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    with Whitney and Rainsford riding a yacht‚ on their way to the Amazon to hunt. As their ride progresses Whitney and Rainsford discuss how the world consists of predators and preys‚ but Whitney doesn’t seem to coincide with him. Soon Rainsford hears gunshots coming from the island Whitney and him were discussing earlier. He sets off to find out where the gunshots came from. The rising action keeps on going as Rainsford approaches the island and finds Ivan and General Zaroff. As Rainsford is being hunted

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    Miller and his gang or flee town with his wife. The other story‚ The Most Dangerous Game‚ is similar in its own ways. The Most Dangerous Game is about a man named Rainsford who falls off his boat and is stranded on an island called Ship Trap Island. He discovers that the island is owned by a skilled hunter named General Zaroff. Rainsford discovers something different about the general is placed in a life and death situation. These two stories have many similarities with the settings‚ themes‚ and conflicts

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    obvious. It is good vs. evil‚ because Rainsford‚ which is apparently the good guy in this action/ adventure stories‚ because he immediately disapproves of the idea of hunting humans. On the other hand General Zaroff‚ who is the demented bad guy‚ thinks that Rainsfords is ludicrous‚ because he denies Zaroff offer to go hunting with him when he finds out what the “animal” is that they are hunting. For instance on pg. 15 Rainsford says “Hunting? Good god‚ General Zaroff‚ what you speak of is murder” this

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    Rainsford’s antagonist‚ General Zaroff is actually a vampire. This can go either way. Do I think he is a vampire‚ or do I not? For me the answer is simple. He is not a vampire‚ since a vampire is a mythical creature that did not exist. Unless we are talking about Vlad the Impaler‚ who was said to have killed around 75‚000 people‚ and also enjoyed watching people die slow painful deaths‚ and the smell of blood. So my question to you is‚ can I convince you that General Zaroff is not a vampire? First

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    overcome one who has intelligence or instinct. The characters in the story were Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff. Now in the story Sanger Rainsford is the victim‚ and General Zaroff is the predator. Now Sanger Rainsford was a hunter‚ he was fearless‚ brave‚ strong‚ and smart. He claim’s that he is superior to the animals that he kills. But when he is being hunted himself‚ his point of view changes. General Zaroff is a hunter‚ now he hunt’s animals for sport. So he goes on a deserted island and

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    “It’s a Dog Eat Dog World” “Life is for the strong‚ to be lived by the strong‚ and‚ if needs be‚ taken by the strong” (Connell 27). Rainsford did play the “game” in Richard Connell’s short story‚ proving that only the strongest survive. Who knew one fall could lead to so much misfortune. From the minute he fell off his yacht‚ Rainsford found himself in the biggest challenge of his life. In this short story‚ you learn that humans are not the only ones who have feelings‚ but that animals have feelings

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    The Most Dangerous Game 1. Rainsford is uncompassionate‚ this is seen when he’s talking to Whitney. “‘Don’t talk rot‚ Whitney.’ Said Rainsford. ‘You’re a big game hunter not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels’ ”.This shows how he’s uncompassionate because he takes no account for how the animals feel. It’s all about the sport. He is also a very proud person. This is seen when he boasts about his sport‚ hunting‚ and how it’s the best sport in the word. Rainsford is also courageous. This is

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    a man named Rainsford. Rainsford is a hunter who specifically hunts jaguars. He falls off a boat one night and swims to a nearby island known as Ship-Trap Island. There‚ he finds a huge castle and two people; a large man named Ivan and a hunter named General Zaroff. Over dinner‚ Zaroff explains that he traveled all over the world hunting animals‚ and started feeling bored of hunting‚ so he resorted to hunting humans. Rainsford was appalled and wanted a boat to go back home‚ but Zaroff said he could

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    us how the exact same thing happens to a guy named Sanger Rainsford‚ a big game hunter. At first everything was fine and Rainsford was sailing to Rio with his companion Whitney‚ the next thing he knows he is on an island playing a game with a man who loves to hunt humans. This tells us that you should never trust a desolate island. At first Whitney and Rainsford are sailing to Rio to hunt big game. On the boat‚ Whitney goes to bed‚ Rainsford hears a gunshot so he goes to end of the boat and falls

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    deeper political and social meaning to this widely read but rarely critiqued story. Beneath the thrill of the chase‚ the two main characters--Sanger Rainsford‚ a young American traveler‚ and General Zaroff‚ an old Russian aristocrat--represent competing views of the world that were at strong odds in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Rainsford‚ the youthful protagonist‚ is a masculine‚ elegant‚ swashbuckling hero. His surname certainly has a sophisticated resonance‚ like Rockefeller or Roosevelt

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