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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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    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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    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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    “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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    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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    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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    Sanger Rainsford shows physical strength‚ and bravery. From the book Speak‚ by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ Melinda Sordino shows bravery and mental strength. The major traits of a survivor are bravery‚ physical strength‚ and mental strength and all of these people show these traits. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game‚” by Richard Connell‚ Sanger Rainsford shows many traits of a survivor. The first trait is bravery. Rainsford was brave because at first when he was asked to play general Zaroff game he

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    and adventures in both features. General Zaroff and Rainford go in war with each other. The film follows the book in a flow. Although they seem very similar‚ they have many differences. There are more characters and more horror. In the book‚ there was not a character that was a lady or damsel in distress. This new character is Eve Trollbridge. She warned Rainsford when he first came and she went with him when General Zaroff was trying to hunt for Rainsford. This is different because you had to have

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    unfamiliar island. In which he finds General Zaroff only then does the good part of the story begin‚ yes the start of this story was a bit slow but once the game starts it is hard to stop reading. The simularities were the moods of the main characters during the story‚ the sniper and Sanger Rainsford were both very calm even when their situations turned for the worst. The Most Dangerous Game takes place for the most part on the island that Sanger Rainsford ends up on after facing the ocean current

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    their feelings. This is shown in these four statements. First‚ Rainsford was talking to his friend on the side of a hunting yacht in pitch black saying that no one cares about the Jaguar this may suggest that he is a hardcore‚ Hunter. Not many people do it now‚ but there was one point in time where hunting was done in excessive amounts and most killed for sport ‚ not for food. The second is when General Zaroff is showing Rainsford his vast collection of animal heads in his great hall before dinner

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