The Knife :: essays research papers

The injure     Everybody has read a horror floor before at some point, but a story from Alfred Hitchcock is divers(prenominal) because at the end he leaves the reader thinking what has happened. In "The dig" he uses Plot, Setting, and Conflict to do just this.     Edward Dawes and Herbert Smithers are just dickens friends having a drink with eachother, but one of them has a glossa that was found in a nearby sewer drain. Herbert is cleaning it widly as if he was possesed. Then a red ruby appears on the knife when he is done cleaning it, now the madness breaksout like a terrible plague..     While Herbert is admiring the knife, the maiden over walks in and asks to see the knife,but every(prenominal) of a sudden Herbert goes insane out of his mind when the maid fey him, then he stares right at the maid with a madly look, and out of the blue he stabbed her, next thing you know the maid is on the floor dead and Herbert runs out the house as disruptive as he can. The reader may think this is the orgasm, but it is not, it is the emerging action leading up to the climax. Alfred Hitchcock does not tell the reader wherefore he stabbed her,he likes to leaving the reader thinking and get to a greater extent into the story, which is kind of like ahook to keep the reader reading.     The climax is where he will get the readers interested more in the story. later onHerbert runs out Edward Dawes picks up the knife and notifys the patrol of the incident.once he has called the police for some reason he goes into the kitchen to clean the wicked knife. While he is cleaning it, it slips out of his hand and cuts his arm, then hiswife walks in and trys to serve well him, then Edward goes bezerk just like his friend Herbertand for no reason stabbs her in her chest.     The falling action and conclusion get a little uncanny because the police get to the scene, and they start discussing about this, but the sergeant remembers a murder on the same street a while back, and the soul that was murdered on this street was Marie Kelly, the last victim of darn The Ripper. When Jack The Ripper was getting away he dropped the knife into a sewer drain. both(prenominal) men say it was the knife that made them stabb