TOM HOLLAND
“Soon the yellow eye came round again.”
My story moves between three time frames: the present, past and ‘flashback’ moments offering an additional, eerie dimension. I set the account against a monochrome backdrop to create a sense of foreboding: “Greyhound Forest”, “black tailored coat” and “white shrubs” all present a world devoid of colour and into this starkness I have introduced colour sparingly. I wanted emotion in my story to be subtle, even though the events were clearly grave. To do this I used pathetic fallacy: in the opening paragraph the “whole land was lifeless, so cold that the spirit was drained out of it” to reflect Ethan’s sense of alienation.
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