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    "The Most Dangers Game"‚ also published as "The Hounds Of Zaroff"‚ is a shot story by Richard Connell‚ fist published in Collier’s on January 19‚ 1924. The story is inspired by the big-hunting Safaris in Africa and South America in the 1920s. while traveling to Rio de Janeiro Rainsford’s friend Whitney goes to bed and Rainsford stays on deck. Rainsoff hears a gunshot while trying to get a better look at the island nearby he falls over board causing him to have to swim to the island. when Rainsford

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    The Most Dangerous Animal asks what it is about human nature that makes it possible for human beings to regularly slaughter their own kind. It tells the story of why all human beings have the potential to be so cruel and destructive to one another. Why are we our own worst enemy? The book shows us that violence has been with us---in one form or another---since prehistoric times‚ and looking at the behavior of our most common relatives‚ the chimpanzees‚ it argues that a tendency for group violence

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    a stone idol‚ a mountain avalanche‚ the dinosaur fell. The author used a simile to describe the dinosaur as an avalanche because the dinosaur is humongous. He uses figurative language to make the story nightmarish and to let us know how big and dangerous the dinosaur is. The use of tone supports the mood of seriousness by Travis telling Eckles not to get out of the path. By Travis telling Eckles not to get out of the path so many times the reader can foreshadow that he might step outside and he

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    The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell Mr. Urban – English 1 Name: ___________________________________ Period: ____ Key Literary Terms “The Most Dangerous Game” A protagonist is the main character (the central or primary personal figure) of a literary‚ theatrical‚ cinematic‚ video game‚ or musical narrative‚ around whom the events of the narrative’s plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to share the most empathy. The principal opponent of the protagonist is a character

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    In David Livingstone Smith’s The Most Dangerous Animal‚ he first defines war as a word that is “ordinary” therefore a “workaday word (8).” He says we cannot be too broad with the idea of war but also not too narrow. War is a diverse phenomenon. In order to understand war “we must have an appreciation of its variety: the sometimes dramatically different forms that it has taken from time to time and place to place (11).” First Livingstone approaches the nature of “true war‚” true war is a recent development

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    worse is he gets pleasure out of this. He keeps many humans or what he calls “pupils” in his cellar that he uses for his sick and radical games. He uses everything from dogs to guns to hunt for them and he also has a henchman that helps him and does most of the torture‚ but leaves the killing to Zarrof. This man is sick and I would say retarded in the sense that he doesn’t think that he will ever be punished for this. He does not comprehend the fact that this is murder and that he will soon enough

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    short stories " The Most Dangerous Game" and "The Cage Man". His stories are based on his experiences encountered at war and how he sees the world. His moral thoughts on war and the taking of another living creature’s life is inflicted in his famous story " The Most Dangerous Game". On the contrary‚ Connell’s other short story "The Cage Man” is about a man that is viewed as something/someone else than who he actually is. Therefore‚ in Richard Connell’s short stories “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The

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    (Connell 10.)” In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” you see that it is enriched with such great life value which is why I love this short story. Now the question is‚ was this short story to entertain us and forget our troubles of the world or does it symbolize a true meaning of life? Literary fiction can be interpreted in so many ways depending on the person’s past experience‚ just as song lyrics can be interpreted depending on our life experience. The way I interpreted the moral of the

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    posses. Most books have the childish theme of “good guy beats bad guy” but some times a story can tackle much more adult‚ darker and thought-provoking‚ and contradictory of topics‚ such as the value of human life. Both “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Child by Tiger” by Thomas Wolfe have similar but unique themes of darkness and death‚ as well as similar conflicts and although the characters are fictional the ideas couldn’t be more real. In the “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ the

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    Fiction Essay Thesis and Outline Thesis: In both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell‚ the authors write to emphasize the sanctity of life through the conflicts endured by their main characters both implicitly and explicitly. I. Introduction A. Thesis Statement B. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson brief description C. “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell brief description II. Characterization A. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

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