How Does Sherl Clark Build Suspense

The three short stories that are being investigated are ‘Fresh Bait’ by Sherryl Clark, ‘Lamb of the Slaughter’ by Ronald Dahl, and ‘Adventure of the Speckled Band’ by Conan Doyle. The trio of stories plot revolves around the investigation and solving of a crime. There are many similarities in the qualities of the victim, such as law abiding, innocent people whom the reader has empathy for. Sorrow and grief are feelings enabled in the audience when something happens to the victim. Authors, Conan Doyle, Ronald Dahl and Sherryl Clark creatively take the advantage of literary techniques while leaving no stone unturned in order to established suspense and construct an atmosphere for the audience through the use of setting and foreshadowing.
Suspense is shaped through an expressive setting on all accounts in the three short stories. Authors Sheryl Clark, Ronald Dahl and Conan Doyle each have an individual way of creating and describing the setting within each short story. ‘Fresh Bait’
has a remote setting where the audience is force to feel hopeful for the surreptitious sister of the victim who is trying to find out who was the murder of her sister. In contrast to ‘Lamb of the Slaughter’, the setting is fairly blunt and visual, the Maloney household. An illustration of this is ‘The room was warm and clean, the curtains were drawn, the two table lamps alight – hers and the one by the empty chair opposite’. The audience can deduce that the short story is set in a house from this quote in the opening lines of the text. Further down the page, Roald Dahl writes that Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband to come home from work. The audience can gather this information and assume that the short story is set in the Maloney family household.
Another literary technique used throughout the three short stories is foreshadowing as it is directed towards the reader to establish the element of suspense.
Through the whole of the short stories, there are numerous examples of foreshadowing. There are numerous times when the authors want to let the reader find something out that will lead to something that is going to happen in the future. Foreshadowing can create suspense as the reader is waiting for an event to happen. For example,
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In conclusion, the three short stories successfully builds suspense in the direction of the audience through the use of literary techniques of setting and foreshadowing. Each short story has a protagonist that the audience feels sympathy and compassion towards and an antagonist that the audience wants revenge on. Using the two literary techniques of suspense and foreshadowing, both can enlighten one another to make the stories come to
life.