Suspense
Throughout the course of history, suspense has kept stories like, Arthur Doyle’s mysteries, the most sought out genre of all time. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. These stories have always been favored, and they are still popular today. But what makes them still just as exciting to read? Suspense. All these stories begin slow and move up to the action then the reveal. That is how almost every story is written, but Doyle’s even more. The main character, Sherlock Homes, is much more intellectually quicker than the readers. This helps build suspense because he solves the case quicker than the reader realizes. The suspense gives the story time to build, then draws the reader in, and makes the story seem more mysterious …show more content…
That problem may sound really elaborate and confusing like in the “Red Headed League” or much more simple like in the “Man with the Twisted Lip” then grow into something much more complicated. In the latter, the story seems very simple at first, Dr. Watson is approached by a woman who needs him to bring her husband home. Dr. Watson then goes to the opium den, finds her husband and sends him on his way home.(Doyle “The Man with the Twisted…” 69-70) Although the reader may have thought the story would be about that man they soon realize they have been misled. With such a turn of events, it may intrigue the reader as to why Doyle would do that. First, it helps lead the story because then, Dr. Watson then bumps into Sherlock. Sherlock who is there working another case similar to Dr. Watson’s. Doyle without the reader realizing it gives us an idea of what the case is and how it could pan out, through Dr. Watson’s small case. This causes suspense about whether the cases will end similarly or not. This little bit of mystery grips the reader for the rest of the …show more content…
This gives the reader more suspense because, they do not always know what is going on in each of the characters’ heads. The story then continues with the two solving the case and with each clue it seems even more confusing. In the end, after the case is solved it seems like the story could have been made shorter. The man they were looking was the same man they thought was the killer, and the only person in the room. The answer was right in front of them, but because the suspense was so high they expected the story to be much more complicated and elaborate. This caused the readers to miss what was right in front of them. This is a handy trick Doyle uses to keep the readers guessing until the end. The man they thought was killed, was really the beggar suspected of killing him. That story had many different characters and things happening throughout it and that kept the reader from figuring out the case before Sherlock did, it added to the suspense of the mystery. All the different actions the husband takes like sending a letter to his wife telling her he’s alright, even though he’s presumed dead (Doyle “The Man with the Twisted…” 79) This is done to throw off not just the characters, but Doyle does it to throw off the reader as
Throughout the course of history, suspense has kept stories like, Arthur Doyle’s mysteries, the most sought out genre of all time. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. These stories have always been favored, and they are still popular today. But what makes them still just as exciting to read? Suspense. All these stories begin slow and move up to the action then the reveal. That is how almost every story is written, but Doyle’s even more. The main character, Sherlock Homes, is much more intellectually quicker than the readers. This helps build suspense because he solves the case quicker than the reader realizes. The suspense gives the story time to build, then draws the reader in, and makes the story seem more mysterious …show more content…
That problem may sound really elaborate and confusing like in the “Red Headed League” or much more simple like in the “Man with the Twisted Lip” then grow into something much more complicated. In the latter, the story seems very simple at first, Dr. Watson is approached by a woman who needs him to bring her husband home. Dr. Watson then goes to the opium den, finds her husband and sends him on his way home.(Doyle “The Man with the Twisted…” 69-70) Although the reader may have thought the story would be about that man they soon realize they have been misled. With such a turn of events, it may intrigue the reader as to why Doyle would do that. First, it helps lead the story because then, Dr. Watson then bumps into Sherlock. Sherlock who is there working another case similar to Dr. Watson’s. Doyle without the reader realizing it gives us an idea of what the case is and how it could pan out, through Dr. Watson’s small case. This causes suspense about whether the cases will end similarly or not. This little bit of mystery grips the reader for the rest of the …show more content…
This gives the reader more suspense because, they do not always know what is going on in each of the characters’ heads. The story then continues with the two solving the case and with each clue it seems even more confusing. In the end, after the case is solved it seems like the story could have been made shorter. The man they were looking was the same man they thought was the killer, and the only person in the room. The answer was right in front of them, but because the suspense was so high they expected the story to be much more complicated and elaborate. This caused the readers to miss what was right in front of them. This is a handy trick Doyle uses to keep the readers guessing until the end. The man they thought was killed, was really the beggar suspected of killing him. That story had many different characters and things happening throughout it and that kept the reader from figuring out the case before Sherlock did, it added to the suspense of the mystery. All the different actions the husband takes like sending a letter to his wife telling her he’s alright, even though he’s presumed dead (Doyle “The Man with the Twisted…” 79) This is done to throw off not just the characters, but Doyle does it to throw off the reader as