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    Suspense Paper on The Most Dangerous Game In the story The Most Dangerous Game‚ the main character Mr. Rainsford fell of his yacht and landed on Ship-Trap Island. He quickly found a house on this island‚ and started to knock on the door. Quickly‚ General Zaroff opens the door and invites him to dinner. At dinner‚ the general explains his love for hunting‚ along with Rainsford. Rainsford quickly realises that the general lost his love for hunting normal animals and moved on to capturing people and

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    Trap Island”. Rainsford‚ a famous hunter in New York was travelling to the Amazon forest to hunt the Jaguar. While on board passing the much-feared Ship Trap Island‚ he heard three gunshots. Trying to get a better look‚ he went on to the deck but unexpectedly drops his cigar. Trying to reach for it‚ he fell into the sea without anyone responding to his cries for help. He decides to swim to the island where he finds a Chateau‚ with two Cossacks living in there. One was General Zaroff while the other

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    named Rainsford needed to be brave to keep calm and figure out the best course of action. When confronted with danger‚ being brave is vital. Author of A Long Way Gone‚ Ishmael Beah‚ lived in a county that was collapsing at the seams that caused great tragedies and bloodshed. It was in this time that he was forced into a survival situation. “I passed through

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    The Most Dangerous Game Rainsford is in the worst game he has a hard time getting out of. And a hunt that would be able to change everyone from the inside.No matter who it is to enter the game of the hunt can become and who least expect losing thus to your last drop of humanity. Rainsford‚ both he and we contain certain conflicts and certainly will always be external and internal‚ in this case are just as dangerous if they do not know how to handle correctly. It could even become a war

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    him. For example Zaroff‚ in the beginning of the book‚ tells Rainsford how he has never failed in the ‘game’ and how he always wins. In my opinion‚ at this point Zaroff was too cocky and there was no way that Rainsford was going to let him win. When it comes to confidence you can’t have to much of it because if you start to get to confident‚ you give other people a reason they want to beat you even more than they did before they knew you were cocky. I think that is just what Rainsford did in “The Most

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    The Most Dangerous Game 1. General Zaroff is not a credible character at all. He is the opposite and beyond evil. General hunts people and calls it a sport. That shows us his negative actions. Secondly General things that its alright for him to destroy the weak for his own pleasure. As he states “Life is for the strong‚ to be lived by the strong‚ and if need be‚ taken by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure. I am strong why should I not use my

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    Ending Rainsford knew what he is going to do -swim back to the house and kill General Zaroff. But he saw a huge white object when he was swimming and he was tired‚ so he decided to give himself a break and see what the white object was. The general figured out that Rainsford jumped into the sea‚ and he realized that he might find out his secret‚ but he just ignored that possibility. He just told Ivan to guard the secret place. Unfortunately‚ he also ignored the fact that if Rainsford was swimming

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    into the way characters are presented. For example‚ General Zaroff’s physical appearance: "He was a tall man past middle age‚ for his hair was a vivid white‚ but his thick eyebrows and pointed military mustache were as black as the night from which Rainsford had come. His eyes too‚ were black and very bright. He had high cheek bones‚ a sharp cut nose‚ a spare‚ dark face‚ the face of a man used to giving orders the face of an aristocrat." He was a sophisticated man‚ yet he was manipulative‚ arrogant‚

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    At the beginning of this story‚ it is only revealed that General Zaroff is found of Mr. Rainsford’s work as a hunter because Zaroff is a hunter himself. A little later into the text we find out that General Zaroff got bored with hunting even the wildest animals and started hunting humans. Zaroff wanted to go hunting with Rainsford‚ and soon Rainsford is to find out Zaroff wants to hunt him. In “Hunters in the Snow‚” the reader is able to empathize with the characters

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    In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell‚ the story’s protagonist Sanger Rainsford is hunted throughout the jungle of an uninhabited island‚ by General Zaroff a man who is fixated on hunting humans for sport. In the short story “Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton‚ an imperious‚ semi-barbaric king rules over his kingdom with an iron fist‚ when his daughter

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