Sonta For Harp And Bicycle By Joah Aike

The Mysterious Building My favorite short story was the “Sonta for Harp and Bicycle” written by Joah Aiken. The story was taking place during Halloween in London and about this guy Jason that wants to know why everyone has to leave work by 5 o’clock every night. Only certain people know why.
Miss Golden (Bernice), a friend of Jason’s, knows why but can’t tell anyone. One night, Jason went inside the building using the fire escape to see what goes on in the building after dark. Jason went through doors and heard a bell that was ringing quietly and then was silenced. Then Jason heard this person whispering “Daisy, Daisy” (Ms. Bell). Jason said that he wasn’t Daisy and the voice said he was on private property and he shouldn’t be here. This person was pushing Jason to the fire escape. Jason ran down the fire escape as fast as he could. The next day Miss Golden saw Jason’s hair and it
It was suspenseful when everyone had to leave the building by 5 o’clock pm. I wondered what Jason is going to find in the building when he went in there after hours. Is Jason going to live for five days after he left the building? A suspenseful moment is when “Jason opened a door at random; then another, offices lay everywhere about him, empty and forbidding” (50). Jason thinks he shouldn’t be in there. Everything seemed like people just left but he could still feel a presence of someone there. The setting is another part that is my favorite literary element that helped make this story come to life. The setting was in London during Halloween at night. Jason and Miss Golden went down the fire escape ten minutes before midnight. Then Jason said “We don’t want our evening to be spoiled by the thought of a curse hanging over us” (56). Jason wants to make sure the curse will not come true. Jason and Miss golden jumped out of the building so they don’t have to deal with the curse if it ever comes