...In the short story The Most Dangerous Game, Written by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford is being hunted by General Zaroff. In the end of the story he wins the game by killing Zaroff. But how did he win. Sanger Rainsford succeeded at the game because he is great at making traps, he is very fit, and he is an amazing hunter. His first skill is in trap making. And his first trap is the malay mancatcher, then there is the burmese tiger pit, and finally the uganda knife trap. These traps are very dangerous. The first on injured General Zaroff’s shoulder and after he said, “If you are within the sound of my voice, as I suppose you are, let me congratulate you. Not many men can make a malay mancatcher”(Connell 26). All of the traps helped...
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...Rainsford was on a boat and then he fell off the boat into the Caribbean Sea. He tried to catch back up to the boat, but the boat was going to fast. He was in big trouble, so he had to swim to the Ship Trap Island where he could find shelter, because he was very tired and hungry. In this short story, " The Most Dangerous Game," the big game hunter Sanger Rainsford is tested in these following ways : the strong versus the weak, the value of life, and becoming what he fears. So in this next paragraph, he is gonna find out what his strings and weaks are. At this point in time he is getting scared, because he keeps hearing weird noises in the woods. While he was walking in the woods he came upon this house. So he walked up to the house and...
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...Have you ever had a downward spiral in your life? In “The Most Dangerous Game” and “Survivor Type” had a downward spiral in the story. The main character in The Most Dangerous Game is Sanger Rainsford and Richard Pine is the main character in Survivor Type. The story The Most Dangerous Game was written by Richard Connell. The story The Survivor type was written by Stephen King. Sanger Rainsford and Richard Pine had a downward spiral and animalistic behavior. Sanger Rainsford downward spiral started when he was going to start hunting with his hunting friend and he fell off his yacht, then he was swimming to an island. He found a castle and he went to the castle to see if people were there. A guy named Zaroff was in the castle and he was...
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...Setting and its Conflicts Settings create conflicts in the real world and in books. In the stories “The Sniper” a short story by Liam O’Flaherty and “The Most Dangerous Game” a short story by Richard Connell the settings create conflict for the characters. “The Sniper” takes place in Dublin, Ireland during a civil war. The main character, a Republican sniper, encounters a sniper who is a Free Stater who traps him on a rooftop. “The Most Dangerous Game” takes place on an island in the Caribbean called Ship-Trap Island. The main character is Sanger Rainsford a hunter, when he falls off his ship he swims to Ship-Trap Island. There he meets General Zaroff a hunter who takes the game way too far. Rainsford finds out that the General hunts humans in the island and that he will be the next to be hunted. In both short stories, the setting creates conflicts for the characters throughout the story. In “The Sniper” the setting creates many conflicts throughout the story. One is when...
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...sappy love story. In the book, The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell, General Zaroff is hunting Sanger Rainsford throughout the woods. It starts out by Rainsford falling off a yacht and swimming to an island that is said to be haunted, he finds himself in front of a huge mansion where General Zaroff lives. Zaroff later tells Rainsford he hunts humans because it is a greater satisfaction than hunting animals. Rainsford refuses to hunt with Zaroff so as punishment, Zaroff hunts Rainsford. In the story, The Most Dangerous Game, Zaroff’s character is very knowledgeable, devoted and demanding. Throughout The Most Dangerous Game, the main character Zaroff demonstrated that he was a very knowledgeable person. Even though he is secluded on the island, he is still in the know of all the famous hunters in the world. “It is a very great pleasure and honour to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, to my home.” (17) Zaroff portrays knowledge when he admits to Rainsford that he has read all books on hunting in three different languages. “I read all books on hunting published in English, French and Russian.” (18) Lastly, when Zaroff makes his way through the woods at night, this is showing he knows his way around the island. “The general could follow a trail through the woods at night; he could follow an extremely difficult trail; he must have uncanny powers. Zaroff is a very knowledgeable man in the story The Most Dangerous Game and it is demonstrated well throughout...
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...Rivera 1 Marcos G. Rivera Prof. Lauren Lund English 102 14 July 2013 Comparison and Contrast of “The Child by Tiger” and “The Most Dangerous Game” The short story “The Child by Tiger” by Thomas Wolfe is a about a religious, talented Negro named Dick Prosser who served in the army and is the servant of a middle class family in the south. This story takes a shocking turn when Dick goes on a killing spree throughout the town and a mob finally reaches him and kills him with no remorse. In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, Sanger Rainsford falls off of a yacht that was heading towards the Amazon for a hunting trip. He swims to an island where he finds himself being the hunted by General Zaroff an aristocrat who had dominated the sport of hunting to the point that he became so bored, he purchased the island to specifically hunt men. None of these men survived his game. That is until Rainsford has no choice but to also participate in this game. At some point of each story, the animalistic act of man hunting man is witnessed. In “The Child by Tiger” Wolfe demonstrates that no matter how strong a person may be mentally, a human will sooner or later have a breaking point. The author in this story may also be trying to make the reader understand how society or environment a person is surrounded by may sometimes lead an individual to commit such horrendous acts of violence. Dick Prosser is seen as a gentle person who suddenly goes through a rampage...
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...In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford is a cunning, evasive, and foresightful character. Rainsford is a cunning character in the story when he sets the three extremely clever traps in an attempt to kill and defend himself from General Zaroff. “I have played the fox; now I must play the cat of the fable.” (Connell 75). This quote shows that he believes he is been cunning because he compared himself to a fox, which is an animal known for being extremely cunning. During the story, Rainsford is also very evasive. He shows that he is evasive when he escapes General Zaroff with his clever traps, trick, and even jumping off a cliff to avoid capture. “20 feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed. Rainsford hesitated. He...
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...in between a wall and rock for six days, escaping from your home country, and being hunted by another human being are all stories that have happened to these survivors. During "My Escape From North Korea," Hyeonseo Lee describes how she became free from her home, in "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell describes how Rainsford survived being hunted by Zaroff, and in "Trapped," Aron Ralston describes how he survived being trapped for six days and amputating his arm. All of these people went through very tough experiences but in the end they all got away. Many people died doing the same things as Hyeonseo Lee during that same time but she survived, many others also died from being hunted by Zaroff but Rainsford survived, and...
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...“The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell is a short story about conflict. The two main characters are the world renowned hunter, Mr. Sanger Rainsford, and Russian Cossack General Zaroff. In the story, Rainsford is on a friend’s yacht, and while he is on the yacht he is smoking a cigar. He hears a sound that intrigues him. He is curious because it sounded like a gunshot. Curiously, he hops on the railing. While teetering on the yacht’s railing, his cigar falls out of his mouth. He tries to catch it, but it falls into the ocean and he falls off the railing. While struggling to keep afloat in the ocean, Rainsford yells at the top his lungs hoping that someone aboard the yacht will hear him and tell the captain to turn the yacht around. However,...
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...This dispute on Sanger Rainsford is not simply discussed , as many of his actions display the utmost duplicitous intentions. He is accused of committing a murder against General Zaroff and Ivan Mikhailov. The evidence to support this are included in the medical examiner report, the United States Navy interview with Sanger Rainsford and the San Lucar, naval officer notes, and the dialogue within The Most Dangerous Game. To commence the preliminary of the trial we will address the medical examiner report. It states General Igor Zaroff was brutally murdered from a sword wound to his upper right torso he also had a significant shoulder injury and bruises covering his neck and eyes. He died at approximately 10:30 pm. His companion Ivan Mikhailov died from a severe neck wound suggesting a knife was impaled in his throat....
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...same. As "The Lottery" deal with winnings by stoning people, but when the winner are chosen it is a different ball game. I. The Lottery Fictional story setting is normal people from a small village. A. The Lottery story takes place on the sunny summer day on June 27th. B. The place represents normal business places such as post office, schools, and a bank. C. The story takes places around ten o’clock in the morning. II. The main characters are the 300 people of the village. A. Mr. Summers is a jovial man that conducted the lottery. B. Tessie Hutchinson, who was stoned. C. Old man Warner, who was the oldest person in the village, III. The people from the village seem happy to be gathering around for the lottery that takes up to two hours since it was only about 300 people in town. IV. The most dangerous game story settings take place late at night in a yacht on an island, known as Ship-Trap Island. A. General Zaroff’s home. B. Jungle V. The main characters are the General Zaroff’s and Sanger Rainsford. A. Whitney B. Ivan VI. Sanger Rainsford thought hunting animals was all fun and games until he become the victim, and he had to fight for survival while playing a mouse and cat game with General Zaroff's. Analyzing the two short stories, The Lottery by Shirley Johnson and The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, It seems that both stories have no moral of what is right, from what is wrong. The fictional...
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...In the short story by Richard Connell's The Dangerous Game, the conflict that is most crucial in this story is man versus man. Sanger Rainsford is being hunted down by a man killer named General Zaroff. The General says that hunting regular prey is too easy, so know he hunts humans. He made up a invisible channel so sailors would crash their boats, then he would kill them. Sanger Rainsford creates traps so he can escape the great General Zaroff. General Zaroff lives on a giant mansion in the middle of the Caribbean sea, which is very unusual. What is the major conflict in the story? The way that man vs man is being shown is that Rainsford has to play the game that General Zaroff has made. The story states that Rainsford gets a small, but...
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...going off to university by yourself everyone had that feeling of loneliness before. Isolation is not a feeling that you forget; it's nearly impossible to forget looking around and realizing that there is no one else around to help you. Both stories, High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game", have the theme of isolation, but they depict them a bit differently. The setting of both stories support the theme in one way or another, but the ways that the two protagonists are isolated is very different. The people they are surrounded by are also different. However, none of them are willing to help him so he is alone in the sense that he is helpless....
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...Is Rainsford and General Zaroffs personality so different? The Most Dangerous Game is about a man named Rainsford who falls into the Caribbean Sea and meets a man named General Zaroff. In this story Rainsford and General Zaroff are two characters who are different. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Sanger Rainsford can be described as a brave, clever, and dangerous person. Rainsford is brave because he takes and does things on his own even when it’s scary. This is seen in the story when it says “he caught a hold of a springy young sapling and to it he fastened his hunting knife with the blade point down the trail with a bit of grapevine he tied back the sapling, then ran for his life.”(pg. 53) This shows Rainsford is brave because he had a chance...
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...Yu, Bo-bae Language Arts: Cochran The Most Dangerous Game CER How is the Ending of the “The Most Dangerous Game” ironic? Richard Connell’s suspenseful short story “The Most Dangerous Game” ends with an ironic twist due to the fact that the main character, Sanger Rainsford, gets to experience the feelings of fear the huntee goes through that he thought was just instinct. After Rainsford’s first encounter with General Zaroff, he realizes that he is being hunted down and he thinks, “The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the true meaning of terror” (Connell 12). Before, Rainsford did not believe that the hunted had any feelings or reason, but after he was the one being hunted for a change, he is proven wrong...
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