Stress and worry play huge roles in our everyday lives. But we don’t stress and worry about getting hunted like prey. Rainsford does. He is a well-known hunter who is abandoned in the ocean after falling off a yacht, and is welcome into the home of a man who also hunts, but not the same things as Rainsford. As Rainsford gets accustomed he soon learns he will become the hunted. Connel creates the setting and mood through the elements of point of view, imagery, and sound devices in the story, “ The Most Dangerous Game.” A sound device such as repetition is used to create the setting and mood of stress and desperation within the first few paragraphs of the passage. When Rainsford is struggling in the dark sea, it is emphasized that he, “...struck