In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Rainsford comes upon an island named Ship-Trap island and he meets a man named Zaroff on it. Zaroff is a big game hunter and he says that he is bored because, it no longer challenges him. He moved to Ship-trap island to find and capture sailors and hunt them. Zaroff gives them a three hour head start then sets out to kill them. Any captives who can elude Zaroff for three days are set free. Near the end of the story, Rainsford jumps off a cliff and Zaroff thinks that he killed himself, but instead Rainsford kills Zaroff in his bedroom. There are many ways that an author can create suspense in a story and one of the ways is to add the element of danger. The passage that supports this is on page