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How does Ambrose Bierce create suspense in "An Arrest"?
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How does Ambrose Bierce create suspense in "An Arrest"? In "An arrest", Ambrose Bierce creates suspense in the first paragraph by stating five facts about Orrin Brower in the first sentence alone, then by stating a few more in the lines to follow. It is important to state facts like this because you need to get the reader interested at the start otherwise he/she won't read on. In this case, Ambrose Bierce starts off by saying, "Having murdered his brother-in-law". This catches the reader's attention because nearly everyone loves a good murder story. After reading the first few lines, we also learn that this is a fugitive story. Then the thing that caught my attention after this was after he knocked the prison guard down with the lead bar, it says, "he had the folly to enter a forest" which means this was a big mistake! In the second...
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