Creating Suspence

One way that authors create suspense is characters working against a deadline. An example from Trash is when Raphael, Gardo and Rat try to solve the mystery of Jose Angelico’s death before police officers can catch them, the entire book is based on this as it is a continuous chase around the city to try to solve the mystery.  The first clue they found was a bag at the dumpsite which had a key inside it that looked like it was from the train station but since they where poor the train station could have multiple guards or anything else there to prevent any poor kids from getting through, the second clue is the package at the train station that was going to be sent to a prison to Gabriel Olondrez, Jose Angelico’s grandfather. The third clue was the bible that Gabriel Olondrez had which they got by the Prison guard Marco it had the ability to crack the code in the package they found in the locker.

Another example is Conflict this occurred when Raphael was arrested by the police and taken to the police station. This is a type of suspense because you don't know in what ways Raphael was going to be hurt or if the police officer was going to let go of him when he was dangling out the window.

Another example that is going to be talked about is using details to create the air of mystery is that in the background it said to be cloudy and all that and you’ll hear things about a hurricane setting this weird feeling that you want to know if the hurricane is going to hit or not encouraging you to keep going and reading to see if you’ll ever find out.
The last example is the readers knowing more than the characters, for example in the book Rat knows that Father Julliard changes the password to the safe every month but writes it down in his diary because he can't remember, this is suspense because you don't know how Rat knows the password or what the password would be.