Examples Of Suspense In The Tell Tale Heart

Reading provides us more suspense than a performance does. For example, in the Tell-tale Heart the main character waits at the door for an hour. This builds suspense by making us thinking about what will happen next. In a performance you can’t build that much suspense because you can’t have a character wait by the door for an hour. I don’t about you, but that would not be a play that I would want to watch. Also in the Tell-Tale Heart, the long paragraph about the sound in the narrator’s head builds up lots of suspense. The performance did include this, but while you were reading you were questioning what the sound was, making it more suspenseful as you read on. In the Monkey’s Paw, when you read the book the characters went to sleep after they wished with a heart of disbelief. Nothing happened right a way making us wonder if the paw was a fake. The next day nothing happened when they woke up, nor did something happen during the day. Not until late at night did the wish come true in a very …show more content…
For example, in the Monkey’s Paw the author never says the age of the Hubert. While reading, I imagined him as a twenty-five year old, but in the performance someone else’s view was totally different then mine. In the play, Hubert was a twelve year old boy. In the Necklace, I imagined that the wife had grey hair, circles around the eyes, and callused hands. In the performance they didn’t make this detail as important, and the couple were presented as sad and poor. In the story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, you never find out what happens to the Ichabod Crane. You are left to imagine whatever you my like. I personally thought that he did end up fleeing the town, and this time the director’s of the play thought the same thing. I would have liked it better if they wouldn’t have acted out him leaving the town, because the author left us to make our own ending of the book. I enjoy things more when they let me believe what I want