...Thesis statement: Outline: I. Compare the murder of innocent people A. The Lottery, Tessie dies for picking the marked paper. 1. Killed by a stoning of her peers B. The Most Dangerous Game, Zaroff dies playing a game. 1. Zaroff was the hunter ended up dying as the hunted. II. Contrast why they were murdered. A. The Lottery, Tessie was murdered so town can reap a reward. 1. The instinct of survival makes people very violence. B. The Most Dangerous Game, Zaroff died because he wanted to have fun. 1. Rainsford has turned into the same person as Zaroff. “The Lottery," written by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game," written by Richard Connell, share a common theme of violence and cruelty. In “The Most Dangerous Game” humans are hunted, as if they were animals, to satisfy an unquenchable desire for a challenge. In “The Lottery” the people of a little town is forced to participate in a ritual that will unexpectedly take the life of an unwilling participant to comply with a story that if they sacrifice of one of their own, then the residents of that little town will be guaranteed a bountiful harvest. By comparison, these two stories show us just how selfish we as people can be. Both of these stories contain violence, and murder and show that humans are selfish. “The Lottery," takes place in a small town where the traditions of sacrificing a person for their fruitful harvests are kept. Tessie is a woman who selects the marked lottery...
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...authors portrayed this dark and dreary idea as a game the characters are playing. Outline: “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson vs. “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell I. Introduction: a. Traditional acts and survival instincts is the key to win or lose the game of death b. Will one allow society or your own reasoning decided if one survives the game of death c. The battle of death is the game that no one knows the result of until the end II. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson a. Jackson portrayed death as a fun family oriented game b. All people of the village, children, men and women gather on a beautiful summer day to stone one innocent person as a tradition c. The bystander effect plays a role in the death of the villagers d. The villager loses the battle of death because society blindly practices traditions, good and bad, unquestionably III. “The Most Dangerous Game” a. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Connell portrayed death as a Hunter’s game. b. The General is the hunter and Rainsford is the Prey. Man vs. Man c. The game of death is put to the test for three days d. Man wins he battle against death using animal instinct and human reasoning IV. Conclusion e. “In the Lottery” the villager lost her battle of death due to others but in “In The Most Dangerous Game” the hunter won his battle of death based on his own survival skills f. The dark and dreary game of death is a battle that one has to choose to...
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...“The Hunters in the Snow “ and “The Most Dangerous Game” are two stories that are put together and have cub substantial interpretations. “The Hunters in the Snow,” is a well rounded story that represents literary fiction because it provoked the readers intimate judgement and reasoning. “The Most Dangerous Game,” in my opinion relates more to commercial fiction because it demonstrates an objection to the reader in contrast to the message of the story. There was also a major difference in the two stories. “The Hunters in the Snow,” directs assistance on the different streams of three men attempting to hunt for a deer in the cold weather. Additionally the characters in the first story are not well explained as in the second one. Although the...
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...“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 island...
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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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...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 Most Dangerous Game” and “The Interlopers”, are short stories that are suspenseful, as well as breathtaking. The setting in both of these stories impact the plot by adding conflict and excitement. Both stories have a setting that tests their mental and physical strength. However, the setting in both are so different it leaves the ending unpredictable. In the two stories that we read both of their settings caused conflict. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, they talk about how tropical and vibrant the rainforest is, “The vegetation grew ranker, denser, insects bit him savagely. Then as he stepped forward his foot sank into the ooze.” The complex setting cause Mr. Rainsford to have greater challenges, as he had to fight against the animals, the vegetation, and more, while still trying not to get hunted. On the other hand, in “The Interlopers” one monumental thing happened to the setting that changed the entire tone of the story, “A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads and eve they could leap aside a mass of...
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...is about the hunter and the hunted but later in the story it becomes ironic because it turns into a game were the hunter becomes the hunted. It turns into a chase of competition and of survival. Two sailors Rainsford and his partner Whitney sailed in to the darkness of the of sea. Their purpose was to hunt, they called it the " greatest sport". They were hunters and headed to the Amazon to hunt vicious animals such as Jaguars, and tigers. They sailed to an island called "Ship-Trap Island". Sailors feared this island and had curious dread of such a scarry place. The sky was filled with darkness when suddently he heard Three gun shots that were fired, and heard them again and again. Then he heard a scream while smoking a pipe when suddently the pipe fell and as he tried to reach for it he whent down into the sea were the waves swallowed his screams. Nobody could have heard him as the ocean swallowed his screams and the only chance of survival was to swim. Rainsford swam towards the screams and ended up in the Island. He walked on the shoreline and later found a place that looked like a mansion. There he met General Zaroff who bought the island to hunt. He was indeed a sporstman who invented a new sensation of the hunting game. His game was to train those men who's ships were wrecked and ended up in that island, and then provide them with food and a knife for three days. Once they were trained they were led out into the island as a head start while Zaroff chase after them and...
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...Most Dangerous Game In the story “Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Rainsford the main character is trapped on an island with a crazy hunter who was bored with hunting found a way to spice things he hunt people. Many parts in the story make people think about why he would do such a thing hunt people. When General Zaroff explains his game of hunting to Rainsford it is obvious that to hunt people is wrong. One thing in the story is hard to answer it is when Rainsford talks to his friend. It is when Rainsford classifies the world into two categories the hunters and the hunties. The story says “My hand were made for the trigger…”(pg 223 Connell) and for the hunters that is how they feel but, that is how the people in the world feel...
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...again? Hunting for Rainsford is like eating, it’s a necessity. Rainsford will need to kill game again, not only for his survival, but it’s like second nature to him. Rainsford may not pursue animals for enjoyment as he once did, but he will do it again, also survival is key to the lonely island, he may have been influenced from winning to continue this game, and he has based his whole life upon hunting so it’ll be a hard habit to quit. On the first note, Rainsford will hunt again because winning may affect his ego. At the end of the game “[Rainsford] had never slept in a better bed” due to the end decision of who becomes dog food and who sleeps in the winners bed, and of course this was decided by Rainsford (Connell 36). Therefore, Rainsford had shown that he beat the best, and because Zaroff unestimated someone else due to his experience and was outsmarted. Rainsford beat Zaroff, and had “won the game” (Connell 36). In hindsight, winning can possibly...
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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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...1. The dangerous obstacles that people face in life can reveal their true personalities.2. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, written by Richard Connell, the protagonist’s true personality shows. 3. Rainsford, the protagonist shows that he’s an intelligent, tough, and observant character that faces many obstacles in this short story. 4. In this short story Rainsford’s main characteristics shined, and one of his best characteristics is that he is intelligent. 5. The Quote, “Swam……. I found it quicker than walking,” (Connell 112) helps shows Rainsford’s intelligent. 6. The quote helps show that Rainsford was in a tough position, being hunted on the island, but he thought through his plans of survival. 7. Rainsford shows his intelligent by using the resources available to him. 8. The quote, “I’ll give him a trail to follow,” (Connell 107) shows how Rainsford is trying to lead Zaroff away from his trail. 9. The quote also helps show that Rainsford is wise about his choices on the island. 10. Rainsford’s intelligent shows as he decides to try and use the island to benefit him instead of harming him. 11. Rainsford’s intelligent really shines through in this short story....
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...stories that have happened to these survivors. During "My Escape From North Korea," Hyeonseo Lee describes how she became free from her home, in "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell describes how Rainsford survived being hunted by Zaroff, and in "Trapped," Aron Ralston describes how he survived being trapped for six days and amputating his arm. All of these people went through very tough experiences but in the end they all got away. Many people died doing the same things as Hyeonseo Lee during that same time but she survived, many others also died from being hunted by Zaroff but Rainsford survived, and...
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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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...Rivera 1 Marcos G. Rivera Prof. Lauren Lund English 102 14 July 2013 Comparison and Contrast of “The Child by Tiger” and “The Most Dangerous Game” The short story “The Child by Tiger” by Thomas Wolfe is a about a religious, talented Negro named Dick Prosser who served in the army and is the servant of a middle class family in the south. This story takes a shocking turn when Dick goes on a killing spree throughout the town and a mob finally reaches him and kills him with no remorse. In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, Sanger Rainsford falls off of a yacht that was heading towards the Amazon for a hunting trip. He swims to an island where he finds himself being the hunted by General Zaroff an aristocrat who had dominated the sport of hunting to the point that he became so bored, he purchased the island to specifically hunt men. None of these men survived his game. That is until Rainsford has no choice but to also participate in this game. At some point of each story, the animalistic act of man hunting man is witnessed. In “The Child by Tiger” Wolfe demonstrates that no matter how strong a person may be mentally, a human will sooner or later have a breaking point. The author in this story may also be trying to make the reader understand how society or environment a person is surrounded by may sometimes lead an individual to commit such horrendous acts of violence. Dick Prosser is seen as a gentle person who suddenly goes through a rampage...
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