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    Today people use suspense for movies‚ book‚ or stories to seduce. Authors uses suspense to keep the reader interested in what they are reading. Suspense is also to keep the flow of the story. Richard ‚the author of the "Most Dangerous Game"‚ uses foreshadowing and metaphor to increase suspense throughout the story. According to the dictionary‚ foreshadowing means "to show or indicate beforehand." This use of a literary device encourages the reader to feel a sense

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    The Most Dangerous Game Sequel Rainsford awoke after the best night sleep of his life. It wasn’t just the fact that the bed was one of the comfiest he had ever slept in‚ or the fact he was exhausted after being hunted for three days‚ but the enormous relief he felt by beating the general at his own game. He spent most of his morning planning in his mind a payback for the general. It wasn’t revenge‚ but Rainsford felt that the general needed reminding that the game he was playing was wrong. However

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    Have you ever felt like your life was your own story or similar to a book you’ve read. Sometimes a book you are reading or have read is similar to the live you are living. It doesn’t matter if you’re reading in a loud or quiet place‚ or if it’s during the day or night at some point you would find a book similar to your life. Literature connects with life‚ because in a way our life is a story we have our own conflict‚ we see things in our point of view‚ and we characterize people or the other way

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    in “The Most Dangerous Game” In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell‚ Sager Rainsford‚ is faced to fight against general Zaroff by being an animal. To understand the suspenseful tone Connell conveys in “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ you have to look at the three settings of the story‚ the yacht‚ the jungle‚ and the mansion through diction‚ details‚ and sensory imagery‚ that help the author reveal the danger of the game. The yacht Rainsford was on in “The most Dangerous Game” presents

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    conflict is supposed to surprise the reader and change the story completely. Once the conflict hits its over very soon and often there is no looking back. Thats one of the reasons that writers chose to include conflict in their stories. In “The Most Dangerous Game” ‚ Richard Connell provides one way of rising conflict called; Human vs Nature. This form of rising conflict shows a struggle between the character and the situation the character is put into. When Rainsford fell off of the yacht‚ and stumbled

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    Choices Made in The Dangerous Game Can a man be driven from humble humanity to gross inhumanity by circumstance or situation? What effect do one’s choices and training have on his morals? At some point in our lives we will all be forced to answer questions similar to these‚ and two characters in Connell’s story "The Most Dangerous Game" are not exempt from these life decisions. Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff are both wealthy‚ both are hunters‚ and eventually both men are put into situations

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    In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the author‚ Richard Connell‚ does an outstanding job of portraying the bizarre adventure of an insane‚ however experienced hunter‚ General Zaroff. The protagonist‚ Rainsford‚ another experienced hunter from New York City‚ appears on General Zaroff’s island‚ explores‚ and eventually encounters with Zaroff. They introduce themselves‚ settle down‚ and begin to talk. During the talk with the general‚ Rainsford soon learns that the General was not only a hunter;

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    Fictional stories are just one gateway for some people to express themselves and others to relate to and escape from normal‚ everyday life. As we look at the two stories “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell we will look at the different conflicts that appear‚ the different ways each major character experiences conflict‚ and how these conflicts are eventually resolved. In the short story “The Lottery” a small village of about three-hundred people is depicted

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    The Elements of Plot in “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell has his own ways‚ that I am going to uncover‚ of controlling the plot of “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ which is an attention- grabbing fiction book. The short story starts off with an exposition‚ that introduces Rainsford‚ the protagonist‚ and how he feels about hunting; the author uses a lot of detail to show the story was under a considerable amount of amplification. Richard Connell has several conflicts leading up to a suspenseful

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    In Richard Connell’s short story‚ The Most Dangerous Game‚ is based around a famous New Yorker hunter who fell off a boat and swims to an isolated and much feared island‚ called the “Ship Trap Island”. Rainsford‚ a famous hunter in New York was travelling to the Amazon forest to hunt the Jaguar. While on board passing the much-feared Ship Trap Island‚ he heard three gunshots. Trying to get a better look‚ he went on to the deck but unexpectedly drops his cigar. Trying to reach for it‚ he fell into

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