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Suspense in most dangerous game
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 of anticipation. A foreshadowing exists in the beginning of the

story, Whitney and Rainsford are discussing their love for hunting.

Whitney, in his sensitivity, states that hunting is great "for the hunter"

implying that hunting is not fun for the prey.This statement can be used as

an example of foreshadowing the hunt between Rainsford and the

General. Another example of foreshadowing was when Rainsford and

Whitney are on the boat and Rainsford says, "Can't see it," and Whitney

replies, "You've good eyes," Whitney mentions that he has good

eyes to see the moose moving in the brown fall bush at four hundred

yards, however his sharp eyesight, cannot penetrate the darkness that is

regard to walk "through a moonless Caribbean night." There is

foreshadowing about the Rainsford really having a good eyes because he

can see them. Final example of foreshadowing in the story is when there

is a thought in Rainsfrod's mind during his conversation with Whitney, his

hunting partner onboard their ship, gives off a sense of foreboding when

he tells the reader, "What I felt was a mental chill; a sort of sudden dread."

Additionally, the gunshots he heard sounding off in the distance also

foreshadow the later events in that they establish some kind of presence

from the island the sailors so feared. It is foreshadowing the later events

in that they are on a ship and the island's name leaves a sense of

danger in

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