...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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...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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...In the short story The Most Dangerous Game, Written by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford is being hunted by General Zaroff. In the end of the story he wins the game by killing Zaroff. But how did he win. Sanger Rainsford succeeded at the game because he is great at making traps, he is very fit, and he is an amazing hunter. His first skill is in trap making. And his first trap is the malay mancatcher, then there is the burmese tiger pit, and finally the uganda knife trap. These traps are very dangerous. The first on injured General Zaroff’s shoulder and after he said, “If you are within the sound of my voice, as I suppose you are, let me congratulate you. Not many men can make a malay mancatcher”(Connell 26). All of the traps helped...
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...“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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...Richard Connell wrote a short story named “The Most Dangerous Game” and skillfully controls the elements of it is what makes this story the interesting and exciting piece that it is. The exposition of the story is the first part of the carefully planned out sequence Connell has laid out. The climax is the most intriguing part of the story and really gets the reader excited. The resolution of the story is Connell’s strongest point and wraps up all the events. The way Richard Connell put the exposition, climax, and resolution together in the story makes it such an eventful, exciting, and lesson-learning experience. The beginning of the story (the exposition) begins with Rainsford having a conversation with his friend Whitney. Rainsford says to Whitney ““Don’t talk rot, you’re a big game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares about how a jaguar feels?”” Then Whitney retorts with ““Perhaps the jaguar does.”” (Pg 60). The dialog in the start of the story is the dramatic effect that draws in the reader. The writing of the exposition, climax, and resolution in this story is truly fascinating and makes it extremely enjoyable to read....
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...Irony, Conflict and Theme in “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Destructors” English 102 Composition and Literature Spring 2016-D15 LUO Belinda Joseph–L27213212 APA Thesis Statement and Outline “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Destructors” Thesis Statement: Connell and Greene reveal with the use of irony, conflict and theme, mankind’s human nature, exposing man’s most primal instincts and desires through their characters. I. Irony A. The hunter becomes the hunted. 1. In a conversation about Jaguar hunting with Whitney, Rainsford exclaims, “You’re are a big game hunter, not a philosopher, who cares how a jaguar feels?" (Connell, 1924, p.1). 2. Rainsford is in the place of the prey and Zaroff has the advantage. “It was Rainsford who knew the full meaning of terror”. (Connell, 1924, p.11). 3. Roles reverse and Rainsford kills him in the end. “He had never slept in a better bed”. (Connell, 1924, p.13). B. Unexpected behavior. 4. Trevor the son of an architect becoming a gang leader. (Greene, 1954, p. 1). 5. Moral about Old misery’s money “We aren’t thieves....Nobody is going to steal anything from this house.” (Greene, 1954, p. 6). 6. Food and a blanket is taken to Old Misery “We don’t want you to starve Mr. Thomas” (Greene, 1954, p. 10). II. Conflict C. Rainsford struggle with “Man vs. Self” 7. Rainsford’s survival to stay alive. 8. Rainsford’s wits and state of mind...
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...Most short stories have just one or two types of conflict. However, in Richard Connell’s, The Most Dangerous Game, this short story has all three types of conflict. The most common type of conflict in a story, man against man, has General Zaroff hunting Rainsford, and Rainsford fighting for his life. For man against nature, Rainsford battles through all the burdensome obstacles on and around Ship-Trap Island. The last, but not least arduous, conflict is man against himself. Rainsford struggles to keep sane while General Zaroff hunts him. The type of conflict, man against man, may be the most popular type of conflict to be in a story. General Zaroff seeks pleasure in hunting humans, and Rainsford is his prey. “Rainsford’s impulse was to hurl...
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...The “Most Dangerous Game” was written in 1924 by Richard Connell. In the beginning, after Rainsford falls off his ship and winds up on an ominous island, he meets the affable General Zaroff. At first, Zaroff appears to a very affable person, although Rainsford soon finds out that Zaroff is actually sadistic. To clarify, Rainsford discovers that Zaroff takes joy out of hunting humans for sport. With this in mind, Zaroff spurs on an interesting game of cat and mouse with Rainsford. Symbols, foreshadows, and allusions create suspense for the reader while reading the story. These literary devices all help move the story forward as well as keep the reader on edge. Throughout the story Connell uses symbols to keep readers interested. For example,...
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...and animals to hang on your wall, isn’t ok. Rainsford, a talented hunter, is on his boat towards Ship-Trap Island. One important lesson readers can learn from Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” is nature brings you into bad situations. First of all, Sanger Rainsford fell off of the boat due to the mighty waves rocking the boat. (Connell 5) This scene shows how events develop the theme since he fell off, he had to fight the sea to make it ashore. (Connell 5) The author uses revealing actions. He shows it when Rainsford fell off of the boat. “His pipe hit a rope and was knocked from his mouth. He reached out for it. A short cry came from his lips as he realized he had reached too far and lost his balance.” (Connell 5) This example shows that not paying attention to nature's warnings makes the situation worse when Rainsford fell off the boat.In conclusion, the author uses revealing actions in the story to show readers about nature can bring you into bad situations....
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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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...PEOPLE AREN’T WHO YOU BELIEVE THEM TO BE AN ESSAY OF COMPARISION “THE CHILD BY TIGER AND THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME RICHARD CONNELL AND THOMAS WOLFE AUTHORS BRUCE ALLMAN ENGLISH COMPOSITION AND LITERATURE When I read both these short stories , my initial thought was that these have Little in common. Wolfe’s story “Child by Tiger ‘ takes place in the early 20th Century , and so does Connell’s but the places where they are set are very different. Connell’s has an exotic locale and Wolfe’s in the backwoods of the United States Of America. Both stories contain manhunts complete with motivations for the hunts could not be more opposite . In “The Most Dangerous Game “ General Zaroff , the antagonist resorts to hunting humans for sport . He made this clear to the protagonist Rainsford when he said , “Hunting tigers ceased To interest me some years ago.” I have exhausted their possibilities. “No thrill left in tigers , no real threat , no real danger I live for danger “! “ He becomes an expert hunter and decides to hunt a more elevated quarry, one that can reason .. Humans. Hungering...
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...The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell shows readers how unethical hunting is. The human condition makes a reader think very carefully about the ethics of everything not just hunting.These ethics make someone question everything that they do.In relation to the human condiion of morals and ethics “The Most Dangerous Game” is in many ways a moral taboo.Throughout the story the many literary elements help make the human condition even more evident along with the literary criticism from outside sources.The human condition is demostrated on many levels ,but all boils down to does the way things are percieved change how you view them. One of the most common literary devices in this story is conflict. The one that most reflects on ethics of...
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...Yu, Bo-bae Language Arts: Cochran The Most Dangerous Game CER How is the Ending of the “The Most Dangerous Game” ironic? Richard Connell’s suspenseful short story “The Most Dangerous Game” ends with an ironic twist due to the fact that the main character, Sanger Rainsford, gets to experience the feelings of fear the huntee goes through that he thought was just instinct. After Rainsford’s first encounter with General Zaroff, he realizes that he is being hunted down and he thinks, “The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the true meaning of terror” (Connell 12). Before, Rainsford did not believe that the hunted had any feelings or reason, but after he was the one being hunted for a change, he is proven wrong...
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...London’s “To Build A Fire” and Richard Connell’s, “The Most Dangerous Game”. The comparisons will be constructed of the settings, characters, and conflict. First topic to be compared is conflict. The two stories share two conflicts, a struggle for survival. In Jack London’s “To Build A Fire” the main character, not named, thinks in his head, “Without doubt he would lose some fingers and toes and some of his face…” (London 703). In the same manner, the main character, named Rainsford, kills a dog and the “bad guy” says to him “… I’ll see what you can do against my whole pack” (Connell 28). However, the two stories differ in what they struggle against. In “To Build A Fire” the conflict is person versus nature. For example the guy builds a fire and from the spruce tree falls some snow and puts out the fire; to quote “He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree” (London 700). Meanwhile, in “The Most Dangerous Game” the conflict is person versus person which is Rainsford being hunted down by General Zaroff-the “bad guy”- in the middle of a baron island. To quote from General Zaroff “Your strength and stamina against mine” (Connell 24). Secondly, literary item number two is setting. In both stories the setting is set in isolated places. Like in “To Build A Fire” its set in the Yukon in the middle of winter. To validate that “The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice” (London 694). Also in “The Most Dangerous Game” the setting is in the Caribbean on an...
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...between them ,until one or more men from the stories dies by the other,or both dies. In Richard Connell’s short story,”The Most Dangerous Game,” and Saki’s short story,” The Interlopers,” the main characters, General Zaroff and Ulrich Von Gradwitz are alike in the following ways: Both men hunted on their land,both men haunted humans, and both men had a struggle to survive and outlive the other. The main characters hunted the humans on their own land in both stories. Zaroff and Ulrich both had their own land,so they took their enemies to their land. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Zaroff knew he owned the land ,but Rainsford, the man he hunts, never knew. Zaroff owned an island and he hunted humans including Rainsford in the island. On the other hand, in “The Intruders,” George trespases onto Ulrich’s land, while they were hunting each other....
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