Literary Element:

Foreshadowing

We foresee what could

"You're a big-game hunter, not a happen to Rainsford
philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar when he gets to the island
feels?
"Perhaps the jaguar does," observed
Whitney. Rainsford remembered the
"Bah! They've no understanding." shots. They had come from the
right, and doggedly he swam in
"Even so, I rather think they understand that direction, swimming with
one thing--fear. The fear of pain and the slow, deliberate strokes,
fear of death." conserving his strength.
Richard Connell uses
foreshadowing to bring
out the theme of strong
people exploiting the
feeble

The discussion on the The theme of inhumanity or the

vessel at the start of weak and the strong comes out.
the story foretells or People are accustomed to being
offers indications to at the highest point of the
the theme and its hunter-hunted evolved way of
importance. life. What happens if someone
else is at the top?

Be a realist. The world is made

up of two classes--the hunters
and the huntees. Luckily, you
and I are hunters. Do you think
we've passed that island yet?"