How Do H.G.Wells and Sir Arthur Cannon Doyle create tension in ‘The Red Room’ and ‘The Club Footed Grocer’?
...flickered’ this shows an important piece of information that their was no electricity so it was set in a time long ago. The setting for ‘The Club Footed Grocer’ is mostly in abandoned marsh land and in an old house that is boarded up, both are very isolated and extremely weird places for an every day routine for most people. The setting is changed a lot as well in this book for instance we come from a nice town out to the middle of no where. The characters in both are not so different in the effect that both of them start of confident and are not expecting any thing strange. In ‘The red Room’ the main character is very confident in the fact that he is the only one in the castle with any sense as the rest are weird and keeps on about the paranormal. The grotesque custodians are old people that believe in ghosts or something of that sort. One of them is an old man with a withered arm that just comes in and sits down for a drink, he looks very weak, another old man has a bad leg and keeps arguing with the main character about him going into the room, he keeps on saying ‘its your own choosing’ which shows that he doesn’t want the main character to go into to the room. There is an old lady that just looks into the fire and every now and then says ‘This night of all nights’ this shows that something bad happened on this night a while ago we must assume. The main character decides to go into the room and as he gets ever closer his will power degenerates and he becomes very irrational making irrational assumptions about the paranormal and then runs around the room and barricades the door. In ‘The Club Footed Grocer’ the Uncle in it is very secluded until half the way through the book when we find every thing out about him at once. In the beginning all that we know about him is that he wants his nephew to help him and that he turned his brother in law away when he needed help and so died, which makes the uncle seem a bad man from the start. Then half way through when the nephew gets tot the trap the driver is very careful about saying anything and then says that he would not help at all unless he was getting paid so we know that the uncle isn’t very popular their either. Later on in the book we find out that he was a merchant or a porn-broker and has received some diamonds from some one and now the sailors want them back. The bad guy whose name is not disclosed is only unwrapped in the end as well when we find out that he is after the uncle and was in prison this character is different from the other bad ones as he is sly cunning and older it says. John Maple is a very simple character whom is just the one that carries the story through and answers the questions for us. The farmer that had helped Stephen we do not know a lot about however he is stubborn and does not like Stephen as he is related to The Uncle. The pace in the stories are different yet have the same effect, they both help to build tension. In ‘The Red Room’ the pace starts slow with an intro on the Red Room and then gets high...