Four Important Literary Elements In 'The Most Dangerous Game'

My favorite short story in this unit would be The Most Dangerous Game. The four most important literary elements in this story to me would have to be:

(1)dialogue;(2)antagonist(3)setting; and (4)foreshadowing.

The dialogue in the story between Rainsford, and General Zaroff was very interesting and left you wanting to know what happened next, mainly because General Zaroff was very cryptic. Like the conversation between General Zaroff, and Rainsford when Zaroff is telling him about going to hunt the ideal animal.

“I wanted the ideal animal to hunt,’ explained the general. ‘So I said: ‘What are the attributes of an ideal quarry?’ And the answer was, of course: ‘It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason.’

‘But no animal can reason,’ objected Rainsford.

‘My dear fellow,’ said the general, ‘there is one that can.’

‘But you can’t mean---’

He lives on a remote island alone with one servant (Ivan). He is a very elegant and wealthy man. A true “cosmopolite” according to Rainsford. He says he is a professional big game hunter like Rainsford, and he claims to have killed every known animal on Earth. So when he talks about being bored of killing these animals it makes you wonder what he wants to kill next… He is of course one of the most important characters in the story, because without him Rainsford would not have been hunted in the story, and it would just be an abandoned remote island with nothing special about it at all.

There are two examples of foreshadowing in The Most Dangerous Game. The name of the island, “Ship-Trap Island”, and the conversation between Rainsford, and Whitney debating whether or not animals have feelings. The foreshadowing creates suspense and it makes you want to keep reading to find out more, though you can almost predict what is going to happen, and I think the author really accomplished this in The Most Dangerous