Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell: Literary Analysis

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Richard Connell combines helplessness and foreshadowing to generate feelings of suspense. Throughout Most Dangerous Game suspenseful moments give readers helpless feeling for Rainsford, whom is unwillingly thrown off his boat and left stranded in the vast deep Caribbean. “The cry was pinched short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean sea closed over his head” (15). This quote clearly makes you feel as a reader hopeless for Rainsford’s situation and provokes feelings of desperation to maintain his buoyancy and when he will take his next breath yet still hoping the boat will return to free him from despair. In addition, Rainsford eventually attempts to leave a cleverly complicated trail so the extremely evil Zaroff won’t find him, but there