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Book Summary: The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

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The most Dangerous Game In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Rainsford was on the a ship watching the sea and they hit a bump and he fell off. It was pitch black when Rainford fell off, then he started swimming he heard three gun three shots. He listen and followed the shot once rainford's got out of the water he saw a building and he knocked on the door and a guy appeared with a gun to his head. Throughout the story, Connell uses mood, suspense and foreshadowing. Mood is used in the beginning when general zaroff walk rainford around and showed him where everything was he showed him where he was staying, the stuff he killed like the animals. After general Zaroff was done showing him the stuff he asked if we wanted dinner and rainford said yes. he cooked Rainford a nice meal like steak and potatoes and a salad. after they were both done eating he told Rainsford “ And now said the general, “I want to show you my new collection of heads. Will you come with me to the library?” (Connell 76). I think this creates mood because if your Rainford and you heard would you like to my collection of heads you would be like why do you have a collection of head in your house and you …show more content…

rainsford set a trap to get greanl zaroff and end the game of greanl zaroff trying to kill rainford and use rainsford mean for other people to eat and then he would cut off his head and put it on a wall. so while all of this going in rainsford head he heard people coming but one thing the narrator says it “ Rainsford, crouching there, could not see the general, nor could he see the pit. He lives a year in a minute.” This is suspense to me because he could not see the grenal coming up on to find him. rainford was behind a tree and you know you can't see through trees. So rainford just sat there and wait tell he going to die or he heard a noise that someone has set off his

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General Zaroff said “I’m going now to have my wound dressed, it is only a slight one, but I shall be back.” (Connell, 26) The author states that Rainsford is very intelligent. He uses his hunting experiences to try and outsmart Zaroff and uses his knowledge to figure out what to

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Zaroff had this theory that Rainsford was trying to kill him and he was right but for a good reason. Rainsford walked up to the

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Everyone has to overcome adversity in their life. In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” the main character, Rainsford, fell of his boat at night time On the Island, Rainsford finds a home where General Zaroff lives. The problem is that the only way he can leave the island is if he survives a “game”. Where General Zaroff is hunting him. So Rainsford has to survive for three days.

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Hunting is a game where you can have fun killing a certain type of animal, but could be very dangerous at the same time. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford is a character that is a very good hunter. So one day him and his buddy's went out on a yacht and went out on the sea to go to the caribbean to look for this island to hunt Jaguars. But while on a yacht he feel of the boat and fell into the sea. Moving on he was on this Island and met this General.

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Turns out General Zaroff hunts people for a challenge when rainsford found out he was shocked. Then it all turns for the worst when the General wants to hunt him. Rainsford was one of the lucky ones he outlast Zaroff and in turn kills him. Throughout the story, Connell uses Irony, Suspense, and Foreshadowing

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His first thought is to get as far away as he can, ‘His first idea was to put as distance between himself and General Zaroff.’ But as he calms down and starts thinking rationally, he realizes he needs to try to survive and outsmart Zaroff and play along with his game. As the days go by he starts losing his morals and tries to kill Zaroff, first by dropping a log on him, ‘The dead tree, delicately adjusted to rest on the cut living one crashed down and struck the general.’ Rainsford has started losing his morals and getting more in touch with his beast.

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This scene is significant because Rainsford kills Zaroff, accomplishing his goal of surviving while on the island.. The author again uses revealing actions since, on page 22 not only does connell’s story not come out and tell you Zaroff is dead, but it also shows how Rainsford accomplished his goal of surviving. “The general made a deep bow. I see he said. Splendid !

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Richard Connell’s strategic use of light and darkness as well as size imagery in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” represents the danger levels that the character faces but in a rather odd way than what the average reader would assume. Connell treats light within the text of the story as an object to avoid and rather large objects to bond with. Darkness within the novel is treated more as a physical object rather than a wavelength of light and is described as something the character can feel. By giving light and darkness as well as sizes opposite perceptions, Connell clearly attempts to symbolize danger in a rather unique way in which a reader audience must pay close attention.

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“Rainsford held his breath. The general’s eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree. Rainsford froze there, every muscle tensed for a spring... Rainsford lay; a smile spread over his brown face...he turned his back on the tree and walked carelessly away, back along the trail he had come”(15). This mainly increases the level of suspense in the story because this is the climax and the reader wants to know whether Zaroff will decide to kill Rainsford or not.

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In this case, the story is told mostly through Rainsford’s eyes which creates suspense, for Rainsford’s perspective is quite different from Zaroff’s. For instance, when Zaroff looked up at the tree Rainsford was hiding in but his eyes stopped before they “reached the limb where Rainsford lay” (Connell 12), the reader’s heart must’ve skipped a beat as they presumed that Zaroff had noticed Rainsford’s presence and decided to continue the game for entertainment. This creates suspense because if it had been in Zaroff’s point of view, the reader would know if he had seen Rainsford or not, but because it was in Rainsford’s point of view, this scene raises questions. On the other hand, after Rainsford had jumped off the cliff, the standpoint of the story shifts towards Zaroff. As he went home to have an “exceedingly good dinner in [Zaroff’s]

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In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell tells a story about an excellent hunter who has now become the hunted and if he will survive? The main character Rainsford has fallen off a boat in which he is trapped and then finds out about a horrific “game” created by the owner of the land named Zaroff. The “game” is between Rainsford and Zaroff where they will both be in the jungle to hunt one another and the survivor will be declared the winner. Zaroff has given Rainsford a knife, food and some camouflage clothing. Since Zaroff has been playing this game for a while and knows the land thick and thin he is more advanced in this game.

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The Most Dangerous Game Conflicts All stories have to have a conflict, the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell has three important conflicts. Man against man, man against nature, man against himself are the three main conflicts that take place. For man against man Rainsford and General Zaroff are fighting each other in the hunting ‘game’. For man against nature Rainsford is fighting the sea once he hears the gunshots and is trying to get out of the water.

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When faced with life threatening situations, people have different reactions that can either save them, or let fear cause them to make fatal mistakes. In Ray Bradbury's science fiction short story, "A Sound of Thunder", the character Eckels goes on a safari in the past to hunt dinosaurs. Taking one look at the dinosaur, Eckels panics, steps off the path, kills a butterfly and causes a ripple in time that changes the future for the worst. However, a different response is shown in Richard Connell's science fiction short story, "The Most Dangerous Game". In the short story, the main character and hunter Sanger Rainsford falls off a boat and arrives on a mysterious island that is known to be dangerous to sailors.

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“The Most Dangerous Game” Essay In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell A man named Rainsford hears a gunshot and falls off a boat on to which he was traveling upon. Rainsford swims to this island to which he heard the gunshots, once on land he walks around and finds an unusual sight A mansion. When inside the mansion he comes across a man Named General Zaroff whos is a fan of his. Zaroff he hunts humans.

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Most people when they hear “The Most Dangerous Game” they think of bull riding or other dangerous games that don’t involve death. “The Most Dangerous Game” is a suspenseful cliff hanging story that follows the days of a castaway on the island of a crazed hunter. Rainsford is a big game hunter who falls off a boat near the island of General Zaroff, a big Cossack general who is looking for an alternative to hunting dangerous animals but with a twist. Throughout “The Dangerous Game” Rainsford and General Zaroff both show examples of IRony and exert arrogance.

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