Compare and contrast how the writers develop interest and suspense in the following short stories: the signal man by Charles Dickens and the three strangers by Thomas Hardy.

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                 Compare and contrast how the writers develop interest and suspense in                  the following short stories: ‘the signal man’ by Charles dickens and ‘the                  three strangers’ by Tomas hardy.The first thing that would have been the main difference between the two short stories, one from Charles Dickens and the other from Tomas Hardy is that Hardy has wrote the Longest one, this difference is important because it shows a point that hardy takes longer to explain what his story is about and likes to use length in a way to build up more tension.Hardy, though out his story, gives us a lot of detail, he uses this to build up tension when he starts off his story he describes how this part of agricultural England has been little modified by the lapse of centuries, then his next paragraph he comes down to fifty years ago and the lonely cottage, and how by itself stands alone only a couple miles away from a “country town “. But yet that did not stop leaving the feeling of loneliness, because of that fives miles of irregular upland and the weather that night, it seemed they were isolated and very much by themselves, detached and undefended. The as Hardy progresses into his story it comes down to the night that he had based his story on. That night where everything seemed bleak, the rain poured down around them and how the wind battered at the sides of this lonesome cottage belonging to the shepherd, his wife and his two children, but then again hardy focuses in that bit more, as he says “yet never was commiseration for the shepherd move misplaced”, especially on a night like this, for he was having a christening party for his second baby girl. All the way threw Hardy paints a picture of a negative
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image, they were meant to be sad, out in this lonesome place, deprived of all and to be miserable, so the reader is expecting to be one of those nights that people thought it would be horrible to live up there, but in actual fact he was merry as there was “cheerful music” and had a large number of guests. So for Hardy he uses a lot of detail and a grasdual effect to build up his tensionWhen Dickens comes to start his story he jumps right in, this is different to Hardys story as he likes to take his ...

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