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    “The Most Dangerous Game” The setting of the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is absolutely essential to the plot of the story. For example‚ the story has to be set on an isolated island. If the setting is on mainland the people trapped would be able to have better resources such as police to get away from General Zaroff and his game. Another example why the story is set on a deserted island is that people would know about Zaroff game and no one would come near the island

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    Being put in a stressful situation can affect anyone even the strongest of people. In many stories and the real world people can be faced with this problem. In the Most Dangerous Game the protagonist is faced with this when he is being hunted by Zaroff the general. When Zaroff finds out that he is who he is he wants to hunt him to give him a challenge. When Rainsford learns what his plans are and realizes that he is going to hunt him he gets serious. Then once his adrenaline is flowing he had to

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    Starting off a bit morbid‚ 55 million people die every day. Some deaths are uncontrollable but some are homicides. In reading The Most Dangerous Game we as a class were asked whether or not it is considered okay to kill someone but like a ballot there were mixed results. This can branch out into many different topics ranging from abortion to downright murder. In my opinion‚ I think that killing is justified if you have a probable cause such as self defense‚ death penance‚ and abortion. Self defense

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    In “The Most Dangerous Game‚” by Richard Connell‚ the author uses conflicts‚ imagery‚ and a tenacious theme to add to the plot of the story. “The Most Dangerous Game” is a story about a man names Rainsford and his struggle to defeat a hunting game against the antagonist‚ General Zaroff. Rainsford had fallen off a yacht in the Caribbean Sea and swam up onto the beach of a mysterious island. He found his way to a home belonging to a man named General Zaroff. After meeting the General and his servant

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    Compare and Contrast Essay Placing a cigarette between his lips‚ he struck a match‚ inhaled smoke‚ and hurriedly put out the light. Almost immediately a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof. This scene is from “The Sniper‚” a story that is suspenseful throughout. Another story that is suspenseful throughout is “The Most Dangerous Games.” “The Most Dangerous Games” and “The Sniper” have many similarities and much differences such as the authors of the stories who are from different

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    in an island for three days without letting the general to find him out‚ and he hide successfully for three days and won the game. While both To Build a Fire and The Most Dangerous Game represent a surviving story‚ the main character in The Most Dangerous Game behaved wiser for he had accumulated lots of experience and survived successfully. First‚ The Most Dangerous Game tells that the protagonist Rainsford arrived an island as a castaway. Then

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    reading "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell there are multiple incidents of suspense. One of these moments is Rainsford’s first encounter with a man named Ivan‚ who greeted Rainsford with pistol pointed straight at his chest. Almost immediately‚ the reader began to anticipate whether this character would die‚ survive‚ or suffer other consequences such as injury causing tension in the story. Another occurrence of suspense is when General Zaroff begins to tell of the most dangerous game‚ hence the

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    reader engaged. In The Most Dangerous Game‚ Richard Connell’s use of imagery paints a picture in the readers’ minds. Suspenseful moods that are created by these pictures‚ are what keeps the readers wanting to know what happens next in the story‚ keeping them involved and continuing on with their reading. During the exposition‚ climax and falling action‚ suspense is created when Connell describes the situations that Rainsford falls into with great detail. In The Most Dangerous Game‚ Richard Connell uses

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    a friend ever been put in a situation separately at different times in your lives‚ but you both handled the situation very similarly? Lord of the Flies by Wiliam Golding and The Maze Runner by James Dashner put the characters into very similar situations that were resolved similarly‚ but the stories also contained several differences. In the novel Lord of the Flies a large group of boys crash landed onto an island with having no way to get off the island during the Second World War. The community

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    survival. If we did not have instinct‚ we wouldn’t have learned anything and wouldn’t know what to do if there ever was a crisis. “I’ll give him a trail to follow…” (Connell‚ 11). As he was being hunted Rainsford’s‚ the protagonist from “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell‚ primary instinct was to trick General Zaroff‚ the antagonist who hunts humans‚ and this instinct saved his life. “...dad’s star might have moved further… playing a solo…” (Dominey‚ 235). Tatum‚ the main character in Audition

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