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    In Richard Connell’s short story‚ The most dangerous game‚ tells 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

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    The Most Dangerous Animal asks what it is about human nature that makes it possible for human beings to regularly slaughter their own kind. It tells the story of why all human beings have the potential to be so cruel and destructive to one another. Why are we our own worst enemy? The book shows us that violence has been with us---in one form or another---since prehistoric times‚ and looking at the behavior of our most common relatives‚ the chimpanzees‚ it argues that a tendency for group violence

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    A Setting! There are similarities between action movies and the story The Most Dangerous Game. Most action movies take place on an island or private property owned by the government‚ and the characters have tried to fight in order to survive. For example‚ the movie I Am Legend takes place in New York City after an infection turned the citizens of New York into mutated zombies. Just like the story The Most Dangerous Game‚ takes place on an island that every sailor calls “Ship-Trap Island”. In Both

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    in the setting such as weather and atmosphere‚ however they may not be apparent in every story. In the short stories The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell and The Destructors by Graham Greene elements of setting can be seen pretty clearly. Although the settings of these stories are very different‚ The Destructors taking place in London after WWII and The Most Dangerous Game taking place on a remote island in the Caribbean‚ these stories do draw some similarities as well. The setting of a story

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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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    The Most Dangerous Game The exciting suspense of action of Richard Connell’s " The Most Dangerous Game" brings in a dark‚ mysterious‚ and evil setting as it takes us to a young man’s storm of thoughts about the game of hunting and the instinct to survive. Rainsford was his name‚ and he was a proud hunter full of wit and reason. He loved hunting and did not care nor know about the feelings of the "huntees". He eventually meets up with another hunter named Zaroff who gives him the feeling of being

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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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    book-writer(p.71) in the short story "The Most Dangerous Game". Rainsford was stranded on the island "Ship-Trap Island" due to his yacht falling into pieces from hitting the unknown‚ unseen crags in the water(p.69). Rainsford was the only survivor of the shipwreck. When Rainsford was on foot on the island‚ he followed footsteps leading up to an irregular house. Little did he know that he was walking into the home of General Zaroff‚ a Russian aristocratic(p.72) big game hunter‚ who soon became uninterested

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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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    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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