know each other‚ even the son of the Ramirez family was getting along with me. Everything seemed to be normal until‚ Mr. Henderson’s phone rang and he decided he needed to answer the phone call. He looked quite scared when he was talking on the phone‚ but i decided to ignore it. Once he was done with the phone call‚ he gave his sincerest apologies and he left. After maybe another hour‚ dinner was over. As the Ramirez family was leaving‚ Chris‚ their son‚ asked if he could spend the night at my house
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make it more suspenseful they use things such as giving you time to think what might happen and ‚using words to give you an idea of how fast things are happening and why they are doing it like that. They use many of these things many times to create suspense throughout the whole story. One way that time makes the story more suspenseful is by giving you more time to think about what is going to happen. This happened when the sniper light a match but it was dangerous and they waited til the next paragraph
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J.B. Priestly presents Arthur Birling as a self obsessed‚ work oriented “hard-headed business man” in Act 1. The stage directions describe him as a “heavy-looking‚ rather portentous man” giving an impression that he looks rather threatening. He is very traditional and speaks formally‚ even around his family. He has worked hard to raise himself up the social ladder and is proud to think that he’s going to be knighted. Even at his daughter’s engagement party‚ Birling’s head is still wrapped around
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An Inspector Calls is a play set in 1912. In the play‚ Gerald and Sheila are enjoying an engagement party when intrudes a ‘police inspector’ who reveals that a lower class woman drank disinfectant and died. The inspector gradually reveals that every member of the family plays a part in the girl’s death. What is important about this play‚ and at first seems irrelevant‚ is that it is set in 1912. What must be remembered is that today if a young woman was struggling with the dilemmas that Eva Smith
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An inspector calls is set in 1912 but was written and perfomed in 1945/46 to a post war generation.Setting the play before the first world war enables priestly to make the most of class divison and social hierachy in england.Priestley has used throughout this play the devices of dramatic irony and foreshadowing. He shows lies‚ deceit‚ wickedness and weakness within the characters. The play can be seen as a microcosm of society with different attidues being shown in different characters. Priestl was
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Do you like suspense stories? If so‚ “Sorry Wrong Number” by Lucille Fletcher and “Sorry Right Number” by Stephen King are two very good suspense stories. The plot of both of the stories are centered around phone calls. Both stories center around a mysterious phone call. In “Sorry Wrong Number”‚ the phone call is about someone’s murder. And in “Sorry Right Number‚” the phone call is about a woman crying‚ she says “ Take… please take… t-t- take him to the hospital. He is going to have a heart attack
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I walked on briskly‚ trying not to look back. Somebody was following me. I could feel it. I continued to walk‚ counting my steps‚ making sure I didn’t step on any cracks; believe me‚ I’m not the superstitious kind‚ but‚ yet‚ I felt wary. Splat. A raindrop landed right on my nose and it dripped down my face. I hated the rain‚ every drop on your head feels like an egg that is being smashed on your face. I wiped the rain of my glasses with my gloves. One step‚ two steps‚ three steps. I stopped
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elements to build suspense and tension? I have recently read Richard Connell’s short story‚ The Most Dangerous Game‚ and I loved it! Connell creates a very unique plot and setting. He uses many descriptive words that causes the mood of this story to become quite suspenseful and helps create a mysterious atmosphere. This interesting “hunt” that General Zaroff had created made the story a whole lot more intriguing. Connell uses setting‚ as well as characterization to build suspense in this story
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Priestly portrays the character of the Inspector as an unconventional figure on stage‚ this is due to the way in which he expresses his thoughts‚ his personality and the way in which he conducts the investigation. In act 1 he is very direct‚ in the way he talks to the family‚ unlike other inspectors‚ who would be politer and indirect when asking questions about what they have done‚ “cutting through‚ massively”. In addition to that‚ the stage directions‚ in which he is described as having an “impression
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Government Inspector is a sardonic play by novelist Nikolai Gogal and directed by Tina Kronis. The play was about how a town shows corruption and ignorance. The setting in the play takes place before the Russian Revolution. The two main actors in this play were Kasper Svendsen‚ who played the mayor of the town‚ and Aidan Davari‚ who played the St. Petersburg’s official. The Government Inspector‚ was about how a small Russian town was having an unexpected visit from a government inspector who was going
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