Title: The Red Room Category:Literature / English Details: Words: 1951 | Pages: 8.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Red Room
Short stories usually have to start well to attract a reader’s attention and keep it throughout. The best way to do this is to begin with an enticing level of tension and keep building up throughout the story. Wells uses literary techniques such as short clauses and good word choice to build up the tension. By doing so, he had written a story that is gripping and filled with tension.
The title immediately attracts the reader’s attention, and impresses upon readers as something …showed first 85 words of 1951 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1951 total…the narrator’s fear corresponded with an increase in tension. This is a technique that Wells used to make the story more interesting and to keep the reader’s attention. Language usage played an important part and changed with the characters. Around the epiphany of the story, the narrator’s experience was described in short sentences and included lots of punctuation, which signified a sense of fear. Through the young man’s experience, The Red Room shows that fear is what we make of it.
