Suspenseful Images In The Monkey's Paw By W. Jacobs

“The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W Jacobs is about a family who gets their hands on a magical relic. After making a wish tragedy strikes. Jacobs creates a suspenseful plot. He does this by creating eerie images, sounds, and dialogue.
Jacobs’ ability to create images in your mind supports the suspenseful feeling. This is because we are to see what the characters are thinking. The readers can see their emotions, like when the White family is informed of Herbert’s death. The reader can see their expressions on their faces, just blank with no others feelings. “Caught in the machinery,” repeated Mr. White, in a dazed fashion, “yes”. He sat staring blankly out the window. By creating images in our head we can also what might happen, like when Mrs. White wished for Herbert to come back to life. You could imagine what his corpse would’ve looked like. Ripped up and walking which is creepy. These images would support the suspenseful feeling because you would get scared imagining a dead person at your front door.

The knocking at the door makes a suspenseful feeling because if you hear knocking you think what is there. If you don’t know what is there you feel scared because you think if that thing is dangerous or not. Another sound that would sound strange is silence. Normally, if you hear silence you expect something to happen. Scary or not you expect something to happen. A third sound that would sound strange is rumbling because if you feel rumbling then that means something is happening. It would feel scary if it’s unexpected. Knocking and dead silence would be suspenseful the most. Knocking signifies that something is here. Silence makes you wonder what will