Tell Tale Heart Suspense

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Have you ever noticed that when certain stories are read people experience the same thrills but in various ways?Elaborating on this topic was very interesting to explore, and it is suggested you indulge in it. Do you really want to see the way that the authors express their emotions and all sorts of feelings throughout their writing? Keep reading if that hits the interests of the audience. First we will talk about some of the experiences in the following stories, “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Open Window”. In both stories, the reader gets a sense of suspense although one is a “horror” book. The way that the authors show these emotions within the pages is incredibly interesting and saying more on this will benefit the readers. How they express those feelings of despair and sorrow is one story, but first suspense is going to be the star of this show. Suspense is a great that gives one an eerie feeling, like …show more content…

When horror comes to mind possibly thoughts of mass murders or something like The Exorcist , The Ring/Rings or even Stephen King books may occur. Normally when thinking of suspense things come to mind like, Hell or High Water or What Lies Beneath Normally it is expected that a suspense movie will have no horror in it but in movies like Blade it shows the scenes where the boy is entering the party and they first bare their fangs, it's a bit frightening, or when Blade comes in to murder all of the vampire, the audience may guess what's going to happen to the bystanders or Blade/the main character.Or, for horror, in The Ring when Rachel comes in to find her son sitting there watching the cursed tape and now he only has 7 days to survive. The emotions of Rachel are noted and it slowly builds up to seeing a small child so inoccent and sweet to find a tape, decide to watch it, and now only has 7 days left in his life, it all happens so fast, it breaks your safe

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