To Kill A Mockingbird Suspense Analysis

Life was quite different in the deep south during the 1930’s. It was during that volatile

time when Harper Lee sets her enduring novel To Kill A Mockingbird. It was a time when

political correctness did not exist, but instead racial segregation ruled the day. To take her

readers back into that time, Lee uses suspense to draw her readers in and make them feel

as if they are a part of the story. Harper Lee weaves imagery and slowing of time

throughout her book to create suspense in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Harper Lee uses vivid imagery to create tension as the reader moves throughout the

story. In the beginning of the story, Scout and Jem always avoid a certain house, the

Radley house. The narrator describes the house