George G. Toudouze's Three Skeleton Key

It was a dark and stormy night on Three Skeleton Key when three innocent men were held captive in a tall grey lighthouse by gigantic flesh eating rats. With the lighthouse surrounded by great white sharks and the nearest land 20 miles away, they had no nearby help.Itchoua, Le Gleo, and the narrator have to survive long hard nights. Eventually the three captives get out by a dramatic ending. “Three Skeleton Key” is written by George G.Toudouze and was originally just a story,but then later turned into a radio version. The short story is the most effective medium for presenting the story because the history of the story, the imagery, and the in depth ending. First and foremost, the beginning of the short story has more detail than the radio version. In the short story, they tell the reader how the name Three Skeleton Key was invented. This leads to suspension because you think that something bad is going to happen. The author also goes into deep description about the lighthouse and its surroundings. This helps …show more content…
In the short story, the author describes the rats as “huge, wise creatures, born on the sea.” Therefore, this makes the audience create an image in their head about how the rats look like. When the author describes the lighthouse as a “Gray, tapering cylinder,welded to the solid black rock by iron rods and concrete, rising from a small island twenty- odd miles from land”, this really creates an image in the reader’s brain. As a result, the reader can really picture the lighthouse in their brain, but in the radio version they barely give a description. “She was a beautiful ship of some four thousand tons,a fast sailer that had carried cargoes to every part of the world, plowing the seas unceasingly” is how the author describes the boat. This really helps the audience picture how the ship looks like leaving the audience wondering what could be inside of a ship that