Analysis Of Lucille Fletcher's 'The Hitchhiker'

-------Strange noises, eerie stranger, and phantasms are things that often pull an audience into a suspenseful story. In Lucille Fletcher’s The Hitchhiker a man is driving from his home in Brooklyn to the west coast. Along the way he continues to see a man who makes him nervous. Eventually, this vision makes him question his sanity. This play works because of the plot decision that the author has made. Fletcher uses the element to plot to create an effective story.

-------One of the first way she does a good job at developing her plot includes exposition and rising action. The exposition and rising action helps when the author puts Adam in a present position how he was talking to the man about the past but, was in the present weird …show more content…
Wondering what he is going to do next when he sees the man again? Or he may even give the man a ride to make me stop mocking Adam. “He looked as though he had been waiting there for hours then he looked up he hailed me.” (pg. 1004) Adam was telling how the man looked up and waved he feared him Adam did not like the fact that the man was hailing at him in the middle of nowhere. Adam lost it when the man tried to ask for a ride. He drove off looking left to right hoping not to see that rain on jacket or face again “I caught myself Searching the side of the road, waiting for him to appear.” (pg.1005) Adam was getting even more insane. He knew that the man would appear everywhere he is going there was no stopping this problem that he had. Adam had it in his head that he knows he would see him again. But had it even worse when he knew what he was going to do to him if he sees the man again. “I knew that I would see him again perhaps at the next turn of the road I know when I saw him I would run him down.” (pg.1007) Adam was at the point of running the man over if he sees him again. He was at the stage of the turning point or even worse for Adam the stage of insaneness!! The waiting and the would do anything to kill this man haunting me act that Lucille Fletcher tells is what makes the climate more special it gives the reader thinking about what happens in …show more content…
Adam picks up a woman he was so scared and creeped out till the point he needed someone to ride with but, it turned out being a bad idea. “Keep your eyes peeled on the road he will run up again maybe any minute now.” There! Look there!!!” (pg.1008) Adam was making a scene he was willing to kill. The hitchhiker and the women risking her life with the unnecessary driving he had to hit him. At this moment Adam knew that it was no use of fighting it he was going to see and be on Adam mind even if it killed him. “He waited for me at every other mile I would see his figure shadow less flitting before me.” Adam was getting tired every mile hour he knew the man would be their he is going eight-five miles to get him out his mind but it just could not work. Finally stopping to call anybody to ease the stress going threw him one person he could caught on was his mom. Little than he knew she was sitting in the hospital stressing over her son death. “I am trying to get a hold of myself. Otherwise I shall go mad outside it is night.” (pg. 1011) Adam is freaking out his mother thinking he is dead stressing over him in the hospital bed at this point he has no choice but to turn