Jaws And The Most Dangerous Game: A Literary Analysis

What makes a story or movie keep you engaged and interested? An interesting story is made up of suspense, conflict, and foreshadowing. Jaws and The Most Dangerous Game share a common theme known as survival, they both use suspense and foreshadowing in similar and different ways to keep the audience on the edge of their seat. Suspense, foreshadowing, and conflict are literary techniques used to keep the story line interesting. Jaws and The Most Dangerous Game both share a common conflict and theme known as survival.

Jaws and The Most Dangerous Game both share a common conflict and theme known as survival. In the movie Jaws the main conflict was the deadly shark killing people. This is an example of man versus nature. There is also an example of man versus self because Brody has a fear of water and he overcomes his fear by getting on the boat and killing the shark. In the short story The Most Dangerous Game its theme was also survival. For example, the main character Rainsford had to outsmart his enemy that was endangering his life. This was an example of man

versus man because Rainsford was fighting against Zaroff. Some other conflicts that occur in The Most
Dangerous Game was when it was Rainsford against nature. Which includes quicksand, dogs, the ocean, and trees. Jaws and The Most Dangerous Game both share a common theme which is survival. They also shared examples of man versus man, man versus nature, and man versus self.
In the movie Jaws and The Most Dangerous Game they share differences and similarities of how they use foreshadowing.

In the movie Jaws, an example of foreshadowing was when Quinn told Brody to be careful with the oxygen tanks because they could blow up if they are messed with. Later on when Brody faces the shark he remembers what Quinn said and throws one of the oxygen tanks in the shark's mouth and the shark blows up and dies. In the short story The Most Dangerous Game there are many ways the author shows foreshadowing. For example, when Rainsford hear the screams of the “animal” being shot he couldn't recognize what animal had been killed. Later on in the story he discovers that the “animal” was no animal to all and that it was a human that had been killed. Jaws and the short story both showed foreshadowing by foreshadowing the challenges along the main character's journey and the main outcome of the

story.
Jaws and The Most Dangerous Game both have similar and different ways of showing or creating suspense. One of the ways they create suspense in the movie Jaws was what angle the camera was facing. For example, at the very beginning of the movie the camera was showed from the shark's perspective as if the shark was underneath the girl swimming above. Another way they showed suspense in Jaws was the suspenseful music. Whenever the shark would attack suspense music would play and you would know the shark is coming but no one else does. In The Most Dangerous Game they created suspense by letting the reader know that Rainsford was hearing sounds. Towards the beginning of the short story he heard gunshots and “animal” screams. Which makes the reader wonder who was shooting the gun and what was being shot. Jaws and The Most Dangerous Game both share a similarity in the way they created suspense. For example, they use sounds and word choice to create situational tension.
Jaws and The most dangerous game have many differences and similarities when talking about how the author shows suspense, foreshadowing, and conflict due to one being a movie and one being a short story. Foreshadowing and suspense are what make up a story, though they are used differently in all stories. An example of this is between Jaws and The Most Dangerous Game, we got the similar theme through different examples of foreshadowing and suspense. The two stories have many similarities through how the story is made up, though they also share lots of differences.