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    Awakening from General Zaroff’s comfortable bed‚ Rainsford felt he just had the most bizarre dream in his life. What happened slowly came back to his mind. He won in Zaroff’s hunt and then he fell asleep in Zaroff’s bed. Zaroff was the hunter who lived in the enormous building on Ship-Trap Island. Rainsford wasn’t mad like the day before‚ and he got dressed and walked down the to the diner looking for breakfast. Zaroff wasn’t there‚ but there was a new person‚ Evan. Evan looked exactly like Ivan

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    Zaroff had to try to describe why he had humans instead of animals as Zaroff was trying to explain Rainsford was still confused on why he would do such a crime but Zaroff starts describing it in a way that he can to understand‚ Zaroff wants a challenge‚ that’s when Rainsford starts accepting the action and thinking about do it himself. That’s when it jogged my memory about how there are

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    characterizations of Rainsford and General Zaroff in “The Most Dangerous Game.” Which one is more fully characterized? Are both characters plausible? The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell‚ the author portrays two distinctly alike men‚ who yet are very different. The two main characters‚ Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff both have a strong passion for hunting. The first is Rainsford and he is‚ in all extensive purposes‚ the protagonist. The second‚ the antagonist‚ is General Zaroff. There is one

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    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

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    characterization shows that Rainsford is a smart‚ educated man‚ because he has written a known book about hunting. In the story Rainsford also says “Thank you‚ I’m a hunter‚ not a murderer.”(p.6‚ Richard Connell) This shows the reader that Rainsford knows what’s right from wrong‚ and how humans should be treated‚ rather than how Zaroff treats the men that cross his path. Rainsford’s opinion on hunting is evident in the beginning of the story when Whitney and Rainsford are talking and they say “‘

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    between Rainsford and himself. Having to use his resourceful actions in order to outplay General Zaroff. The external conflict will be Man vs. Nature and Man vs. Man. Man vs. Nature will be implied in two major scenes‚ where Rainsford falls of the yacht and has to fight his way to shore. And the other example of external will be when his leg gets caught in the quicksand. Man vs. Man will be all

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    foreshadowing to keep the reader’s attention. The story starts out with Rainsford falling overboard of his ship near Ship-Trap Island. On the island Rainsford finds a house and a man named General Zaroff who lives there. General Zaroff welcomes Rainsford into his house and tells Rainsford how he is a hunter. General Zaroff then invited Rainsford to go on a hunt with him‚ but Rainsford told him no. After Rainsford says no Zaroff tells him he will become the hunted. In the short story “The Most Dangerous

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    Dangerous Game” Essay Hannah Thompson Rainsford washes up on the shore of General Zaroff’s island. He meets Zaroff and finds out that he has been hunting humans for sport. When Rainsford refuses to hunt with Zaroff‚ he turns against him. Now Rainsford is the one who is being hunted. This story is trying to point out that life is made of the weak and strong and in the end‚ you become as dangerous as the thing you once feared. First off‚ Whitney and Rainsford speak about the idea of weak and strong

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    tool all humans are born with. In The Most Dangerous Game‚ Rainsford learns that fear originates from the desire to continue living‚ he has fear most when running from Zaroff‚ and deals with it by forcing himself to calm down‚ proving his will power. Rainsford experiences the most fear he ever has in his life‚ even though he lives a risky life. He only feels this much fear because‚ for the first time‚ his life is truly in danger. Rainsford learns that fear comes only when your life and well-being

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    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. To begin with‚ the external conflict that occurred between him and Zaroff caused Rainsford to no longer be the hunter‚ but the hunted. While

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