Question

read the excerpt from lee childs \a simple way to create suspense\.
like the old cartoon of the big fish eating a smaller fish eating a very small fish, youll 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?
○ i want it to change them, and i want my reader to feel that change through the character, as if its them.
○ there has to be this peeling away of the onion, where you get to the core of the character as the story unfolds.
○ i mean, you know, crime is such a great tool for talking about the human condition, and thats what i like to do.
○ if you think about \to kill a mockingbird,\ for instance, some of those courtroom scenes are more tense than any grisham novel, you know.

Explanation:

Lee Child's excerpt uses the metaphor of a big fish eating smaller fish to describe how a big answer (like a central mystery in a story) is revealed slowly through smaller answers. Karin Slaughter's statement about "peeling away the onion" to get to the core of a character as the story unfolds is similar. Both use a layered - peeling (fish - eating layer by layer; onion - peeling layer by layer) metaphor to describe how something (a big answer in Child's case, the core of a character in Slaughter's case) is revealed gradually as the narrative progresses.

Answer:

There has to be this peeling away of the onion, where you get to the core of the character as the story unfolds.