Summary Of The Blue Bead

According to Statistic Brain, an average person’s attention span is approximately 8 seconds. If the author can “hook” the readers, meaning grab their attention, by that time limit, it is almost guaranteed that they will read the whole story. In order to achieve that, the author must begin with something intriguing and that is exactly what the writer of the short story “The Blue Bead” Norah Burke does. She commenced her story with the sentence, “From deep water came the crocodile”. This is an excellent “hook” because it sounds suspenseful and the readers will possibly want to know what will happen next. This is what the “element of suspense” is about. It is a technique in literature that modifies the plot of a story via suspense to make it