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
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Approximate Word count = 902
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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