...“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 story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connel and the movie The Most Dangerous Game are alike in some ways, but different in many others. In the story "The Most Dangerous Game," Rainsford feel off the ship while trying to go through a channel. The lights were shifted which caused the ship to sink. He swam to the shore when he realized he was the only survivor. When he reached shore he heard this horrible scream and then three gunshots followed. Nearby in the bushes there was an indention that looked like something had fallen in the bushes. Rainsford kept walking when he found a house. He lifted the knocker and let it fall. The door opened and there was a big man standing in the doorway holding a long-barreled revolver and pointing...
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...General Zaroff’s Ship Trap Island General Zaroff was a very wealthy Cossack man, who was able to secure his money he inherited from his father through investment. He was forced out of his country after the fall of their government. Zaroff believed he was meant to be a hunter, because that is what he had done his entire life. The general killed animals at a very young age, fought in the military, and he even went all across the world hunting some of the most amazing game. Even though he had conquered many types of game that was not enough for him anymore. His life had become one big hunt and he needed to satisfy this thirst for the most dangerous game of all time. General Zaroff grew bored with hunting eventually because he was so good at it and always got his game. He needed a game with instinct and an animal just would not do anymore. General Zaroff finally new what game he wanted as his ultimate hunt. He needed to find a place where he could be free to engage in this twisted desire to hunt this dangerous...
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...because he came up with the booby traps so fast and they were efficient and they worked. (a) The most dangerous game, according to Zaroff, is to hunt human beings. (b) I do not think Zaroff is civilized because he is hunting real life humans beings. I don’t believe a civilized person would casually hunt a human. It’s not civilized behavior. (a) Rainsfords feels that hunting animals is acceptable. Because he doesn’t care how the animal feels once he kills it. He doesn’t feel guilty. (b) Rainsford doesn’t approve of Zaroff's hunting method. Because he is hunting people and Rainsford believes it’s murder, while Zaroff views it as a sport. That nothing is wrong with...
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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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...Rainsford’s Most Dangerous Game Good vs. evil is a widely known prompt in stories, movies, TV shows, etc. The villains and the heroes fighting to be the victor. It’s a dangerous game to play. Although for Mr.Rainsford, General Zaroff’s game is the most dangerous he will ever play. Throughout the time Rainsford spends on the lost island, he shows some traits that prove to be the undoubtful reasons he was able to break free from General Zaroff’s “hunting” trip. In The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell, Rainsford is a intelligent, moralistic, and strong willed character who shows us that if you stick to your beliefs, good will always triumph over evil. Rainsford is an extremely intelligent character in the story, The Most Dangerous Game....
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...have a screen adaptation or movie. More often than not, alterations and modifications are made for the screen. Many of these renditions are made to appeal to the audience's’ liking. Yet, in many cases, these modifications stray away from the author’s intentions for the story. “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a popular short story that has a 1932 film adaptation directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel. This 1932 rendition, is the first film adaptation of the short story from 1924. There are several obvious differences, as characters have been added and certain scenes that deviate from the original plot of the short story....
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...The Most Dangerous Game In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” a hunter and another hunter gets hunted. General Zaroff met another hunter in the story “The Most Dangerous Game” named Rainsford. Rainsford fell off his yacht and ends up having to swim to shore. Rainsford ends up being hunted by General Zaroff. They start to put the skills against each other. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” there is a saying that there are two classes the hunters and the prey. I agree with the statement because it’s describing how the statement works in hunting. Who were the hunters in the story? “I read all books on hunting published in English and in Russian. I have but one passion and that is hunting Mr.Rainsford and it is the hunt.” The hunters in...
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...The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell 1. Sanger Rainsford- A big-game hunter who has survived numerous near death experiences such as fighting on the frontlines in World War 1 to hunting unique and skilled animals in some of the most remote and enticing places in the world. General Zaroff- Zaroff has been a prominent hunter since his childhood. His first experience was learning to shoot a gun, and using it to kill his father’s prized turkeys. Later in his life, he commanded cavalrymen in Russia, and this helped him familiarize himself with the horrors of warfare. This experience made him accustomed to death and making him lose the ability to distinguish humans from beasts. Now he has bought an island and uses it to fulfill his hunting...
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...In the short story The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell tells the tail of Rainsford And his life threatening encounter with general Zaroff. Throw out this story it creates a clear difference between the hunters and the hunted The story portrays these two characters as one and the same until Zaroff explains his hunting exs kershaws and his new found interest in a specific prey to hunt, humans. Zaroff believes in one thing and that is that “ The world is made of two classes the hunters and the hunted” . This creates a problem for Rainsford in which he should go against his morals or become the prey in Zaroff’s lates hunt. The hunters in this story have a few qunek cheriteristeks. First of all, they enjoy the danger and excitement of the hunt while also showing little to no remorse for the animals that they are hunted. For example general Zaroff is cold and unforgiving man who shows no regret from the actions he has taken. Zaroff also believes that he was put on this earth to hunt, and shows this by saying “ my hand was made for the trigger”. While on the other hand Rainford starts of as thinking that he is the one at the top of the food chain, and believes that the animals he hunts are simple mindless creatures...
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...There are many people that you would not like because of how they look and act. Many people may have the appearance or attributes of one of their parents, but few people look and act different from their parents or any form of human traits. As shown in the short stories “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Interlopers” by Hector Hugh Munro, the people are like animals because they and act different from other humans. General Zaroff is becoming like an animal because he is beginning to act more savage like. When Rainsford is swept on the island he meets a man that seems normal, but the more time that he spends there the more he realises that there was something off about him. His eyes ,too, were black and very bright (Connell,4)....
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...In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, there are two characters named Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff. Only one of those two characters is civilized, but in the beginning of the story they both seem to be civilized. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, civilized is marked by well-organized laws and rules about how people behave with each other. Using this definition, Rainsford can be determined the more civilized person compared to Zaroff. Rainsford is more civilized because he refuses to kill another person, he treats other people appropriately, and he uses the best of his abilities to get out of a bad situation. First of all, Rainsford is more civilized than Zaroff because he refuses to kill people...
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...short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell uses characterization to build suspense. The personality difference between the protagonist, Rainsford, and the antagonist, General Zaroff, drives the plot. In the beginning, Rainsford is a confident hunter who cannot imagine what it would be like to be hunted. He asks Whitney, “Who cares how a jaguar feels?’"(144). This establishes Rainsford as a cocky hunter who focuses on himself only, viewing the world as divided into two classes, “the hunters and the huntees,” and seeing himself only as a hunter (145). Rainsford, whose hunting skills have been publicized, only imagines being the one to pull the trigger. Not only does Connell foreshadow the events to come, but he also uses irony because he will put Rainsford on the receiving end when Rainsford becomes the “huntee.”...
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...Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell share a common theme of violence and cruelty. In “The Most Dangerous Game” humans are hunted, as mere animals, to serve as the perfect prey to satisfy a desire for challenge. In “The Lottery” the townspeople are forced to participate in a ritual that will result in the death of an unwilling participant to satisfy a belief that the sacrifice of one of their own will guarantee a bountiful harvest. By comparison, the elements of violence and cruelty demonstrate the self-centeredness that abounds in each story. The Taking of Life for Personal Satisfaction In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Connell depicts Rainsford, the protagonist of the story, as a seasoned hunter. Through a conversation with his friend Whitney, the reader learns of Rainsford’s lack of sympathy for his prey, despite Whitney’s assertion that the prey has a complete understanding of fear, “the fear of pain and the fear of death” (Connell, 2010). This information reveals to the reader Rainsford’s matter-of-fact attitude toward the emotions of the hunter and the hunted. Through a twist of fate, Rainsford is stranded on an island, which he is drawn to by gun fire after falling off a boat, where he encounters General Zaroff. Zaroff is initially portrayed as an accommodating host, offering Rainsford food, clothing, and a place to rest. The two men discuss their various hunting ventures and, through this conversation, Zaroff’s sinister nature is...
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...“Obstacles are necessary for success because as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.” by Og Mandino.“The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story written by Richard Connell, which takes place after World War II on an abandoned island. The story talks about how Rainsford makes his way through General Zaroff's playground, narrowly escaping death at every corner. General Zaroff forces Rainsford into a game of murder that ends in Zaroff’s death. Throughout the story, Rainsford's beliefs,confidence, and perspective morphs and the story progresses, which makes him a dynamic character. The last obstacle that Rainsford overcome was the environment, which was the main cause of Rainsford being trapped on General Zaroff’s island, and it was also the reason why he eventually won the “ Most Dangerous Game”. The first obstacle that Rainsford overcame was the fear of being killed by General Zaroff....
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