he was warned could ruin the future. Another example of foreshadowing is when they talk about who won the presidential election. This also adds suspense because later in the story, you find out at Eckles changed time by killing a single butterfly, so later in the future, you see that since he made that small change, it added up so greatly that it made the whole future change. In the end, foreshadowing adds a lot of suspense in a