To begin, this passage comes from the British writer CS Lewis and his prose piece 'Perelandra'. It was published in 1944 and therefore probably written during the last two years of World War II (which ended in 1945). This piece is a descriptive narrative without any kind of direct dialogue between the characters, as we mostly only have one, and it has an interesting play with verb tenses. The fragment we were given is a narrative of three paragraphs that has longer sentences at the beginning and gradually begins to shorten them until by the last paragraph they become very short. Long sentences are used to slow down time which will be very important in the passage and therefore to increase the suspense and tension in the environment until the sentences become short and speed up the time in the story, increasing the tension more and more until the point where it seems like something is coming or something will happen. The story is also told by a protagonist narrator who we know thanks to the use of the first person and direct access to the character's mind along with his feelings and thoughts. This narrator tells us the story ("Naturally I do not wish to dwell on this phase of my story. (...) I would have skipped over it if I had not thought that some account was necessary for a full understanding of what follows" [lines 19- 20]) of his journey to Ransom's house, a path that will trigger his paranoia and fear. The writing style is very direct as the narrator is practically in a one-sided dialogue with his readers story basically presents a character, whose name we do not know but he is also the narrator, we are also provided with a referenced character named Rans...... in the center of the card ......s “And immediately the impulse to withdraw, which had already assailed me several times, leapt upon me with a sort of demonic violence" (lines 34-35) furthermore he says "If someone expected me to enter that house and remain there alone for several hours, yes he was wrong!”(lines 36-37)In conclusion CS Lewis uses all the literary tools at his disposal very effectively to create an empathy between the reader and the narrator, using the rhythm of words and sentences to create a tense environment and full of suspense, it also delves very deep into the narrator's mind and thoughts, so really the reader has no information other than the distorted information the narrator gives us. As well as using a lot of repetitions and descriptions of his thoughts which will highlight the fear of the dark, being alone and being crazy in the overall atmosphere.