...Adrienne Wesley Fiction Essay 201420 Spring 2014 ENG 102 D44 LUO April 6, 2014 Nathan Valle, professor Thesis Statement: The Lottery and The Most Dangerous Game are stories that demonstrate man’s fascination with evil and how they delight in the destruction of human life I. The setting of The Lottery paints the picture of a civilized society. A. The story takes place in June B. The village has places representative of civilization a. A bank b. Schools c. Post office II. The Mood of the story is light and provides no insight to the tragedy about to unfold A. The people act as if the lottery is a time of joy B. There is no evidence of the stoning C. The villagers seem light hearted and jovial D. They make jokes as they assemble for the lottery III. The Characters are influenced by their setting A. The lottery is a tradition B. People participate in the lottery just because it is a tradition C. No one opposes the lottery, all are willing participants D. Other villages have stopped the tradition E. Setting makes story outcome unbelievable IV. The Most Dangerous Game takes place in a jungle on an island and General Zaroff’s home A. Ship-Trap Island , an island known for its reputation B. The Island seems civilized C. Different from The Lottery because the reader believes there could be danger D. Setting gives the reader a false sense of security a. Basic needs (food...
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...! “The Most Dangerous Game”: Discovering the Definition of Humanity Society defines a human to be a civilized being: having appropriate clothing, manners, and many other things that the Europeans thought were necessary for a cultivated person. Everybody else that didn’t fit the description was a savage or someone treated as a dog. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell, Rainsford, a well educated and experienced hunter, falls off his yacht and swims to an island where a man hunts people for sport. Through the use of imagery, irony, and suspense, Connell explores the idea that being humane is more than just having civilized behavior. Imagery allows the reader to get a feel what Rainsford went through while on the evil feeling island. At first the general appears to be a very civilized and dignified man with items such as “a gold cigarette case and.... a long black cigarette with a silver tip; it was perfumed and gave off a smell like incense”(Connell 25). Rainsford is tricked by the material items up until the point where Zaroff suggests the hunting of humans as a sport. The General believes that having the the cigarettes and nice house makes it ok to murder other humans. Zaroff also believes the setting he lives in and the items he uses justifies the murder of hundreds of people. His dining room “suggested a baronial hall of feudal times with it oaken panels, its high ceiling, its vast refectory tables where two score men could sit down to eat...the table appointments...
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...Readers are intrigued by danger, suspense and the thrill of a story. In “ The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell the short story proves danger, suspense and thrill add to a story. General Zaroff, character of the famous short story, is a Russian Cossack and expatriate who lives on Ship-Trap Island and enjoys hunting men. Unfortunately, Sanger Rainsford, the main character is getting hunted by General; this is the main conflict. General Zaroff is an aggressive, uncivilized and confident man, Richard Connell proves he is the antagonist of this short narrative. “The Most Dangerous Game” proves General Zaroff is an aggressive individual an example of this proves in the short story: “ When I shot some of his prized turkeys with it, he did not punish me; he complimented me on my marksmanship. I killed my first bear in the...
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...What I admire about Mr. Sanger Rainsford is that he is a smart and quick witted man. I think he is smart because he sets all these booby traps for Ivan and Zaroff, something other people may not do. I think he is quick witted 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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...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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...Rainsford was on a boat and then he fell off the boat into the Caribbean Sea. He tried to catch back up to the boat, but the boat was going to fast. He was in big trouble, so he had to swim to the Ship Trap Island where he could find shelter, because he was very tired and hungry. In this short story, " The Most Dangerous Game," the big game hunter Sanger Rainsford is tested in these following ways : the strong versus the weak, the value of life, and becoming what he fears. So in this next paragraph, he is gonna find out what his strings and weaks are. At this point in time he is getting scared, because he keeps hearing weird noises in the woods. While he was walking in the woods he came upon this house. So he walked up to the house and...
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...who walked up to me. Most people were nice and said hi and asked how I was doing, but there was one man who was very polite and started up and actual conversation with me. He was very nice but when he started to talk to some of the other guests, I walked away a few feet and stood to myself. I was close enough to hear their conversation and the very polite and nice man was talking and a news story of a man who was convicted of murder, he was saying how he would have done the same thing in reference to the murderer. Once he said that everyone that he was talking with made an excuse to...
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...The Vital Setting For “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” has an essential setting for the plot of the story. For instance, General Zaroff has no worry about his prey escaping the island because of the water surrounding the island with nowhere to swim. Without the hazardous rocks surrounding the island with also no land to be seen looking off it Zaroff would be driven to worry about his prey escaping. The water also does not allow people to leave the island because it is in the middle of nowhere. While hunting Rainsford realizes, “He was in a picture with a frame of water, and his operations, clearly, must take place within that frame” (11). The never ending water around the island ensures...
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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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...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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...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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...Desperate times call for desperate measures. When your life is on the line, people do the most reckless things. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, a short story by Richard Connell, a man named Zaroff kidnapped people and would hunt them. Even though these people might have been more docile, they would put up a fight in fear of being killed. This fear drives them to do extremely uncivilized things.“The Most Dangerous Game” portrays how civilized people will turn uncivilized if their life depends on it. One example of of people becoming uncivilized is strength that was not had before and aggression. On line 240, the narrative says, “‘Hurled me against a tree,ʼ said the general. ‘Fractured my skull. But I got the brute.ʼ” This shows that out of fear,...
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...Fiction Essay ENGL 102 Composition and Literature APA Abstract Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” and Thomas Wolfe’s “The Child by Tiger” have many similarities in the stories. Two men face conflict of good and evil, but in different perspectives because the two types of literature are wrote differently. “The Most Dangerous Game” is escape literature; it’s adventurous and unrealistic, written for pleasure, while “The Child by Tiger” is interpretive literature it teaches about the world around us and helps one understand deeper issues. In both stories, the characters show different sides to themselves they show their good side and fool people thinking they are someone they are not and eventually show their evil side. Fiction Essay In both “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Child by Tiger” both men are portrayed very civilized and kind, but both authors show how people can change in an instance and become murderers. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Sanger Rainsford is the story protagonist he is an intelligent renowned hunter who believes the world consist of only predators and pray. As he is traveling on a yacht for Rio de Janeiro with a friend named Whitney she points out a mysterious island that people named Ship-Trap Island. Whitney becomes tired and wants to go bed, but Rainsford stays ups to have another smoke. While he is up, he hears gunshots in the direction of the island. Rainsford leans to far over and falls overboard, he calls for help no one hears...
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...Abstract Rainsford in “The Most Dangerous Game” by Connell, 2014, and T from “The Destructors” Greene, 2014, feel the need to morally adjust their beliefs for a greater purpose. Connell and Greene, showed that when a person is faced to live with an outcome of a situation, it can shake and alter a person’s principles. The key points that the authors reveal in their work is for Rainsford; although he was in disbelief and shocked at the game General Zaroff created, he felt that he was forced to create a plan that would save him from defeat in “The Most Dangerous Game”. T on the other hand felt that Old Misery’s home should not survive in representation of defeat of the bombs that sent so many families from his town underground into the subways and that had lost so much (Greene, 2014). The influences of life and circumstances may alter a person’s belief and decisions for a greater purpose in life for themselves and others. Keywords: beliefs, morals, principles, adjustments Do individual’s moral standards and boundaries alter according to the severity of a situation or their own interpretation of a situation? Rainsford in Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” and Trevor (also known as T) in Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” are faced to question their morals. This relates to Rainsford’s act on the need for survival and T’s belief that the right thing to do for everyone is to demolish what was left from the bombs that attacked their town. Conflict Compare...
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...of Road Rage. They describe four major traffic situations that trigger road rage: (1) feeling endangered, such as being cut off, (2) being closed in by other drivers who are going slow, (3) watching other drivers breaking the rules of the road and (4) feeling the need to retaliate. Also, if a driver gets in the vehicle already angry due to a prior incident, that anger can trigger even greater Road Rage responses. Angry drivers on the road merit great attention. Road Rage causes health problems. Driving under stress is a serious health risk. Does your blood boil when you’re cruising along the highway and some slowpoke is driving in the passing lane? With everyone over worked and having less free time, stress plays a key role. Most people do not have a lot of patience for others when under stress. Road Rage causes muscle tension and your blood pressure to rise. Elevated blood pressure can lead to such conditions as heart attacks and immune system complications. If a driver is tempted to act out her road rage, she could try to count to ten or listen to her favorite music to become calmer. Never over react to an annoying driving incident. It’s much...
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