Uncertainty

  The author used extreme measures of uncertainty to create suspense.  After Helen Stoner related her story and all of the details, Mr. Holmes and Mr. Watson were very uneasy and uncertain about the mystery.  I was on the edge of my seat when I read, "I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left in darkness."  There was a thickness of uncertainty in that paragraph.  I was left guessing when Mr. Holmes shouted, "

You see it, Watson?” he yelled. “You see it?”  I obviously couldn't see anything, so I found myself reading quicker to get the answer.  The whole story was wrapped with uncertainty.  

  There was also one simile I found.  The story describes the building as such, "The building was of gray, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side."

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