My Essay

My Essay        

        Remorse was drowning me as tears trickled down my cheeks. I should have stayed with her in the ward, but why did I leave? It was too late to feel any regret or guilt. Today was the last day I would be seeing her, and she looked extremely pale. Her face wore an emotionless expression.

        Her eyes shut so tightly that it seemed like she was refusing to look me in the eye. I retreated from the box she laid in, still frustrated with myself. I should have listened; glimpses of the events played in my mind.

        "Son, your Grandma is fighting for her last breath, yet you're leaving for the movies?" my mum argued, attempting to knock some sense into that stubborn mind of mine. Adamant on my decision to hang out with my friends, I turned a deaf ear to her advice and stormed out of the ward. It seemed as though there was something holding me back, urging me to stay, but my ignorance could no longer be persuaded. It was a few hours of fun I experienced before an abrupt phone call interrupted everything.
        "Nat, where are you right now?" my mum hollered over the telephone, a sense of strong urgency in her tone. "Your grandma is struggling––" I hung up the call. I ignored every single one of their phone calls from then on till I returned to the hospital. I did not understand how I took my Grandma's company with me for granted. I arrived back at the hospital, still slowly sauntering back to my Grandma's ward. Standing in front of me was a depressing sight of my relatives and family sobbing non-stop. I hoped it was not what I pictured it out to be. I was in denial of reality.

        I dashed towards her hospital bed, shoving aside my relatives. She laid at an angle, motionless. I bellowed out loud, praying that it would shake her from the sleep she was soundly in. Moments passed and I continued standing there, waiting... Waiting for something that was never going to happen.

        This was when I took my parents' advice seriously ––– though it was too late to do so. 

Homework On Suspense - Wen Xuan

The film that i watched that has a suspense is After Earth

The Story is about a father and son surviving a space shuttle crash onto the planet earth which was inhabitable in that time.They were trying to use a device to transmit the signal that they are here to the main space station but the signal emitting device in their ship has been broken during the crash.
So they had to proceed to another site where a shuttle which have surviving products and the transmitter.The son was then sent on a misson to find that crashed shuttle dud to his father having some issues getting around.After he found the device he had to climb to the top of the mountain to sent the signal but as he was at the top he encountered a creature which wanted to devour him. The suspense was when the boy struggled to escape from the monster the device was hit and it was at the very edge of the mountain.It was then zoomed back onto the boy which soon got out and when he tried to get the device the creature blocked his way. The device was at the edge and the boy struggling to get free.  

Homework on suspense - Kang Zhe

I watched a film called "Black Mirror". It is a series about the life of people in a virtual world, with screens surrounding them. The people have to pedal bicycles (for some reason) in front of a large screen to earn "credits", and use these credits to turn off advertisements and pop-ups. They can also use the credits to do other things like be on a talent show.

The scene with suspense is that the protagonist couldn't take the life like this and in rage, smashed one of the screens, with this glass shard that he holds in his hand. He decides to join a talent show, which is broadcasted to the whole of the virtual world. When he was on stage, he held the glass shard to his neck, and slowly scraped it across his neck, to show his hatred of this world. Blood slowly oozed out from his veins, and at that scene, the camera just stopped there with the blood, and the three judges for the show, looking dazed. The sounds also add to the suspense. Just then, one of the judges, opened his lips, in front of the slow-motion camera, as if something wise was something to come out from his mouth, he said,"Nice gimmick you have there, sir. We want you to be part of our drama channel!"

All that suspense for that ending, although to some people, it may sound anti-climatic, but if you do watch the film, it is, in fact, quite suspenseful.

Homework on Suspense - Kwan Jun Jie

Suspense

The most recent book I have read which was enjoyable and suspenseful is titled "The Kill Order", which is a prequel to the movie/book titled "The Maze Runner."

The book is set 13 years before "The Maze Runner" and is about some people trying to escape from the solar flares which are hitting earth. The village where the main characters, Alec, Mark and Trina come from is attacked by the Post Flares Coalation, a group of people who are trying to kill everyone else on earth so they get all the resources on earth as earth was running out of resources. The shoot people with darts which contain highly contaigous diseases. Along the way they find a young girl, Deedee, who is immune to the virus. Halfway through the book, Alec and Mark loose Deedee who was accompained by Trina. 

The suspense starts when  Alec and Mark manage to find Deedee with Trina, who has already lost her memory due to the virus. After escaping from the virus-infected village they found Deedee with Trina, Alec and Mark find out that they have also been infected with the deadly virus. Before they go out of their mind, they try to get Deedee to the Flat Trans, the last place on earth which the sun flares have not scorched. In the end, they drop Deedee off at the Flat Trans before Alec, the pilot of the plane crashes all three of them into a building.

Homework on Suspense - Nathaniel

One of the suspenseful movies I recall watching is The Book Thief. The setting is during the time period of World War II, and its plot is about a girl by the name of Liesel Meminger, who enjoys reading so much to the extent that she ends up stealing books. However, the worst part is that she was actually stealing books from the Mayor's wife! 

The more suspenseful moments in the movie are when she nearly gets caught by the Mayor in her attempts to steal more books; and when a Jewish refugee staying with Liesel's family nearly gets spotted by the Nazis as he tried to escape to a safer place. 

These suspenseful moments have made me grown a liking to the movie that I decided to watch it for a second time and even prompted me to hunt for the original book the movie was based off. 

A suspenseful story I have read of

One of the most suspenseful stories I have read of is the book "The circus of adventure" by Enid Blyton. The main characters of the story are 5 children. Jack and Lucy - Ann are siblings who are adopted into the same family as Philip and Dinah (siblings as well). The last child is a most peculiar guest that would later be revealed to be a prince of Tauri-Hessia ( This is a fictitious country, mind you). The most suspenseful part was when after all of the children except for Jack were caught because of some complications in Tauri-Hessia (The reason why the prince was around in the first place). The first suspenseful part was when Jack and his parrot Kiki managed to get to Tauri-Hessia without the people knowing.

The second part was when in Tauri-Hessia, Jack found the rest and rescued them with the circus folk he was  with. The scene is as shown in the picture below. The circus folk devised a plan to walk on the tightrope (They were tightrope walkers) then pull the children over a pulley. But if you don't read the whole book it is pretty hard for you to understand what I am saying.

Homework on suspense- Guan Yu

The suspenseful movie that I watch is The Conjuring. The movie is based on a real life experience of Ed and Lorain Warren with the doll Annabelle which is believed to be haunted. The movie is most suspenseful at the parts where the characters are walking slowly in a quiet hallway with flickering lights. The creepy background music the movie gets louder as the character continues walking down the hallway. It is suspenseful as you would never know when Annabelle will pop out. There are also suspenseful parts where the character is running away from the doll and locked himself in a room at the end of the hallway, fearing the Annabelle my force herself into the room and most probably kill him.