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April 18th 2023

The Most Dangerous Game mood essay
INTRO-
Imagine being stranded on an island only to find out the person who lives there is a murder “The Most Dangerous Game” is just that with its many writing techniques to keep the reader on there toes. Richard Connell uses writing techniques such as Setting, Dramatic irony, and Point of View, to convey the idea of suspense through the story. Using word choice he has made the reader feel curious and suspenseful about what is going to happen and to the main character, Rainsford and what happens on that island.
Setting
The first writing technique that Richard Connell uses is setting, Richard Connell satiated “one enormous building--a …show more content…

Another aspect of that is that Richard Connell supported this idea by “The island is perfect for my purposes--there are jungles with a maze of traits in them, hills, swamps--"(171) where he is describing how the layout of the land of him home is like a game with the different obstacles and such. The next theory of dramatic irony in the title is, “Game” in hunting can be referred as the animal one is hunting in this Quote Richard Connell has staited "You've done well, Rainsford," the voice of the general called. "Your Burmese tiger pit has claimed one of my best dogs.” at this point in the story Rainsford has started being hunted and Rainsford being a hunter too he knows of a few tricks and so he tries to trap Zaroff to stop the “Game” but the trap gets one of Zaroff's dogs instead of him so the “Game” that Zaroff is hunting, Rainsford, has started to become dangerous for Zarroff to …show more content…

He is writing the story from Rainsford's perspective so we get to know what he is feeling. “Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed. Rainsford hesitated. He heard the hounds. Then he leaped far out into the sea. . . .” in this part of the story Rainsford has won zaroff's game and has lasted 3 days being hunted but Rainsford does not trust Zaroff to let him go home, and is trying to get rid of Zarroff so he can't hurt, hunt anyone ever again so Rainsford and Zaroff are fighting at this point, and Rainsford it trying to get away from Zaroff he was not feeling his way along, foot by foot. Rainsford, crouching there, could not see the general, nor could he see the pit. He lived a year in a minute. Then he felt an impulse to cry aloud with joy,” in this quote Zaroff is near a trap that Rainsford has set for him and Rainsford is close by hoping that Zaroff falls in and that he doesn't see Rainsford before he falls in. In this moment we can read how Rainsford is feeling in this moment and feel like we are there watching this happen using point of

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