“A fusillade of knocks” This builds up tension and suspense because every reader wants to find out who is beyond the door. Furthermore, the reader is eager to find out weather Mr White will open the door or not.
The writer carries on building tension when there is a race against time. When Mrs White is trying to open the door and Mr White is looking for the unwholesome thing.
“But her husband was on his hands and … frantically breathed his third and final wish” This shows us that he is really scared of what is outside and is trying to do anything to stop it from coming inside like when he tries to pull his wife back to stop her from opening the door. This builds tension and suspense because all the readers will want to find out if the thing or it will come inside before Mr White breathes his last wish.
In the last two pages it is almost as if Mrs White is possessed.
“Wish” she cried in a strong voice” She is adamant on getting her son back and she will do anything to get him back. The writer uses repetition to add to the tension. She acts like as if she is mental. Furthermore, after Mr White has made the 2nd wish the writer proclaims.
“She had an unnatural look on her face” This shows she has changed and she is not the nice harmless old lady that we knew at the beginning of the story. Not even Mr White can stop her she is so determined she is going to get her son back.
Mr White is in contrast with his wife this may be because he had to identify his.
“Mutilated son” so he thinks he will come back like how he died. This is why he is not as eager to see him, in fact he is scared. When Mrs White tells him to wish for his son back he is terrified but has to do what his wife says.
But even when his wife says wish he tries to put his foot down by saying.
“It is foolish and wicked” This is also showing us that not only he is scared but he is looking out for his wife because she don’t know what he looks like.
He calls his own son.
“It” this shows us that he no longer believes that they have a son or they will get their son back as he was.
The atmosphere is like a pin-drop silence and eventually all of a sudden it is like a bomb has gone off.
“A loud knock resounded through the house” The writer uses resounded because it makes the line better if he just wrote there was a loud knock. It would not be as interesting whereas, resounded is like the knock bouncing off all the walls in the house.
The writer uses pathetic fallacy this is where the weather keeps in mood with the story. One example would be.
“A cold wind rushed up the staircase” this is showing us that everything has gone quiet again.
The writer uses different sounds and techniques to make the story a lot more interesting. He uses powerful adjectives when he describes the sound.
“The chain rattled back” this shows us that it is only a matter of seconds before the thing outside gets inside.
The writer also uses the knocks to make the story explode. It keeps the reader full of suspense. Every reader will want to know who it is and what’s going to happen.
My conclusion is that it was their son and Mr White wished for his the person outside to vanish. My perfect ending would be that they would open the door and the story like that this would leave the reader on a bigger and better cliff-hanger. I hoped that Mrs White opened the door so that reader could see who it was.
