Read the excerpt from Lee Child’s "A Simple Way to Create Suspense".

Like the old cartoon of the big fish eating a smaller fish eating a very small fish, you’ll find out the big answer after a string of smaller drip-drip-drip answers. The big answer is parceled out slowly and parsimoniously.

Which statement by Karin Slaughter shows a similar central idea?

1- I want it to change them, and I want my reader to feel that change through the character, as if it's them.
2- There has to be this peeling away of the onion, where you get to the core of the character as the story unfolds.
3- I mean, you know, crime is such a great tool for talking about the human condition, and that's what I like to do.
4- If you think about "To Kill a Mockingbird," for instance, some of those courtroom scenes are more tense than any Grisham novel, you know.

This is the sentence that most resembles the main idea of the excerpt. Both passages reflect the view that the big answer has to come slowly, as you get through the story. Moreover, both ideas state that the way to maintain suspense is to give the reader smaller pieces of the puzzle, while saving the main secret for the end.

jayilych4real jayilych4real · Answer 2 · 2022-04-20T17:03:51+02:00

The statement that similar central idea is B. "There has to be this peeling away of the onion..."

What is a Central Idea?

This refers to the main idea of a text that an author wants to use to convey a moral lesson to his readers.

Hence, we can see that from the given excerpt, there is a narration of events which shows that there is a similar central idea which is the core of the character as the story