John Swenson English 11 1st Hour Comparison/Contrast Essay In this essay of comparison and contrast there will be comparisons and contrasts- or in other words similarities and differences- in Jack 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
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The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell, General Zaroff is hunting Sanger Rainsford throughout the woods. It starts out by Rainsford falling off a yacht and swimming to an island that is said to be haunted, he finds himself in front of a huge mansion where General Zaroff lives. Zaroff later tells Rainsford he hunts humans because it is a greater satisfaction than hunting animals. Rainsford refuses to hunt with Zaroff so as punishment, Zaroff hunts Rainsford. In the story, The Most Dangerous
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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
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In my opinion of the theme of the most dangerous game is to hunt to hunted because Rainsford is a hunter and he doesn't care about animals feels, also anther reason is that Generel Zaroff like to hunt humans, and my last reason is that General Zaroff wants to play the game with Rainsford. My first reason is that Rainsford don't care about animals feels.This show that Rainsford is a bad men, he said that hunting is the best sport in the world, also he said "animals don't feel the pain." He is
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How is it that an innocent game would lead to a future of unwanted consequences? No one expects the worst until it finally happens to them. My little sister is very competitive when it comes to winning. Eager to have a slight taste of victory was all it took for her to get into “Game Mode” as I would like to call it. She’ll be too focused on winning and stealing the ball from me that she will do anything to win. It was early in the morning, there were birds chirping while a cool breeze was in the
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Northwest Indiana Sox in Highland, IN, about a 30 minute drive from Tinley. We were ready, they were ready. Let's play ball!! The game was in the afternoon, so I had to whole morning to get hyped for this game. It was working. I could hardly wait to play! Listening to my playlist I had created especially for softball games, I was getting ready in the uniform assigned for the game. It was a blue Under Armour shirt, blue, smooth, pants with my number, 99, on it. We also had lumpy stinky blue socks, and my
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Why would you come back to something you love? In “The Most Dangerous Game,” hunting is all a man, named Rainsford, lives for. Rainsford is a talented man, who wouldn't betray hunting for anything. He thinks that hunting is the greatest sport that was ever made in this world. Then Rainsford once came across, the negative use of hunting, HUNTING HUMANS!!!! Even though, Rainsford experienced the situation, he is believed to come back to hunting. Rainsfords dedication to hunting, will motivate him to
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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
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The short stories, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe,” both are suspenseful. Both authors used suspense to slow time and create a sense of danger. Suspense can be felt in the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” when General Zaroff is hunting Rainsford. Rainsford is in a tree hiding when the narrator says, “The general’s eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree”(Connell 32). The reader can feel the sense of
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In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell Zaroff sets people up from boat wrecks and hunts them like animals. Rainsford states, “the world is made up of two classes -- the hunters and the huntees.” I think there are more types of people in the world than two. In the story the author presented two hunters, Rainsford, and Zaroff. Zaroff thinks its ok to hunt humans if he gives them exercise, food, and water. In the book Rainsford is the real hunter and Whitney proves it. “ I’ve
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