Prereading Activity #2 (geared toward students who need motivation): 1. Write "The Most Dangerous Game" on the board. Put a square around it. 2. All around the square write the following words: hunting‚ reason‚ ship‚ survival‚ dangerous‚ mansion‚ dogs‚ island‚ game. 3. Tell students you’re going to read "The Most Dangerous Game." The words around the box are associated with the story. 4. Instruct students to make a prediction using each word in a sentence. OR Prereading Surveys:
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Most people would never believe that an island inhabited by a human-hunting gentleman would ever exist in real life. That kind of setting comes alive in Richard Connell’s short story‚ "The Most Dangerous Game". The protagonist in this short story is Rainsford‚ a land-locked sailor who must fight using his wits to survive. He is also recognized for his ingenious hunting skills and knowledge. He ends up trapped on an island and is hunted by Zaroff. Zaroff‚ the antagonist‚ is a cunning gentleman who
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“The most dangerous game” By Richard Connell is one of the most riveting short stories. Rainsford‚ a wealthy and ambitious hunter is confronted with a change of tides‚ when he accidently falls off his boat‚ mid sea. Taking refuge on an Island‚ due to gunshots heard from the Island the night prior. After a long night’s rest Rainsford had tracked down‚ the antagonist General Zaroff‚ After a post incident diner the two then proceed to talk about past hunts and the thrills of chase‚ when general Zaroff
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A COMPARISON OF THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME WITH THE LOTTERY ____________ A Research Paper Submitted to ____________ In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for ENGL 102-D23 LUO ____________ By The Most Dangerous Game‚ by Richard Connell and The Lottery‚ by Shirley Jackson portray the common theme that people remain indifferent to cruelty until they are the recipients of it. Both stories show that when the darker side of human nature centers on itself‚ evil
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In the story‚ The Most Dangerous Game‚ the author uses many things to lead up to his climax. Richard Connell puts the characters in many different situations which cause them to overcome adversity. Connell makes it very clear that Zaroff is the antagonist and Rainsford the protagonist. Connell uses violence in many ways‚ the main two are physical and psychological. The first way Connell uses violence and we see this first hand at the very beginning‚ is psychological. The author uses the psychological
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Noon is a movie of slow-paced action. "The Most Dangerous Game" is the story of a game no one wanted. Both of them have a very similar plot and dynamic. You just have to look really closely. The main characters have a very similar way of viewing things. At the heart of both these stories‚ they are really quite similar‚ with a few distinctive differences. The plot of both have a dynamic that is very similar to each other. Both of the characters are being hunted in some form‚ and by murderers
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English 9A Analytical Essay The “Hunger Games” on opening weekend brought in $152‚535‚747 dollars. I believe that I will easy top that‚ being the great director that I am. I will take Richard Cornell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” and turn it into a worldwide hit. I think that I will bring this short story to life using multiple elements of both movie and fiction! There will be both internal and external conflict. The internal conflict will be between Rainsford and himself. Having to use his resourceful
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and being hunted by general Zaroff. Richard Connell is the author and the short story is "Most Dangerous Game". Rainsford fell off a boat and swam to an island. Richard Connell uses mood in his story of "Most Dangerous Game" to convey the theme of hunting might not always be ok. People should think more about animals feelings a little bit. Rainsford doesn’t care how animals feel. "You’re a big-game hunter‚ not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?" (1). The mood in this scene is
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The Most Dangerous Game is a short story by Richard Connell. It is an adventure story about a man who falls off a ship. The closest island has a bad reputation for bad things happening. The story is about the adventures the lost person has on the island though none of what goes on is scary or even believable. The first activity would be to have the students start a vocabulary box. The students will need either a 3 x 5 box or a 4 x 6 box and the corresponding note cards. They will also need‚ notebook
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in an island for three days without letting the general to find him out‚ and he hide successfully for three days and won the game. While both To Build a Fire and The Most Dangerous Game represent a surviving story‚ the main character in The Most Dangerous Game behaved wiser for he had accumulated lots of experience and survived successfully. First‚ The Most Dangerous Game tells that the protagonist Rainsford arrived an island as a castaway. Then
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