Suspense In Shooter By Caroline Pignat
Suspense in Shooter
The theme of Shooter by Caroline Pignat is developed through suspense and the characters coming to talk about their problems. In Shooter, suspense is built through the story of high school students trapped in the boy’s bathroom during a school shooting by introducing small details about much deeper issue without going into the full problems and their backstories.
To begin with, all characters in Shooter have issues, some with scholarships and parents, and social issues. The teens with issues drives the story by introducing the problems and when death isn’t imminent, the protagonist can take about their issues. “Despite the ending, I’m still glad our stories mixed like a crossover series . . . other characters
bring tension and conflict, problems and drama . . . that’s the key to a great story.”
Secondary point is that suspense is built in Shooter by giving each character issues that aren’t explained. Some may say that the suspense is built by there being an unknown shooter in the school, but I argue that suspense is built by giving the character’s problems, making them imperfect characters with flaws and tragic backstories, mental issues, and less-than-perfect. As you read about them, the more you want to learn about them, so you can relate to them easier. If nothing else, the characters represent the issues we won’t face. “The truth is there in black and white. Literally. But Xander isn’t to blame. All he did was hold up the mirror and show us what we’d rather not see.”
As shown in Shooter, suspense developed through suspense and the characters coming to talk about their problems. All in all, we can put ourselves in all the characters in Shooter, and isn’t that what Caroline Pignat wanted?
The theme of Shooter by Caroline Pignat is developed through suspense and the characters coming to talk about their problems. In Shooter, suspense is built through the story of high school students trapped in the boy’s bathroom during a school shooting by introducing small details about much deeper issue without going into the full problems and their backstories.
To begin with, all characters in Shooter have issues, some with scholarships and parents, and social issues. The teens with issues drives the story by introducing the problems and when death isn’t imminent, the protagonist can take about their issues. “Despite the ending, I’m still glad our stories mixed like a crossover series . . . other characters
bring tension and conflict, problems and drama . . . that’s the key to a great story.”
Secondary point is that suspense is built in Shooter by giving each character issues that aren’t explained. Some may say that the suspense is built by there being an unknown shooter in the school, but I argue that suspense is built by giving the character’s problems, making them imperfect characters with flaws and tragic backstories, mental issues, and less-than-perfect. As you read about them, the more you want to learn about them, so you can relate to them easier. If nothing else, the characters represent the issues we won’t face. “The truth is there in black and white. Literally. But Xander isn’t to blame. All he did was hold up the mirror and show us what we’d rather not see.”
As shown in Shooter, suspense developed through suspense and the characters coming to talk about their problems. All in all, we can put ourselves in all the characters in Shooter, and isn’t that what Caroline Pignat wanted?