An author uses literary devices to allow the reader to engage. The author uses descriptive writing to enhance the individual’s imagination. It also gives them ways to relate and a divergent way to think about writing. The three most important literary devices used in The Most Dangerous Game are similes, imagery, and foreshadowing. Richard Connell utilizes these devices to create a fun and inspiring story.…
Obtain for dry test tubes and number them 1 through 4. Prepare two dry Pasteur pipets with bulbs attached. Place 9.0 mL of hexane, 2.0 ml of acetone, and 2.0 mL of solution of 70% hexane-30% acetone into separate Erlenmeyer flask. Label and stopper each flask. Place 0.3 mL of a solution containing fluorine and fluorenone into a small test tube. Stopper the test tube. Prepare one 10-cm x 4.3 cm TLC with four marks for spotting. Prepare four micropipets to spot the plates.…
The Most Dangerous Game (Sequel) Rainsford jolted awake for the ninth time that night, breathing rapidly as his eyes darted to every crevice of his room. It had become a commonplace routine for him to wake up in such a manner, but today seemed different than it was yesterday. Once he finally calmed down, Rainsford glanced at the calendar, July 31, 1928. “ Why have I been awoken again and again?” Rainsford muttered to himself as he ran his fingers through his messy locks of hair.…
I find that the most important part of this story is how the plot moves along so quickly. It also manages to describe successfully each conflict or major part of the story. The key element of the plot is when Zaroff and Rainsford play the game. The main conflict would be external which is man verses man, or Zaroff verses Rainsford. There are three major conflicts of man that can be found in Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game." In the rest of this short essay I will utilize the elements of compositions and also identify and explain the three conflicts of man found in this story.…
The major theme/lesson of the play is to always put somebody else before you. If you do than you will learn more about yourself in long run.…
In attempt to entice and lure the reader into reading further, the author of “The Most Dangerous Game” creates a suspenseful mood through the uncertainty and danger in the story. First of all, the described setting played a huge role in developing the tense mood. The island that Rainsford and Whitney approached was supposedly named “Ship-Trap Island,” and as if the name wasn't suspicious enough, Whitney proclaimed that “sailors have a serious dread of the place,” and “The place has a reputation--a bad one.” In addition, the uncanny feeling in the air shot a sudden chill down Rainsfords back. He recited, “What I felt was a--a mental chill; a sort of sudden dread. The use of this eerie environment draws the reader in, in desire to uncover the…
Hollern Men and Beasts One might shudder at the thought of being hunted by another man. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell reveals the idea of being hunted and slain by another man is all too real. In this story Rainsford finds himself stranded on an island whilst being hunted by General Zaroff who happens to be a skilled hunter in his own right. In this short story the line between man and beast is clouded and the fight between logic and instinct ensues. In this story Rainsford finds that the difference between man and beast is a thin one.…
“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is an intriguing work of fiction that effortlessly combines both aspects of literary and commercial fiction. Connell was able to write a piece that successfully combines fast-paced action as well as upholding literary merit. Not only did Connell write this story with an exciting and adventurous component, he also managed to convey a deeper meaning within the story by allowing his readers to be pulled into the excitement of the story, while also giving them an insight to a darker, more primitive side of human beings. He creatively depicts a unique setting in which the main character has nothing to fear but mankind itself. Connell not only generates…
Richard Connell, the author of The Most Dangerous Game implies that people need to hunt or be hunted in order to stay alive through becoming insane.…
Imagine ending up an island that has a very bad reputation by all sailors. At first you think that it is not dangerous, but then you learn about what happens on the island. Rainsford and his friend Whitney were on a boat travelling to Rio. The short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a very suspenseful story that shows how Rainsford is very brilliant. Rainsford is on his boat when he falls off and lands in the water and he ends up swimming to the island nearby that all sailors hate sailing past. Rainsford is very smart because when he gets to the island he knows many tricks he learned from hunting for many years and he uses them to help him win against Zaroff. Rainsford shows he's smart throughout the story by creating…
Perhaps one of the reasons that “The Most Dangerous Game” is still read to this day may be because of the ambiguous ending that this short story has. The way the story is left off leads the reader to many different conclusions as to what happened. Perhaps the two most common inferences would be that either Rainsford realizes that he is becoming like Zaroff, or Rainsford realizes that he is nothing like Zaroff and takes comfort in this. There is much evidence that supports both of these theories.…
It is commonly believed that if you are in a position of power and authority you will always remain so. In his fictional short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell’s characters, Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff, had the same opinion. Like many individuals, neither men ever expected to be placed in a position of weakness. The deadly conflict that led to both Rainsford and Zaroff hunting and being hunted developed the theme, “strength and power are temporary,” because two once powerful men suddenly fell.…
Authors use many literary elements, such as figurative language, to write out the theme of their stories. In the two short stories, “Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the themes are described by literary elements. “The Cask of Amontillado” is about a man trying to get revenge by tricking another man telling him about having expensive wine. “The Most Dangerous Game” is an eccentric short story about a General who lives on an island and hunts humans. The theme of irony delineate the themes for both of the short stories.…
What makes a story suspenseful? Is it imagery? Is it dialogue? The reason for suspense varies for different people. For some, dialogue makes a story suspenseful and others maybe diction or even a combination of two aspects but typically not the same aspects for every person. In a movie, it is usually the sounds and darkness and location. In a book though, there are no sounds so you need other aspects such as diction, dialogue, imagery, plot, etc.…
As Donnie Vincent once said, "The truth is... I'm always saddened when I kill an animal. It's not remorse I feel. I know why I'm a hunter. It's out of respect." But not always do the roles stay the same, sometimes, the tides turn and the hunted become the hunters.This story is so thought provoking, because of its classic theme that anyone can become the hunted. When one looks at “Hungry Like The Wolf” by duran duran, one can see that this theme is still pertinent to today’s world because even in music they show that anyone can become the hunted. One example is when in the duran duran song, they say “Straddle the line, in discord and rhyme, I’m on the hunt I’m after you.” The use of mood, suspense and setting are expertly crafted to support the theme of The Most Dangerous Game”.…