Word Choice And Suspense

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The author chose to establish mood with word choice and suspenseful dialogue, I know this because in the short film and story the author and director uses big words that we somehow know, and also very suspenseful conversations. Like when mother was crying at night and told the father to wish her son back alive, and the words that the director chose were really good, Also this is an example that was used in both the story and film.

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