Monday, December 21, 2009

~A Twisted Murder~

The Way up to Heaven
The way up to heaven is definitely a suspense. The suspense emerges when we get to the climax of the story. Mrs Foster makes the decision to leave her husband in an elevator to die. She hears him, but quickly makes up her mind and rushes away. Mrs Foster gets back at her husband by making him die a horrible death. She is fed up of her husband constantly tormenting her by always being late. Mr and Mrs Foster's relationship was twisted. They thrived on each others misery, so Mrs Foster put an end to it. This story is defiantly not an example of poetic justice. Mrs Foster kills her husband and gets away, as if nothing happened. There were no red herrings in the story to take us off track, it was very straight forward. All in all this story was interesting and very worth reading.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

~Night of the Twister~

This story is defiantly a suspense. The whole story the reader is left wondering if the two criminals are going to kill Karen Smallwood. The suspense is first introduced when two criminals, Jerry and Ben Garth break into Karen's, parent's house when she is there cleaning up. The story comes to an end when Karen outsmarts the two criminals by getting them to think a tornado sounds like a freight train. She knows a train comes by the railway at ten o'clock every night. She stalls them until it comes and when they rush to the storm cellar she quickly grabs the gun behind them and shoots killing Garth and injuring Jerry. There were no red herrings in this story. Night of the Twister is a great example of poetic justice. The bad guys get what they deserve in the end.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Lamb to Slaughter- assigment 4

Blog Assignment #4



Lamb to Slaughter is defiantly a suspense. Throughout the whole story the reader is always thinking ahead, trying to predict what will happen next. The suspense all begins when Mary Maloney begins to prepare supper for her husband. She takes a piece of lamb meat out of the freezer and instead of feeding it to her husband, she knocks him over the head with it, killing him. It is resolved in the end when Mary Maloney feeds the men that are trying to find her husband's killer the piece of meat she used as her weapon. There were no red herrings thrown at the reader throughout the whole story. Lamb to Slaughter is defiantly not an example of poetic justice, Mary Maloney gets away with murder.