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    extravagant things. In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game‚” Sanger Rainsford is the person who deals with these things. The story focuses on Rainsford‚ a one time‚ big game hunter‚ and the events on an island that he swims to after falling off Whitney’s ship. On Ship-Trap Island‚ Rainsford encounters and is hunted by a deranged man named General Zaroff‚ who is a tall man with no heart‚ and likes to hunt more dangerous game. During the events on Ship-Trap Island‚ Rainsford is witty

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    Hunting is not always just for survival. Sometimes it is for sport like in the story. In the most dangerous game Rainsford a hunter ends up on a island being hunted by a man that lives on the island name Zaroff. Rainford is be hunted be a man that lives on the island. Richard Connell uses mood/tone in his story “The Most Dangerous Game” to convey the theme of competition rarely enhances a person’s character. At the beginning of the story Rainford would only kill animal nut competition made him

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    The Most Dangerous Game Literary Devices When is the last time that you saw a literary device? In a poem‚ or a novel? Perhaps a short story? Literary devices: we all use them‚ we all love them‚ but what can it really do for an author’s writing? When used correctly they can add character and dimension to one’s writing‚ but what some fail to remember is that even the best writers can fall extremely short to writing excellent literary elements. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game‚” Richard

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    The “Most Dangerous Game” is indeed not a game for the faint hearted; real life hunger games does bring fear with the thrill. Rainsford‚ a game hunter‚ was on his yacht when he got thrown from the ship into the Caribbean sea. Rainsford swam to an island where he was awaited with a man named General Zaroff. General hunted game too‚ nevertheless the Generals game was humans‚ and Rainsford fell right into his trap. Rainsford had 3 days to survive a hunting spree by the General. If he made it 3 days

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    General Zaroff in the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a narcissistic-psychopathic devil. One quotes that shows this is when the General says‚ “I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from tramp ships- lassars‚ blacks‚ chinese‚ whites‚ mongrels- a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.” This shows that General Zaroff was narcissistic because all of the people he lists as scum of the Earth take up the entire population of the world. He believes that he

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    The Most Dangerous Game In the short story “The most dangerous game” written by Richard Connell there is a man named Rainsford who is a hunter that fears nothing‚ until one night where he falls off the boat he was on and was washed up on the generals island. There he was forced to play a cruel game to which only the general cold win. Rainsford learns the new meaning of fear during the role of the hunter and the huntee‚ and this helps him become a more sensitive and sympathetic man. Rainsford is

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    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. Similes are exploited throughout Richard Connell’s twisted and page turning story. “ Then‚ as he stepped

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    movie pictures of all time‚ is very similar‚ but different to the short story The Most Dangerous Game. The setting in both stories shows isolation‚ and how there is no escape. But‚ they take place in two completely different places physically. The tone of the two stories shows darkness‚ being alone‚ and having to go into survival mode. But‚ the patterns are completely different. Although both High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game have similarities about isolation‚ their patterns are completely different

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