The Whole Towns Sleeping and Terribly Strange Bed Essay -- English Li

The whole Towns Sleeping and Terribly Strange BedIn this essay I will be comparing two (2) short stories The WholeTowns sleeping by Ray Bradbury (1950) and A Terribly Strange Bedby Wilkie Collins (1856). Both stories argon more or less fear and they make usfeel fear or are supposed to they make the reader scared orfrightened. Both stories have the resembling purpose, which is so scare thereader. I am going to compare the way Ray Bradbury and Wilkie Collinscreate tension, suspense, mood and tone.In the first few lines of The Whole Towns Sleeping, the authordescribes the setting for the story, the little town was deep faraway from everything, kept to itself by a river and a forest and aravine, only when originally that he mentions that it is nighttime. Bothstories are set at nighttime. This is because if it were set in thedaytime it simply wouldnt be scary. The whole town wouldnt besleeping and the teller wouldnt need a terribly strange bed tosleep in. Collins has a different ap proach for the beginning of ATerribly Strange Bed, he describes the characters and what they weredoing, which gives a different impression of the story, it doesntseem like a scary story at first, because theres no obvious signslike in The Whole Towns Sleeping.Ray Bradbury uses deviation to create interest to the story In thedowntown drugstore, fans whispered in the high ceiling air He alsouse metaphors and similes such as There were two moons a clock moonwith four faces while A Terribly Strange Bed doesnt have anyrecreation, metaphors or similes in its opening but still manages tomaintain interest.Mood and tone are very important in both stories. Using certainadjectives, like warm summer n... ...appens next. In Collins story, youare told what happens next, and you finish the story quite pleased,like the narrator would be, instead of still scared like you are inthe other story.Both stories are similar and different the authors use differentmethods to make the reader scared. The sto ries have some similaritiesand others have differences. Ray Bradbury describes the scenerywhereas Wilkie Collins describes the characters. Setting seems to beto a greater extent important in The Whole Towns Sleeping than it is in Collinsstory and tension and suspense is used very differently in the bothstories, Bradbury uses a sharp jerking and then a steady buildup, then afalse relief before a final cliffhanger and Collins uses a strangebuildup to what seems like somewhat of an anti-climax and then reestablishes the tension, for a gentle relief and a settled ending.