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    “The Most Dangerous game” by Richard Connell is about what seems to be the “Most Dangerousgame. The Most Dangerous Game is about a hunter named Rainsford. Rainsford falls off of a yacht and swims to an island called Shiptrap island. Shiptrap Island retrieved its name because it has a history of shipwrecks. General Zaroff‚ the owner of shoptrat island‚ welcomes him to his island and reveals that he is out to hunt Rainsford. Rainsford then defeats General Zaroff‚ and Rainsford lives in his mansion

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    The stories of High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are very similar to each other. First things first is to explain the stories. High Noon is a story about a marshal named Will Kane who arrested a criminal named Frank Miller (or Mitchell as its changed in the screenplay). Miller for some reason is set free and now that he’s on the loose‚ he and his gang are on the hunt for Kane. When Kane finds out about this‚ he has just married his wife Amy who is a Quaker. So now he has to decide whether to

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    infinitely the pain we face." Monday‚ November 19‚ 2012 Compare and Contrast A paper from my English Literature and Composition class this summer... Abstract   In Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford and Trevor (better known as T.) are each faced with a moral dilemma. Each character is confronted with a post-war scenario. While T. is immersed in it‚ living in a post-war London‚ and striving to fit in with his peers; Rainsford

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    “The Most Dangerous Game” Compare and Contrast Essay Have you ever told someone that you know how they feel or that you feel their pain? Is that really possible? Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” introduces many different themes through the characters of General Zaroff and Sanger Rainsford. In “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ written by Richard Connell‚ Richard Connell develops the theme that to fully understand another’s plight‚ man must first experience it himself through Rainsford and

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    “It is a very great pleasure and honour to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford‚ the celebrated hunter‚ into my home.” These are the first words spoken to Rainsford by General Zaroff upon his arrival on Ship-trap Island. Formally greeting Rainsford gives Zaroff an appearance of a proper gentleman; well-educated and well-mannered. But by his dark eyes‚ military moustache‚ and strong face you can also tell that he is obviously a strong leader and military general. Behind his high cheek bones‚ white hair and

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    overcomes it‚ and he eventually kills his opponent. Doodle faces the challenge of walking. He perseveres‚ and eventually is able to walk. The Sniper is a short story where a sniper kills another person‚ only to find out that it is his brother. The Most Dangerous Game is a story where one man hunts the other man‚ but it turns around and the hunter becomes the hunter. The Scarlet Ibis is about a boy who was born with a disability‚ yet he overcomes it and learns to walk. Unfortunately‚ he is left alone and

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    write with more pessimistic views. William Golding‚ at the time‚ developed a theory which stated that people are inherently evil and that society keeps us good. While both the novel Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ and the short story The Most Dangerous Game‚ by Richard Connell‚ demonstrate the savagery and inherent evil of mankind through the desensitization to violence‚ the help of secondary and tertiary characters as well as a similar setting‚ the motivation propelling the characters’ actions

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    The Most Dangerous Game is a short story written by Richard Connell. In Connell’s short story‚ The Most Dangerous Game‚ the protagonist‚ Sanger Rainsford was successful in General Zaroff’s manhunt by surviving 3 days without being found and his former knowledge of hunting. He used many different strategies. Three of the strategies he used were‚ a series of loops and random trails‚ he climbed up a tree to avoid being spotted‚ and he also made a Burmese tiger pit to trick General Zaroff. Here are

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    General Zaroff Analysis

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    Zaroff has a few of the qualities listed he is lacking the most important ones compassion‚ love‚ and humanity. Those qualities‚ when missing from a person can make them appear to be one way though they are in fact completely different. In this case General Zaroff hunts humans which shows his lack of compassion‚ love‚ and humanity. Although General Zaroff is refined and well dressed‚ he is not civilized in Richard Connell’s “The most Dangerous Game.” General Zaroff appears to be civilized but he is

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    characters (e.g.‚ those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text‚ interact with other characters‚ and advance the plot or develop the theme. “The Most Dangerous Game” - Day 1 Name ___________________________ Date ____________ Reading Activities for “The Most Dangerous Game” PART A. Thinking About Plot What is the best movie you have ever seen? OR What is the best story you have ever read? Write a 3-5 sentence summary of that movie or book. Turn to

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