Crime frequently leads the reader to curiosity due to its mysterious plot twist throughout the story, leaving the audience to wonder and question themselves. The crime genre is built up in many different ways. This includes the elements that make up the crime genre, including the most important element that are mystery, detailed writing and suspense. Mystery engages the reader to think outside the box whilst inserting in confusion to the reader’s mind. Detailed writing allows the reader to visualise the storyline better and suspense leads the reader in knowing or not knowing about the situation. These elements are essential to the central idea of the crime category. To summarise, crime is a genre filled with elements which attracts the reader to read further on in the story of ‘Rats’ by Jack Heath, ‘The Thieftakers’s Apprentice’ and ‘The Fortress’ by Lucy Sussex.
Mystery enables the reader to explore the idea of a crime of the unknowns leading the audience to curiosity. As a result, Heath used mystery as an element which encourages the reader to think outside the box with the twist and …show more content…
By doing this, Heath demonstrates detailed writing as an element in his short story ‘Rats’, to expound to the reader what Bromham had discovered. “The middle aged woman’s eyes was so wide that the whites were visible all around the irises”. (pg 56). Furthermore, Sussex shows the use of vocabulary she uses to describe the scenes in the short story of the ‘The Thieftaker’s Apprentice’. “Down I fell, through the grass and sedge into shallow, filthy, brackish water.” (pg 66) This element shows the actions happening in this scene when the thieftaker’s apprentice fell over his nag. Therefore, detailed writing is an element that strengthens the audience’s mind of visualisation to know the significance of what’s happening in the short
Mystery enables the reader to explore the idea of a crime of the unknowns leading the audience to curiosity. As a result, Heath used mystery as an element which encourages the reader to think outside the box with the twist and …show more content…
By doing this, Heath demonstrates detailed writing as an element in his short story ‘Rats’, to expound to the reader what Bromham had discovered. “The middle aged woman’s eyes was so wide that the whites were visible all around the irises”. (pg 56). Furthermore, Sussex shows the use of vocabulary she uses to describe the scenes in the short story of the ‘The Thieftaker’s Apprentice’. “Down I fell, through the grass and sedge into shallow, filthy, brackish water.” (pg 66) This element shows the actions happening in this scene when the thieftaker’s apprentice fell over his nag. Therefore, detailed writing is an element that strengthens the audience’s mind of visualisation to know the significance of what’s happening in the short