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Tell Tale Heart Suspense Analysis
In the story “Tell Tale Heart” the author Edgar Allen Poe uses his madness and intention to create suspense. The author builds the story in a way that there's excitement on every page that you read. He uses a different way of writing with his words, he writes his words like he's crazy and with intention. In the story he has the urge to kill the old man because of the man's eye that he thinks is eval. He explains how he kills the man very precisely, also he tells you how he was at the door of the old man's room ready to kill him when the man wakes up, (that's one way that he builds his suspense) and yells “WHO'S THERE” then he stops and waits for the man to lay back down and go to sleep so he can move on with his crime and kill the man, now at this point in the story the suspense is built to the top and you're on the edge of your seat waiting to see what happens next then he tells you that he hears the heartbeat of …show more content…
Yes, it’s how the author drew you into the story, had you sitting on the edge of your seat, biting your nails, wondering what's gonna happen next, longing for more. This is all called suspense. The author uses this tactics to pull you into his world, causing you to urn for more, he introduces you to the characters, making you feel like you know them, like their your friends or enemies depending on the book, then he sucks you in even deeper with a few plot twists you didn’t see coming, has you sitting up screaming, “no way”! Suspense makes connections with the reader and the book then brings it to life. Suspense brings you into the book, grabs your attention and takes you for a wild emotionally tantalizing ride. Basically suspense gets you in its hands and doesn't let you go all the way through the entirety of the book until you close the last page, sit back, gasping, saying to yourself, “wow, didn’t see that coming” and then you wanna read it all over again. That’s suspense and worth every page you

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