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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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 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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This type of point of view adds a chance to view the story from two different perspectives. It works out because it also adds more interest to plot‚ instead of reading the story through the eyes of one character. If “The Most Dangerous Game” were told in a different perspective‚ like an objective point of view‚ the story would lose a lot of important aspects to it‚ like the thoughts and feelings of Rainsford and General Zaroff‚ and it would also lose it’s uniqueness. The point of view for this story
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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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The Most Dangerous Game In the short story “The most dangerous game” written by Richard Connell there is a man named Rainsford who is a hunter that fears nothing‚ until one night where he falls off the boat he was on and was washed up on the generals island. There he was forced to play a cruel game to which only the general cold win. Rainsford learns the new meaning of fear during the role of the hunter and the huntee‚ and this helps him become a more sensitive and sympathetic man. Rainsford is
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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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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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The Adventurous Tale of Rainsford People’s characteristics and actions can determine what will happen to them. This is true in Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Rainsford’s key characteristics such as his creativeness‚ toughness‚ and moral values are crucial to his survival. Rainsford is a very clever and creative man and this is crucial to his survival. He is creative by hiding up in a tree but before he hides in the tree‚ he is frantically looking for a place to go. He
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