August Heat Suspense Analysis

“Horror stories are designed to make our pulses race and our skin tingle” ( pg. 90). Horror stories are made so people can get out of their comfort zone and experience something they wouldn't want to in life through a movie, book and plays. Horror stories come with a lot of different types of suspense and how the author or the director try to create suspense. A couple of ways they do that is foreshadowing, withholding the information from the reader, making characters choose between two different actions and a reversal of personality between characters. Horror films wouldn’t be scary if there wasn’t any suspense because that's what creates all the hype in the movies. In the short story August Heat the author shows suspense in different occasions in the story. “I found myself standing before a gate that led into a yard bordered by a strip of thirsty earth, where there were flowers, purple stock and scarlet geranium. Above the entrance was a board with an inscription Chas. Atkinson Monumental Mason Worker in English and Italian Marbles from the yard itself came a cheery whistle, the noise of hammer blows, and the cold sound of steel meeting stone. A sudden impulse made me enter. A man was sitting …show more content…
“We’ll look at the matter straight. If you can go back home to-night, you can take your chances of accidents. A cart may run over you, and there’s always banana skins and orange peel, to say nothing of fallen ladders.” (lines 155-158). “The best thing we can do,” he continued, “ is for you to stay here till twelve o’clock. We’ll go upstairs and smoke; it may be cooler inside.’ To my surprise I agreed (lines 161-163). This creates suspense because James just meet the people and he is already going to stay late. The reason this creates suspense is because nobody that meets somebody that day is at their house until 12. This part gives a sketchy prediction about what's going to happen later in the