Hitchcock is different because at the end he leaves the reader thinking what has

happened. In "The Knife" he uses Plot, Setting, and Conflict to do just this.

Edward Dawes and Herbert Smithers are just two friends having a drink with each

other, but one of them has a knife that was found in a nearby sewer drain. Herbert is

cleaning it widly as if he was possesed. Then a red ruby appears on the knife when he is

done cleaning it, now the madness breaksout like a terrible plague..

While Herbert is admiring the knife, the maid walks in and asks to see the knife,

but all of a sudden Herbert goes insane out of his mind when the maid touched him,

then he stares right at the maid with a devilish look, and out of the blue he stabbed her,

next thing you know the maid is on the floor dead and Herbert runs out the house as fast

as he can. The reader may think this is the climax, but it is not, it is the rising action

leading up to the climax. Alfred Hitchcock does not tel

dropped the knife into a sewer drain. Both men say it was the knife that made them stabb

killed everytime they touced the man holding the horrible knife which gave the men

All of Jack The Ripper's victims were women. This how the story ends. "He

that's how Alfred Hitchcock leaves his readers.

"Well now", she breathed. Let me look at it, may I Sergeant Tobins, if you do not

Miss Maple's hand, but as he stared into her plain, bewildered face, the anger was

faraway. Or was it the sound of a woman screaming?" That's the end of the story and

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