Foreshadowing Examples In The Most Dangerous Game Analysis

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When you have to choose between survival or death many people would choose to survive,but what would you choose? In this story rainsford our protagonist chooses to try and survive from the game General Zaroff,-our antagonist- made because he thought hunting animals weren’t challenging or fun enough.

In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” author Richard Connell uses foreshadowing to create suspense.In this quote “The old charts call it ship trap island…” the author makes it clear to the reader that not many ships get out alive or at all off this island. A second example that shows connell using foreshadowing to create suspense is by this quote he wrote “No animal had a chance with me anymore… I had to invent a new animal to hunt...” He uses

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