The Tell Tale Heart Suspense Analysis

Authors create suspense by explaining the setting, character’s characteristics, and use of phrases in a different way than usual. Authors create suspense in the beginning of whatever they are writing so that they can hook the reader into the story so that they will continue to read on. Explaining things in an unusual way forms suspense because you wonder what is happening and you see that something bad is happening. Authors create suspense in many different ways that keeps the reader reading. An example is the short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe creates suspense by explaining in the beginning about a man talking about himself about how he was not a madman and then beginning to explain a story. “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad. Hearken! and observe how healthy- how calmly I can tell you the whole story.” (Poe 354) Poe starts off by how this man …show more content…
“To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o’clock of a misty November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way… that was what Mr Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do.” (Bradbury 1) Bradbury describes the setting of the story and the time and creates suspense that way.. You know that the character is Leonard Mead and you wonder who this man is so you keep reading. Authors create suspense by many different ways, from the character’s characteristics to where the story takes place. These two examples, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Pedestrian” show two different ways an author creates suspense. When authors create suspense, it leaves the reader wondering what is going to happen and they feel excited so they continue to read on. You can create suspense in many different