'The Twisted Tree': how the writer builds tension
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I can explain how tension is built in 'The Twisted Tree'.
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The novel gets more frightening and tense as it progresses, because of the increasing threat to Martha's life.
Writers often raise tension by introducing uncertainty, conflict or time pressure into stories.
Inferences should be developed to include additional interpretations.
Burge uses elements of the Gothic to raise the tension when Martha enters the twisted tree for the first time.
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