Suspense And Foreshadowing In The Most Dangerous Game

Suspense is very popular and used in a lot of things, such as music, tv shows, and movies, etc. In literature suspense and foreshadowing are the feelings the author gives off to add a creepy vibe to the story. The author Conell inputs these things into his story “The Most Dangerous Game”. In the story, there are two main characters, Rainsford and General Zaroff. In the beginning, Rainsford his two crew members, Whitney and Captain Nielsen, come across an Island called “Ship-Trap Island” Whitney warns Rainsford about the island but he is unconvinced that there is anything wrong or suspicious with or about it. Later in the story Rainsford falls off of the ship and comes into contact with the island and its owner, General Zaroff. There are many

Another way the aurthor uses suspense in his story is when he is describing the darkness and Rainsford being alone. After some time all the crew members aboard the yacht decide to head off the sleep, meanwhile Rainsford says he is not sleepy and decides to smoke a pipe on the after deck, while sitting in the steamer chair, Rainsford mentions “It’s so dark” and “I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids”(62). This detail adds even more suspense because Rainsford is now not only on the deck alone in an unfamilar place, but it is now pitch black outside, where he can’t tell the difference between his eyelids, or the night

Losing his balance trying to catch his pipe from falling, Rainsford falls overboard into what he says are the “blood-warm waters of the Carribbean Sea” (63) Rainsford then describes his struggle in trying to get the attention of the yacht members, saying he “struggled up to the surface and cried out, he wrestled himself out of his clothes and shouted with all his power” (63) then goes on to describe the yacht leaving him behind by saying “The lights of the yacht became ever-vanishing fireflies; then they were blotted out entirely by the night” (63). This part of the story is probably the most important suspense wise, as it describes Rainsford now being stranded alone at sea, in an unsafe and unfamiliar place, without anything such as food, clean water, a lifeboat, etc. and now, the yacht is much too far out at sea for Rainsford to even attempt to get its attention. Despite Rainsford’s desperate cries to try to signal the yacht that he has fallen off board, nobody on board the yacht has not noticed, therefore the yacht continues to smoothly sail on the Carribbean Sea without