The Elements of Two Stories

The Elements of Two Stories
How does suspense make you react while reading? Does descriptiveness scare you or disgust you? What elements do you like about storytelling and stories? Descriptiveness is basically in all stories and in storytelling because to make it a great story for the reader you must engage them. Suspense on the other hand is mostly found in horror, mystery, drama, etc... It’s used to keep you on your toes and to keep reading the story. Suspense and descriptiveness are just two of the many elements for stories and storytelling.
Descriptiveness must always engage the reader to keep his or her interest. Description can make the reader disgusted, or happy, or sad, etc… In the short story “The Boogeyman”, Stephan King is very descriptive. His words vary when it comes to helping the reader imagine what the character is feeling, hearing, and seeing. When you read “so nice, so nice, his voice sounding like seaweed” you must think something quite scary. But reading this story meant it’s not something that would happen often, although very scary to some might have been just another story with some what disgusting details.
Suspense is also important especially in horror, mystery, drama, etc… It’s very critical in these stories because you want to keep the reader reading. But don’t drag it on too much because then the reader will get distracted. In the short story “The Boogeyman”, He kept the suspense going throughout the story with “I see the closet open just a crack, knowing that it was shut before”
Suspense is scary to me but I’d rather have the suspense to want to know what’s going to happen next because other wise I would get really bored. Suspense has a way of getting into your mind and making you imagine. The actual story puts in the place of the character or right next to it to feel and sense and smell exactly what the character is feeling and sensing and smelling. Descriptiveness is very important to me but also scary I have a very distinct smell, I can smell the smallest thing so when I read what is being described and can smell it I can feel it and I can taste it sometimes. Describing in stories especially scary stories is important in a sense the writer wants to scare the reader. Reading these past three stories have rally scared me because I’m a big chicken. The boogeyman really scared how every time he described the closet it was cracked open just a bit but it seemed like every time he said that is was open just a bit more than the first time and it was even scarier to read cause your wondering why isn’t he going in and checking, yes he was scared but be a man and be brave for your children. Ok the first time but the second and third and fourth time now that’s just a little too much. You already know what in there and you want your children to be safe so save them even if they said candy but you had the slightest idea that they said closet then you take them out. Parents usually have those certain feeling when something is wrong but he didn’t want his children to be sissy’s but in actuality he was being the sissy and not protecting his child.