In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell the theme is nothing is what is seems. The story of "The Most Dangerous Game" has a wide range of settings, first it was on the deck of a ship, and it proceeded onward to the water, where Rainsford needed to swim, until the point when he achieved the island. From that point he went to General Zaroff's stone house, where there Rainsford find out General Zaroff is hunting more than just animals, from there on, the setting moved to the woods chasing amusement began. “Hunting? Great Guns, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder.”
The authors’ messages can be compared through their use of diction. Passages 1 romanticizes the swamps with the “Exotic flowers. Among them floating hearts. Lilies. And rare orchids.
According to Dictonary.com adversity is “an adverse or unfortunate event or circumstance”. In two short stories the main characters have to deal with Adversity and they both have too uses there smarts to conquer it. The the Short Story “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell both of the main characters have to think of a way to outsmart their enemies. In “The Sniper” A Republican Sniper was laying watch on a roof. A cross the way there is another sniper wanting him dead.
Descriptive language is applied in writing because it engages the reader with the story. Most authors practice this in their writing, whether it be fiction or nonfiction. When authors include descriptive language, it helps tell the story that the author is trying to communicate in a vivid manner. Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, and Wild by Cheryl Strayed all used descriptive language. Heat-Moon’s, Krakauer’s, and Strayed’s application of imagery, personification, and symbolism helps portray their narratives and communicate the message that they intended.
The reader can understand the story more, and feel a connection with the book. For example, in Twain’s short story, diction is used to provide a distinction between the East and the West. The western people are described as less educated so their word choice is “dumbed down”, while the more educated eastern people, have excellent word choice. The narrator, from the East, has a distinguishing tone and exquisite word choice. When he says “I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth; that my good friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley” (Twain 382), his word choice proves
descriptive which would make the reader
One example of this is when he wrote “He reached the house just as another flash of lightning changed the night to day for an instance, then returned the graffiti-scarred building to the grim shadows.” This sentence helps develop a sinister mood, and also reveals the condition of Greg’s town. Another instance of descriptive writing is “... Greg could see a squarish patch of light on the floor.” The singular patch of light in the otherwise dark structure builds up suspense.
Flowers for Algernon When there is a book that has a movie adaptation usually there is differences between the two. In Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes there were a lot of differences between the book and the movie. There were many differences between the two like Charlie’s relationships, the date it takes place, where he works, and absence of characters. One thing I noticed in the movie that was different in the book is where Charlie works.
Lizabeth and the children “hated those marigolds”, those peculiar organisms “interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place” their beauty “said too much”; it “did not make sense” nor did the necessity to uproot “weeds” (Collier 8). The children, or the weeds, felt intimidated by these beautiful and loved marigolds. They feared the imbalance. Revenge was sought. Lizabeth and the children would destroy the flowers.
“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, both portray many examples of imagery. As the two stories progress, both of their imagery levels become very detailed and create an entertaining plot for the reader to imagine. From going in depths to give imagery of the island, the characters, and the scenery in the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” uses many examples of imagery for the reader, making the story better and more senseful. Even though both of the stories provide imagery, “The Most Dangerous Game” provides the better of the two stories. There are many ways “The Most Dangerous Game” uses imagery to create imaginative ways for the reader to look at the story.
Much like how the weather and seasons change the atmosphere of a setting, word choice and imagery can also morph and shape the mood of an environment as well. Especially in a world where there are countless numbers of words, choosing a select few to use as a description can illustrate an image in which readers can envision as they read. It can even portray a specific message or theme that the writer has in mind! On that note, authors such as John Steinbeck utilize this method in stories to establish a contrast or change within the plot. In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the author begins chapter one in the hot afternoon, introducing us to George and Lennie, who are looking for a fresh start-which they are not looking for when
These words are used effectively as they appeal to the five senses and allow the reader to picture exactly what that story looked like then and when it had just been written. By using descriptive words that paint an image, King uses imagery to allow the reader to relate to him more and understand what he saw and how he must have felt at the time.
What complications and new characters have been introduced in Section 2? (5-10 complete sentences) “The Sniper” has gotten much more interesting; many more characters have been introduced and the plot has progressed. Tania has been recruited as a sniper by the general, and begins training with Lieutenant Zaitsev. Important supporting characters Tania trains and bonds with are: Tolya (a bushy eyebrowed boy with kind blue eyes) and Lena (a Jewish girl separated from her family).
Y: the last man is a science fiction comic book by Brian K. Vaughan. This book tells us about the only man that survive the simultaneous death of all other male on earth, except his pet Ampersaud. All Y chromosome living mammals die, but no one knows that only man and his monkey are alive. The question arise, how would the world come about without males? Would it be better, or will women need males?
In the story 13 and a Half, the technique description is used in the story to support the theme. One example is when Ashley finds her bird dead, the author uses the description at this moment to help carry out the theme of this story. In the story, it states, “I got there as she began screaming, and saw a dead bird, lying on its side in the bottom of the cage” (Page 2, Rachel Vail)
