The Hunt In The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

Such a terrifying experience as that depicted in the short story ¨The Most Dangerous Game¨, Richard Connell, could never be imagined by the usual person. Sanger Rainsford struggles ashore an island known as ship trap island after falling off of his yacht. On the island he meets the sole inhabitants of the island, General Zaroff, the protagonist, Zaroff soon tells Rainsford about his hunting of human beings and how he is going to hunt him. They go on their hunt and the hunt ends with Rainsford killing Zaroff. Connell achieves the major theme, hunt or be hunted, through the use of three literary elements: imagery, suspense, and foreshadowing. In the story Richard Connell uses imagery to describe the setting. ¨Jagged crags appeared to jut into the opaqueness.¨(Connell, 218) Throughout his writing he includes descriptions that make the reader imagine what the feelings that the characters have are. He says ¨It's like moist black velvet¨(Connell, 215) The imagery that he uses brings the reader into the story and connects them to the setting and describes and appeals to their senses in a way that makes the feel as though they are there. The imagery that he uses is the main point in why you feel like you are a character in the story.

During the story when Rainsford is questioning Zaroff about what he hunts on the island Connell builds up enough suspense for the reader to be forced to keep reading. The second time that he builds up a great amount of time is when Rainsford is hiding in a tree and the general walks directly underneath him. Although after the General walks away the reader comes to the realization that the general did in fact see him the suspense that was created still persuades the theme in a colossal way. By using these examples he builds up the great amount of suspense that is in the