All the way through out the chapter Hill always comments about the weather, this makes the novel exciting as you can feel that something is going to happen.
In Hills novel the second technique that is used is simile an example of this is ‘the house felt like a ship at sea’. This makes us the reader imagines. This simile makes us the reader think that the house is rocking and shaking and being unstable like a ship at sea. Another simile is ‘hearing the wind rage round like a lion. This makes the wind furious as a lion can be very scary.
Hill has used onomatopoeia ‘the gale that came roaring’. This makes it scary for the reader by using the word roaring.
On page 95 Hill has used rhetorical question ‘perhaps it was the woman in black’, ‘Had Mrs Drablow harboured.
Hill uses another simile on page 101 ‘cradling spider like a child in my arms’. This shows that spider and kipps have grown together, and have established a bonding love. It also shows that spider really matters to him. Also o page 101 Hill uses a cliff-hanger ‘I caught a glimpse of someone standing at the window’. This makes us wonder if something bad is going to happen, however when you read on Kipps hears the sound of the pony and trap. This shows that kipps is stuck, trapped by the ghost and the horse and cart. This cliff-hanger works really well as the next part of the story would work with it.
My conclusion of the ending of the novel is that it is wired as the novel went from being really interesting and Hill using all the wonderful techniques, but by the ending the last chapter ‘The Woman In Black’ I thought that hill had lost interest in her writing and I felt it was really bad so I wonder what some one else things of the ending who read more novels then me.
Hill has lost the 1st person which made the novel believable, but now Hill has used 3rd person the effect has changed. When we first look at the novel we know kipps writes his own ghost story, but I cant understand why the writer has done this.