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The Most Dangerous Game Mood Essay

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Jack Bersuder Mr. Spina English 9B 13 April 2023 Mood Essay In Richard Conells, “The Most Dangerous Game” the author uses Character Dialogue, Setting, and Foreshadowing to enhance the foreboding mood of the story. In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” the author uses character dialogue to enhance the foreboding mood of the story. Early in the story when Rainsford was on the yacht headed for Brazil when they passed an island that had a different feeling to it. “But it's gotten into sailor lore, somehow. Didn't you notice that the crew's nerves seemed a bit jumpy today?" (Connell, Par. 19.) Crazy, isn't it? Some little island can cause all of this superstition among all the sailors that know the water like its the back of their …show more content…

On the yacht, Rainsford notices something odd about his surroundings in the ocean, when the sailors were definitely spooked. "There was no breeze. The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window. We were drawing near the island then” (Connell, Par. 22) Setting is probably the most important part to create this foreboding mood is to have a spooky and almost weird setting. As Connell says “The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window” Keep in mind, you're in the Caribbean sea, I can assume there are not many times where the ocean is as flat as a plate glass window. In my opinion, Connell nails this foreboding mood perfectly, and it makes this a very good read and keeps the readers on the edge of their seats. Simultaneously, Rainsford heard a noise out in the distance, 3 times, a loud noise too. He knew what it was, gunshots. He got so spooked his pipe fell out of his mouth and as he tried to catch it he fell overboard and saw the yacht steam away. “The lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies; then they were blotted out entirely by the night” (Connell, Par. 33) Connell definitely states his foreboding mood to the story with this quote. Before Rainsford fell overboard he looked out past the boat and saw nothing. “I could sleep without closing my eyes;” Connell sets a very eerie mood here just showing how dark it is out in the Caribbean sea but you don't think that much of it until “As the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea dosed over his head.” Foreboding means you feel something bad is going to happen. Something bad happened but now it almost brings this suspense into the story, making the reader sit on the edge of their seat to read this story. The way Connell describes the setting in this story undoubtedly shows the foreboding mood he was trying to create and give off to his

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