...hyperbole, simile, and foreshadowing. Richard Connell uses literary devices such as irony, foreshadowing, and imagery in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” to add an effective message. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the author, Richard...
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...The Most Dangerous Game essay In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” (Richard Connell) Rainsford ends up being hunted by General Zaroff. After Rainsford falls off his yacht, on his way to hunt, he takes refuge on Zaroff’s island. As Rainsford is trying to find shelter on the island he sees lights in the jungle and walks toward them. When he finds the source of the lights he knocks on the door of Zaroff’s mansion. Following Rainsford knocking on the heavy door, Ivan answers it without a word, Rainsford is allowed to stay there and get better. Even though Zaroff let Rainsford stay at his mansion and get better he cannot be trusted. In this gruesome story the prey are human beings. “Civilized? And you shoot down men?” (Connell, page 226) Zaroff has been hunting since he was a small child, he started getting to the point where hunting had begun to bore him. So he made a new type of “game”, and his game is...
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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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...“The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell the author of “The Most Dangerous Game” wrote a very suspenseful story. This story takes place in the caribbean jungle, it takes place here because Zaroff likes hunting big game but it soon begins to bore him. Zaroff meets Rainsford in the jungle and sees his hunting skills and realizes that they are good. Zaroff invites him to to his house, but little does he know what he is getting himself into. Clearly, Richard Connell wrote a very intresting story. There are different types of hunters in the story. “You're a big time hunter, not a philosopher” (Connell 216). This quote is describing that while Zaroff and Rainsford hunt, they do not waste time to get to their prey. Zaroff hunts big game like...
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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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...Most Dangerous Game In the story “Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Rainsford the main character is trapped on an island with a crazy hunter who was bored with hunting found a way to spice things he hunt people. Many parts in the story make people think about why he would do such a thing hunt people. When General Zaroff explains his game of hunting to Rainsford it is obvious that to hunt people is wrong. One thing in the story is hard to answer it is when Rainsford talks to his friend. It is when Rainsford classifies the world into two categories the hunters and the hunties. The story says “My hand were made for the trigger…”(pg 223 Connell) and for the hunters that is how they feel but, that is how the people in the world feel...
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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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...In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, General Zaroff is shown to be a murderous, evil person, welcoming, and forceful. General Zaroff is murderous. When General Zaroff tells Rainsford that he hunts humans too so Rainsford starts a conversation with the General. “ Hunting? Good God, General, What you speak of is murder” (Connell 70). So General Zaroff is a murderer and sometimes a hunter. General Zaroff is shown to be a hunter, someone who hunts down animals and sometimes humans. Although the General is also nice at welcoming. During the story, General Zaroff is shown to be welcoming. This shows why General Zaroff is nice to people when he meets them. “another man was coming down the broad marble steps...he advanced to Rainsford...
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...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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...Suspense causes readers to want to read. This is clear in “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell as the tension captures readers. Through the usage of Chekov’s Gun, foreshadowing, and imagery, Connell is able to create a suspenseful story. First, Connell uses Chekov’s Gun to create suspense. Rainsford and Whitney talk casually about hunting; however, what they talk about becomes critical to the rest of the story. “The world is made of two class- the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters” (1). However, Rainsford who said that learns the feeling of being hunted. After using Chekov’s gun, Connell uses foreshadowing to create suspense. Secondly, Connell uses foreshadowing to create tension in the story. Instead of directly...
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...The Most Dangerous Game Essay In the story “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, the hunter of beginning becomes hunted by the end. The story shows how it would be like to be hunted, or give us an animal’s perspective of being hunted. It also shows how it would be like to be a hunter of a person. In between, it also shows the transition from hunter to hunted. In this world, hunter shall become the hunted. There were many different hunters in this story to begin with. In the story, Whitney begins to say, “‘We should have some good hunting up in the Amazon.”’ ~ “(Connell 215.)” In this quote, Whitney, who appears to be a hunter, is talking to Rainsford about hunting in the Amazon with new guns from Purdey’s. It also shows that Rainsford is a hunter by, Whitney and himself re having a conversation about hunting jaguars. Rainsford is also a famous hunter, hunting many things and has books written about him. In the story, Zaroff is talking to Rainsford.“‘He made me a hunter.”’ ~ “(Connell 223.)” Zaroff, who says this, is telling Rainsford about how God makes some people into artists or poets, but made him a hunter. Those were the hunters...
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...The Winner of the Most Dangerous Game In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell,the hunter becomes the hunted. The two main characters are hunters; one is a Cossack who is a cold blooded murder, and the other one is an excellent hunter with morals that are about to be put under a big challenge. The main character Rainsford is sailing to the Amazon looking for great adventures, but he falls off the boat and swims to an island that the sailors call “Trap Island”. On the island, he finds a mansion in the middle of all the vegetation. In the mansion Rainsford is offered shelter from General Zaroff and Ivan, who are two Cossacks, but the main problem unfolds when General Zaroff refuses to help Rainsford get off of the island and...
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...Irony, Conflict and Theme in “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Destructors” English 102 Composition and Literature Spring 2016-D15 LUO Belinda Joseph–L27213212 APA Thesis Statement and Outline “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Destructors” Thesis Statement: Connell and Greene reveal with the use of irony, conflict and theme, mankind’s human nature, exposing man’s most primal instincts and desires through their characters. I. Irony A. The hunter becomes the hunted. 1. In a conversation about Jaguar hunting with Whitney, Rainsford exclaims, “You’re are a big game hunter, not a philosopher, who cares how a jaguar feels?" (Connell, 1924, p.1). 2. Rainsford is in the place of the prey and Zaroff has the advantage. “It was Rainsford who knew the full meaning of terror”. (Connell, 1924, p.11). 3. Roles reverse and Rainsford kills him in the end. “He had never slept in a better bed”. (Connell, 1924, p.13). B. Unexpected behavior. 4. Trevor the son of an architect becoming a gang leader. (Greene, 1954, p. 1). 5. Moral about Old misery’s money “We aren’t thieves....Nobody is going to steal anything from this house.” (Greene, 1954, p. 6). 6. Food and a blanket is taken to Old Misery “We don’t want you to starve Mr. Thomas” (Greene, 1954, p. 10). II. Conflict C. Rainsford struggle with “Man vs. Self” 7. Rainsford’s survival to stay alive. 8. Rainsford’s wits and state of mind...
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...Crime and Punishment Outline I. Introduction A. “What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind -- then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be." Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment. B. In the short stories, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell and The Destructors by Graham Greene, we will look at the similarities and differences in the characterization element of fiction as they relate to the crimes committed in the stories. II. Body A. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell 1. Characters 2. Qualities and Motivations B. The Destructors by Graham Greene 1. Characters 2. Qualities and Motivations C. Comparisons of the Short Stories 1. The Most Dangerous Game crime 2. The Destructors crime III. Conclusion A. In the end of these two stories, “justice” was served. B. As the protagonists of the short stories, Rainsford and Trevor succeeded in “punishing” General Zaroff and Mr. Thomas for the crimes they committed while they in turn committed crimes themselves. Crime and Punishment “What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be." Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment. When a crime is committed usually punishment...
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...Richard Connell wrote a short story named “The Most Dangerous Game” and skillfully controls the elements of it is what makes this story the interesting and exciting piece that it is. The exposition of the story is the first part of the carefully planned out sequence Connell has laid out. The climax is the most intriguing part of the story and really gets the reader excited. The resolution of the story is Connell’s strongest point and wraps up all the events. The way Richard Connell put the exposition, climax, and resolution together in the story makes it such an eventful, exciting, and lesson-learning experience. The beginning of the story (the exposition) begins with Rainsford having a conversation with his friend Whitney. Rainsford says to Whitney ““Don’t talk rot, you’re a big game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares about how a jaguar feels?”” Then Whitney retorts with ““Perhaps the jaguar does.”” (Pg 60). The dialog in the start of the story is the dramatic effect that draws in the reader. The writing of the exposition, climax, and resolution in this story is truly fascinating and makes it extremely enjoyable to read....
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