The Island In Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game

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Richard Connell’s setting for his modernist story “The Most Dangerous Game” provokes the reader to question the mystery of the island and the people who inhabit the island. Richard Connell starts the story by saying the large island is “rather a mystery”.(line 3) following that up with the island being called “Ship-Trap Island”.( line 5-6) leaving the reader curious and wondering why it has such a “suggestive” name. (line 6) Later the reader meets General Zaroff and, Rainsford noted his face having a “ bizarre quality” as well as “pointed teeth.” the reader also finds out that General Zaroff and the others leaving with hem are Cossack. This is weird cause there is no reason for these Russians to be in the Caribbean ten years after world war