The Art of Creating Suspense: Central Ideas of Two Authors
Question 4 of 10 • S1S: English 9B (E2112 - AG)
Read the excerpt from Lee Child’s "A Simple Way to Create Suspense".Like the old cartoon of the big fish eating a smaller fish eating a very small fish, you’ll find out the big answer after a string of smaller drip-drip-drip answers. The big answer is parceled out slowly and parsimoniously.
Answer
A
I want it to change them, and I want my reader to feel that change through the character, as if it's them.
B
There has to be this peeling away of the onion, where you get to the core of the character as the story unfolds.
C
I mean, you know, crime is such a great tool for talking about the human condition, and that's what I like to do.
D
If you think about "To Kill a Mockingbird," for instance, some of those courtroom scenes are more tense than any Grisham novel, you know.