...“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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...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 for the excitement he lives for , he hunts and hunts until he is Defeated...
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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...Three characters from literature have something in common and most unusual in their storybook lives. Charles, General Zaroff, and Bill and Sam have had exotic encounters that relate to one another. They all have done things that are atrocious and unusual. In Shirley Jackson’s “Life Among the Savages,” Charles is a raucous tyke who disrupts his fellow classmates. On the playground across the swing by the slide, Charles bounces a seesaw on a tyke’s head and makes her bleed. Bouncing seesaws, he was spanked like usual. Charles parents are mildly disturbed about their son. But they do not interfere at all. Charles who abuses his peers stays out of serious trouble. Charles appears evil but is not. In the future, Charles will become a...
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...against one another in both stories. They were guess 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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...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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...As a hunter stalks its prey, it has no fear, and it feels the strongest of animals. It feels as if nothing can hurt it. The hunter will always perceive itself as strongest, but that is not always the case. In Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game", big game hunter, Sanger Reinsford, discovers he has three challenging lessons ahead: strong versus the weak, the value of life, and becoming what he fears. Each challenge will test his will to survive while he holds to his moral beliefs. First Reinsford must endure the challenge of strong versus the weak. He is like weak prey against a strong, knowledgeable predator. Reinsford is weak both mentally and physically due to being unfamiliar with the terrain, and he had to run a great...
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...In the short story by Richard Connell's The Dangerous Game, the conflict that is most crucial in this story is man versus man. Sanger Rainsford is being hunted down by a man killer named General Zaroff. The General says that hunting regular prey is too easy, so know he hunts humans. He made up a invisible channel so sailors would crash their boats, then he would kill them. Sanger Rainsford creates traps so he can escape the great General Zaroff. General Zaroff lives on a giant mansion in the middle of the Caribbean sea, which is very unusual. What is the major conflict in the story? The way that man vs man is being shown is that Rainsford has to play the game that General Zaroff has made. The story states that Rainsford gets a small, but...
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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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...People use literary devices in their everyday conversations whether they notice it or not. Sometimes people will exaggerate, compare their situations to something else, or hint towards something. For example if someone wanted a necklace for their birthday they might talk about how their neck feels empty and how they love necklaces, so their friends could take a hint. Similarly, authors use literary devices in writing to convey the same thing. A couple examples of literary devices are hyperbole, simile, and foreshadowing. Richard Connell uses literary devices such as irony, foreshadowing, and imagery in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” to add an effective message. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the author, Richard...
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...Imagine a carnivore stranded alone in an uninhabited, fruit abundant island, void of animals. In order to survive the carnivore must adopt a herbivores diet. Much like the carnivore, Sanger Rainsford, the main character in Richard Connell's Most Dangerous Game, experience is a change in character after surviving a life-threatening situation. Rainsford is a hunter who is forced to participate in a manhunt, as the prey, undergoes a change in character. At the beginning of the story, Rainsford shows no sympathy for the animals. In the story, when he says, "you're a big game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares have a jaguar feels?"(page 3) He is showing his lack of empathy for animals. All his life Rainsford has been the hunter, not the hunted, and has no knowledge of the fear experienced by his prey. It also shows that he has never taken the time to think about the animals when he makes the "philosopher" comment. Rainsford also makes the claim that "I'm a hunter, not a murderer"( page 12) when the general invites Rainsford to go hunting with. Is the plot to still unfolding...
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