Foreshadowing In The Most Dangerous Game

Want to learn a life lesson without getting in trouble? Life lessons are something we have to learn in order to be a better person, most times it takes a bad experience to actually learn. But they don’t always have to be bad. For example learning a lesson or theme from a story. In this case, on important lesson readers can learn from Richard Connell’s, “ The Most Dangerous Game”, is to take into consideration how others feel. To start off, Rainsford states that he doesn’t care how hunted animals feel; he also claims that they can’t reason or feel fear. The author in this scene uses foreshadowing to get readers predicting that Rainsford might become the hunted. “Don’t talk nonsense Whitney,” said Rainsford “You’re a big game hunter. Who cares how a jaguar feels?”. “ Perhaps the jaguar does,” said Whitney. “Bah! They’ve no understanding.” ( Connell 3) In the scene, Rainsford states that animals have no feelings; Connell used that as foreshadowing to portray the theme of considering how others feel.

This scene shows that there was something evil, bad, scary about the island. Also, the crew were jumpy but Rainsford was not. The author, Richard Connell, uses foreshadowing to make readers think that Rainsford’s going to end up on the island and something scary is going to happen. “ The place has a bad reputation. Didn’t you notice the crew seemed a bit jumpy today?”. “ They were a bit strange,” answered Rainsford” (Connell 4). This scene shows Whitney and Rainsford talking about the crew being jumpy and the island having a bad reputation. This scene shows that you should take into consideration how others feel because Rainsford knew the place was bad when he noticed how the crew was acting. Because he did that he knew to be cautious and in result he realized when General Zaroff was studying