In The Monsters are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling, the play is a good example of how the character’s actions or events advance the plot of the story because of how the author’s plot advancements changes. According to the passage, Mr. Goodman’s lights turn on. The quote says, “Now, I suppose that’s supposed to incriminate me! The light goes on and off…” These events are tied together because it makes Mr. Goodman looks more suspicious than he was when his car started by itself. The group of people suspect that he is different than them. The author says that Charlie killed Van Horn. The quote states, “No more talk, Steve. You’re going to talk us into grave! You’d let whatever’s out there walk right over us, wouldn't yuh? Well some of us
When people first start reading a book there is one burning question: "What is this story about?" It’s a heavy question, especially for a fiction novel with so many fabricated details. You can fix this by saying a story is all about decisions. Of course, there are other themes, but the entire story is connected by the questions characters ask themselves and the outcome of their own answers. We can think about how this mimics real life. How every day we are forced to consider life's chance situations; some casual, some pressing, but all of them impacting our final growth as people and those around us to some degree. A good example of this is when in the book "The Outsiders", our protagonist Jonny decided to kill Bob in self-defense, this resulted in Jonny and Ponyboy going on the run. The decisions, the choices, that were made by Jonny change the course of his and his cohort's entire lives in an instant--directing the whole final tale and story outcome.
To write in dialog would be more telling and concrete therefore lessening the effect of mystery. The most obvious plot is that the marriage of John and Kathy Wade is rapidly disintegrating. The disappearance of Kathy leads the reader to believe that the plot is to uncover a killer yet the author does not write this clearly. The reader must discover his or her own interpretations of the story. O’Brien moves the story from one locale to another both in past tense and present time therefore continuing the mystery of what is actually happening. His use of erratic events and locations in the plot development aid him in effectively weaving a web of mystery and confusion for the reader.
One of the first literary devices that is easily noticeable is suspense this is it what keeps the reader wanting more. When Al said “You can change history, Jake. Do you understand that? John Kennedy can live.” (King 111). Jake replies with huge doubts, “What if it went wrong?” ……. “What if I managed,……., to stop it from happening and made things worse instead of better? What if I came back
The Salem incident changed the lives and characters of those involved in it. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Reverend John Hale was changed by what he experienced. He used to believe only in what his books told him about the devil. He started to change by being around people. He stopped believing solely on what he read and realized that people are not all bad. Hale became less narrow-minded and more compassionate towards people.
A good story has a twist. Most stories have a cause-and-effect. A cause-and-effect is the story, and how it plays out. Both “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs Have a cause-and-effect which created suspense within their stories.
One way Martinez uses actions to create character development is when Manny tries to stop his father from shooting his mother. In the novel, Parrot in the Oven, Manny attempts to stop his father, “I was behind him all the way, picking up and putting things back the best I could, trying not to trample over Pedi, awake and helping Dad look for the bullets. I was begging him to please respect reason, (56, Martinez). This shows how actions revealed Manny is reasonable. This illustrates how Manny’s actions can reveal much about his character. Another way Martinez uses actions to create character development is when Manny chases Eddie down the road. In the same novel, as Manny chases Eddie, “In the instant of trying to call out to Eddie, everything changed. It was like I’d finally seen my own face and recognized myself; recognized who I really should be.” (210, Martinez). This shows how actions of a character can reveal deeper emotion within a character and Manny learns he wants to make his own decisions. Readers discover who Manny really is and this leads to character development. Manny trying to stop his father from shooting his mother with the use of reason and discovering he wants to make his own decisions when he chases Eddie shows how actions can lead to character development.
Every story has at least one character that would have a change in his/her point of view or a change in personality at some point throughout the plot. These characters are referred to as dynamic characters. The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, is based on a true event that happened in the year of 1692. People accused others of being witches in spite of jealousy or anger. Chaos rose and took over Massachusetts. Many people played an important part in the Salem Witch Trials. They had to side between accusations, and were either with the court or not. People were questioned by others and by themselves, which changed the lives of many. Mary Warren, John Proctor, and Reverend are three of the many characters that changed in the play because of conflicts they faced.
A lot of true stories have unexpected twists which can be predicted beforehand using foreshadowing. In the story “The Lottery”, there was a lottery vote in a small village, where at the end of the story it comes out that the vote is about who is going to be stoned to death. In the story “A Sound of Thunder”, a man named Eckel goes to the past in a time machine and is told not to mess anything up. In the end of the story, he comes back to the present and it shows that he changed time. In the story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, the author creates tension and surprise by the way they structure the text, manipulate the pacing of their story, and build suspense.
F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “Action is character.” In other words, characters do things. They feel things. They hear things. They say things. They think things. They go places and so on.
Our beloved and brave leader Comrade Napoleon has found a large pile of timber, and sold it to Frederick. He has used the large and spectacular brains of his to devise plans to sell the timber for the highest profit possible. He has dedicated hours to drafting proposals with both Frederick and Pilkington, compelling Frederick them to raise the offer for the timber by twelve pounds. Then, the awful and despicable Frederick, manifestly angered by this, offered to pay with a cheque. A cheque is a piece of paper promising to pay a sum of money at a later time.
Fletchers uses exposition to create this suspenseful play that everyone would like. To begin with Fletchers development of the suspense is the exposition. The hitchhiker stated “I left Brooklyn to drive to California” (1001). This is the start of the exposition that shows how this story started and where the setting will mostly take place, these were the roots of the play to get the suspense going. The Second way is when the
Almost all stories have plots, and authors employ plots in many different ways. If you can show the particular way in which an author makes use of plot to further his or her story, you have said something substantial. We are interested in learning about the particular way that Hawthorne uses colors and names as character symbols in “Young Goodman Brown,” or the specific way that Updike in “A & P ” shows the world of the grocery store society as a way to enable Sammy 's character to hopefully mature. Try to develop your discussion by focusing on a particular strategy the author uses and what effect that strategy has on the reader. Why did the author choose this particular strategy over other options that might have presented themselves? Does the strategy enable the author to do anything? Are there any constraints in using the strategy?
When writing, authors need to think of their audience and involve an element of surprise. Authors use plot twists in their writing to help them accomplish surprising the audience, allowing them to keep their audience’s interest. Not only do plot twists help keep the audience’s attention, they also make the audience question their beliefs about what they think of the story. Authors can use this tool to advance their themes. Yann Martel uses a crazy plot twist in his book, the Life of Pi, to suggest to readers that truth is relative.
Merle Hodge switches between the characters of the Nurse, Malcolm, Mr. James, Mrs. Henry, Miss Williams and, Mrs. Campbell . Using this technique can adds suspense because no characters knows what it happening therefore you don’t either. You relieve what the characters are thinking. An example would be when Miss Williams didn’t know where Maxine was. “But where is Maxine?” Maxine always showed up on time, dressed appropriately but on this day, she was an hour late! This is an example because the reader only knows as much as Miss Williams, and doesn’t know what will happen
This increases the story’s purpose because instead of knowing the plan and thinking of it as comedic, his plan unfolds without us knowing and we see the grief and anger of Mrs. Barrows.