Analysis of Welcome to Night Vale

The Drawbridge

“Rabbits are not what they seem to be.” The statement immediately hooks you in just by saying this statement as it shows that rabbits are not just cute and fluffy and that they are a mystery or maybe evil.

“We’ve had some power outages reported throughout Night Vale in the last couple of hours. If you’re experiencing one…well then you can’t hear me, can you?” The reader has asked a rhetorical question which we already know the answer to, the power outage reported throughout Night vale suggest its an odd town.

“which are roving back and forth across town in a continuous motion, like a great pacing beast.” This suggest that the power outage are quite violent as the power outage is described like a great pacing beast.

“Keep some flashlights with spare batteries and a childhood photo album by you tonight, just in case.” It makes you want to question why you need to leave your childhood photo album by you tonight, like is there some sort of danger that is going to happen or do we just need to leave it by your bedside table.

“Construction crews have tried building the bridge tower base supports from corrugated cardboard, non-dairy creamer, and ceramic bowls. Nothing has worked.” The reader makes it seem like the construction crew is working on a school project.

“Engineers are asking for help in determining how proper bridge towers are made.” This suggest that the engineers are not smart as they are asking for help.

“Do not use cursive or long words. Clearly labeled drawings are preferred.” This backs up my suggestion, claiming that the engineers are not smart as they can’t read long words and struggle to read cursive, but they can understand labeled drawings.

 (pun intended, dear listeners) The reader is talking to us, the listener.

“the Dog Park” This phrase is constantly repeated making it sound like that the dog park is important somehow.

“Citizens are not even supposed to be consciously aware of the Dog Park” This tells us that the dog park is important and that its off limits because people are not even supposed to be consciously aware of the dog park but they are, this proves that something is going on at the dog park.