...Setting and its Conflicts Settings create conflicts in the real world and in books. In the stories “The Sniper” a short story by Liam O’Flaherty and “The Most Dangerous Game” a short story by Richard Connell the settings create conflict for the characters. “The Sniper” takes place in Dublin, Ireland during a civil war. The main character, a Republican sniper, encounters a sniper who is a Free Stater who traps him on a rooftop. “The Most Dangerous Game” takes place on an island in the Caribbean called Ship-Trap Island. The main character is Sanger Rainsford a hunter, when he falls off his ship he swims to Ship-Trap Island. There he meets General Zaroff a hunter who takes the game way too far. Rainsford finds out that the General hunts humans in the island and that he will be the next to be hunted. In both short stories, the setting creates conflicts for the characters throughout the story. In “The Sniper” the setting creates many conflicts throughout the story. One is when...
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...“The Most Dangerous Game” is a great short story of two hunters meeting and one of the characters becoming the prey of the other hunter. Rainsford never gave up and faced his fear after he was hunted as prey by another hunter. The general, which was the other hunter in the story informed Rainsford he was never defeated at his game. Rainsford developed plans after plans to succeed his victory. The character chosen in this story is Sanger Rainsford is a very keen, optimistic, fearless character. Sanger Rainsford is a very optimistic character because he fell off a yacht during the dark tropical night and swim ashore to “Ship-Trap Island.” He was just discussing the superstitious island with a shipmate before had heard a noise and accidently...
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...are filled with so much imagination. The story “The Most Dangerous Game, Sanger Rainsford, the main character is quite disturbing as a person because of the comments made throughout the story. The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s. It is considered to be the paradigm example for the man vs. man plot archetype. On the other hand in the story “The Destructors”, the main character, Trevor has conflicting feelings and actions so trying to figure out who he really is, is confusing. Fiction Essay Sanger Rainsford is a professional hunter and he and a colleague went on an excursion to Rio to hunt Jacquards. During their boat ride along the Caribbean Sea, his colleague Whitney mention they were passing by a mysterious island- called Ship-Trap Island. Instantly, Sanger became very interested in the island and wanted to know where there cannibals living on the island. That seem quite odd coming from a professional animal hunter. He even went as far as trying to see the island thru the night fog. The narrator seem to be a little creepy at this point because the tone changed as if he was not scared or even uptight about the island as the boat crew was. Sanger classified the world into two classes: the hunter and the hunted. During the night, his curiosity got the best of him. He heard shots coming from the island and knowing that he could not see he still attempting to figure out where...
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...General Zaroff’s Ship Trap Island Game When Sanger Rainsford had to choose between the game or getting beat to death was a very hard decision and also the most scariest. After he picked the game, there were a few thing that helped him survive. One is that he did the Malay Mancatcher, that he learned in Malacca. The Burmese tiger pit gave him more chance of surviving the game. The last but not least is the way he could swim long distances. The Malay Mancatcher gave him more time to think about what he was going to do with General Zaroff. The Malay Mancatcher was one of the ideas that gave him more chance of surviving in Ship-Trap Island. “Rainsford,” called the general, “ if you are within sound of my voice, as I suppose you are, let me congratulate you. Not many men know how to make a Malay mancatcher. Luckily for me I, too, have hunted in Malacca. You are proving interesting, Mr. Rainsford. I am going to have my wound dressed; it only a slight one. But I shall be back. I shall be back.” (Connell 26). This gives Rainsford more time to think about a way to get out of the island. He is also showing that he is capable of winning the game and that he is a good competition. As well as the Malay mancatcher, the Burmese tiger pit helped Rainsford win the game....
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...vs. Young Goodman Brown In two of the most well-known short stories, “The Most Dangerous Game” and “Young Goodman Brown”, there are ironic similarities portraying evil between their settings, characterization, and plot. I. There happen to be different settings in both of the short stories but both of the settings adapt well with their plots. a. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” the setting takes place in the early 1920’s after the First World War on a small tropical island somewhere in the Caribbean, known as Ship-Trap Island by the sailors. b. Whereas, in the short story, “Young Goodman Brown” the story is set in the late seventeenth century in Salem, a small town northeast of Boston in Massachusetts around the time of the Salem witch trials. II. The characters in both of these short stories have close similarities to each other as they both demonstrate good and evil traits, which help the plot flow. a. The main characters in “The Most Dangerous Game” are Sanger Rainsford, General Zaroff, Whitney, and Ivan. b. The main characters in the story “Young Goodman Brown” are Goodman Brown, Faith, The Old Man/Devil Figure, The Minister, Goody Cloyse, and Deakon Gookin. III. The plot of the short stories, although they are different, both exhibit evil conflicts that develop throughout the story. a. The plot in “The Most Dangerous Game” is about hunting. b. In the plot of “Young Goodman Brown” Goodman Brown has to leave one night but his wife said she would...
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...General Zaroff’s Ship Trap Island General Zaroff was a very wealthy Cossack man, who was able to secure his money he inherited from his father through investment. He was forced out of his country after the fall of their government. Zaroff believed he was meant to be a hunter, because that is what he had done his entire life. The general killed animals at a very young age, fought in the military, and he even went all across the world hunting some of the most amazing game. Even though he had conquered many types of game that was not enough for him anymore. His life had become one big hunt and he needed to satisfy this thirst for the most dangerous game of all time. General Zaroff grew bored with hunting eventually because he was so good at it and always got his game. He needed a game with instinct and an animal just would not do anymore. General Zaroff finally new what game he wanted as his ultimate hunt. He needed to find a place where he could be free to engage in this twisted desire to hunt this dangerous...
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...relationship of hunter and the hunted. The story is about Sanger Rainsford, a very experienced hunter that was on his way to the deep Amazon to hunt jaguars with his companion Whitney before he had fallen off of a yacht. This will forever change his outlook on life and force him to do things he would never have done. Rainsford has no empathy for animals and thinks they feel no fear while being hunted. This is shown in his conversation with Whitney. This same conversation is foreshadowing the events that will follow. Connell starts off the story with an eeriness mood talking about...
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...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 stories reveal that human can be very cruel. “The Lottery” takes place in a village during the summer morning on June 27th...
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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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...of literature. This story is about a world renowned hunter, Sanger Rainsford, who is sailing to Brazil to hunt jaguars. As his ship passes Ship Trap Island, he accidently falls overboard and manages to swims ashore. There he discovers a mansion occupied by a Russian Cossack General Zaroff and his deaf mute servant Ivan. The General, an excellent hunter himself, has become bored of hunting animals so he lures ships to his island and captures and hunts the sailors for his entertainment. When Rainsford refuses to join in hunting other humans, he becomes one of the hunted. He is given three days to try to elude capture from the General, Ivan, and his hounds. After the three days have passed and he has outsmarted the General and avoided being captured, the general honors him and presumably lets him go. First, the author discreetly displays his prejudice views, by establishing the main characters as white men, wealthy, fit, and healthy. This subtly discriminates against anyone not white, wealthy, or able-bodied. Next he sets both evil characters, Ivan and General Zaroff, as Russians, the author speaks this out when after Rainsford asks the General of Ivan’s nationality he responds, "He is a Cossack, said the general, and his smile showed red lips and pointed teeth. So am I." by portraying them as such he shows bias against Russians. Next the author depicts the bias that a predator has toward its prey. Both Rainsford and the general are predatory men who are found to display no...
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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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...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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...Hunter versus the Hunted Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” and Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow” are fictional short stories that share a common theme of the hunter versus the hunted. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Sanger Rainsford, an avid big game hunter, finds himself trapped on an unforgiving hideaway known as Ship-Trap Island. Meanwhile, in “Hunters in the Snow” a group of young men venture into the wilderness for the thrill of killing a wild animal. In both stories, the protagonists are portrayed as the hunted, as the hunters, and finally, as the victors. Rainsford has seen war, had numerous near death experiences with wild animals and continues to engage in the sport for the love of hunting. He and his shipmates are off to...
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...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 him to save himself he swims to the Island in hope to find someone since he heard gunshots from that direction. Once he reaches the island he passes out because of the long swim, the next morning he begins to look for help as he is walking he finds blood and a gun shell casing, so he continues to travel until he comes across a chateau with an iron gate. Rainsford knocks on the door, and...
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...Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment. B. In the short stories, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell and The Destructors by Graham Greene, we will look at the similarities and differences in the characterization element of fiction as they relate to the crimes committed in the stories. II. Body A. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell 1. Characters 2. Qualities and Motivations B. The Destructors by Graham Greene 1. Characters 2. Qualities and Motivations C. Comparisons of the Short Stories 1. The Most Dangerous Game crime 2. The Destructors crime III. Conclusion A. In the end of these two stories, “justice” was served. B. As the protagonists of the short stories, Rainsford and Trevor succeeded in “punishing” General Zaroff and Mr. Thomas for the crimes they committed while they in turn committed crimes themselves. Crime and Punishment “What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be." Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment. When a crime is committed usually punishment is to follow, whether it is a minor punishment or a severe one. As the quote above states, we make our own rules according to the boundaries we’ve set for ourselves to follow as it relates to what we consider is a crime. This should not be since we have laws to define what is or in not...
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