How an Author's Style Choices When Writing Can Develop a Central Idea

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show that there should be a pause when reading. This gives the text a strange and uncanny feel. This helps develop the main idea of derangement because giving the text a deranged feel can make a reader relate that to the characters. Ultimately, using punctuation to develop a main idea further can really create a tone in the text that forces the reader to think about what the central idea, insanity.

Keeping the reader in suspense can be very key when trying to further originate main focus points of a text. In “The Tell Tale Heart” and “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” the authors, Poe and Dickinson do so through pacing. In Emily Dickinson’s poem, she writes the poem in a way where the beginning tends to move slower and then in the middle it gets faster then becomes slow again at the finish. Dickinson writes in the third stanza of her poem, “Then Space- began to toll.” Using words “then” and “began” show how the pacing of that line starts to speed up. This can also be seen in Poe’s “A Tell Tale Heart” in paragraph 11 when the Narrator says “ It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!” Pausing in between the sentence to say “...I say….” can build tension in itself, this quote is an example of quicker pacing in Poe’s short story. Conclusively, using slower and quicker pacing when writing can definitely build suspense which can set a tone for the reader to think about the main idea of insanity.

The texts “A Tell Tale Heart” and “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” both share a central idea of insanity, madness, or derangement. The authors of these texts, Poe and Dickinson both develop this central idea through pacing, figurative language, and syntax. Overall, further developing a central idea through writing choices made by the author can be crucial for the reader understanding the central idea.