In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, uncertainty, one of the three elements of narrative tension, is the most clear out of the three. In part one, we are just getting to know the narrator and trying to figure what or whom he is. Even if we are sure, we know who he is. The Author writes, “I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity” (Zusak 23). This show Uncertainty because, the reader is trying to figured out whom it is and they are anticipate on trying to figure it out while we are reading the story. In addition, it makes us anticipate what the outcome will be, but it also makes the reader doubt themselves at the same time, making them uncertain of what will come.
The uncertainty in this is the most outstanding
The uncertainty in this is the most outstanding