The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game is a short story written by Joseph Conrad. While reading this short story, I noticed how involved I was. I wondered how the author was doing this and keeping me reading till the end. I thought about four specific devices he uses, which are characters, plot, setting, and imagery. These devices were used to keep suspense flowing through the story to keep me reading. By using characters, he sets up what the characters look like and how they act. With setting, he gives you a picture of what is around you so you can kind of see what's going on. Imagery is how he appeals to your senses. Plot is the basic story and what he writes in it to keep you involved. The author using characters brought upon the first device used to build suspense in the short story. There are three main characters in the story. The first character, Rainsford, brings immediate suspense. He is a big-game hunter who is from New York. In the beginning of the story, he talks about hunting with his friend. They get into a conversation about the jaguar-guns and how the jaguar-game is pretty good in South America. Throughout the story, he is very suspenseful just by the way he acts. He acts like a gentleman while talk
The second device the author uses is plot to maintain suspense throughout the story. The story begins with Rainsford falling off of his yacht in the middle of the sea. Eventually he swims to an island where he had heard gunshots earlier. Rainsford then goes to a house on the island. He meets a Cossack general that loves to hunt and has left society to come and live and hunt on this island. The general and Rainsford sit down to dinner together and the general describes to Rainsford his hunting career. The general tells Rainsford about hunting humans and how animals are boring him. The general then tells Rainsford to gather his supplies go off into the jungle of the island. Whenever the general is getting close the lost man sets up some kind of trap but it just never seems to kill the general. Then a trap finally kills Ivan, who was introduced into the story earlier. Rainsford has two hours to go before the game is over. Rainsford goes to the general's house and kills him in his bedroom and the story ends on that. I think the author put in a lot of suspense in that plot to keep readers involved. ing to General Zaroff, but in the end, he turns into this "beast at bay." The second character the reader meets is Ivan. He is a big Cossack from Russia and is deaf and dumb. He brings out suspense because he is General Zarroffs huge bo
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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