Changing the sentence from a very long sentence into a short and choppy helps the suspense by not giving the reader a lot of information and making them really think and wonder.
For example:
"The stranger watched, a look in his eyes and this feeling spread throughout my body."
or
"There was a man watching, his blue eyes had this look in them that made me shiver with fear. His pale face held no emotion and made him seem as if he was just a corpse standing on his own."
The second one might sound better, yes, but the second one really makes you think and really builds the suspense.
"Who is this stranger? What does he look like? What feeling spread throughout their body?"
So instead of knowing a lot about this stranger, you know little to nothing and it really makes you want to know more, and definitely build the suspense.
Rainsford does not believe animals and people are the same. Here he claims that he is a hunter and that if General Zaroff hunts people, he is a murderer. This implies that Rainsford does not feel as if killing animals matters or that they feel anything at all the way humans do. He believes that a kill for sport can only be considered murder if it is a human being killed.
Earlier on in the short story, he also mentions directly to Whitney that he believes animals feel differently than humans do, and that their lives do not matter in the way his and Whitney's do.
press Prtsc sysrq (print screen) then paste (ctrl v) in painy
Setting: Greg’s house (which is on Upper Surrey street)
Time: middle school
