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Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:The Most Dangerous Game

Point of View: Omniscent

Protagonist: Mr.Sanger Rainsford

What type of character is the Protagonist?: The chararcter is a dynamic character because during the story he changes as a result of the events in the story.

Antagonist: General Zaroff

Describe the setting: The setting is Ship Trap island, an island privately owned and operated by General Zaroff. The island is in the Carribean Sea and on the island is a jungle and forest setting you would expect for a jungle, it has many trees thick woods and also a coast. With many challenges and obstacles such as quick sand pits and thick bush. The island also inhabits the general's private mansion which is a grand and magnificent place. Although as the story goes on the setting changes because Rainsford is being chased so the setting is constantly changing. In the very beggining of the story the setting takes place at General Zaroffs private mansion and throughout the middle and rising action of the story the setting takes place in the jungle of Ship Trap island. Yet at the very end of the story the setting winds up back at General Zaroffs manor. Time Period?

Type of Conflict:Man v. Man

Describe the main conflict: The main conflict is between Rainsford and General Zaroff. General Zaroff has begun to tire of hunting animals and so he thinks of an if you will a creative way to solve his problem. General Zaroff in his own words creates a new type of game and that game is hunting humans. Even with his new creation he still craves more of a challenge and so Rainsford washing up on shore was a blessing. During the main conflict General Zaroff decides to hunt Rainsford and the main conflict involves Mr.Rainsford being chased through Ship Trap island while closely tailed by his hunter General Zaroff. The two men struggle against each other Zaroff trying to kill Rainsfordnand Rainsford struggling to survive.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax of the story comes at the very end of the hunt and in a way the climax of the hunt too. General Zaroff is hot on Rainsfords tail and finaly Rainsford has run out of room to run on the island. He comes to the edge of a cliff on the bay of the island and is forced with no other option to make a miraculous dive into the Carribean water's. I know this is the climax because after this point the story begins to decline and conclude until it ends.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?: At the beggining of the story Rainsford in my mind is very similar to General Zaroff in the way they view hunting. Rainsfords originaly is a heartless hunter who does not beleive that animals have any feelings nore even know what is happening whilst they are being hunted. He has no care for the feelings of the animal he is hunting and even beleives that the animals have no feelings. But over the course of the story while talking to General Zaroff he realizes the ignorance at which his veiws come from and after his experience with being hunted he realizes what it was like being hunted. After that he completely changed his opinion on hunting and realized what tramas the animal was put through being hunted and the fear at which it provides. So in the end he completely changed his ides on hunting.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme: The title is like a hint at what the story will incorperate. The title makes me think that in the story the main characters will be hunting something that is the most dangerous of its kind. In the story one of the main characters does hunt the most dangerous thing you can hunt which are humans. So the author links the title to how the story unravels without giving away to much of the actual context.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?: The theme of the story is one man hunting another man. The main conflict shows how General Zaroff is hunting Mr.Rainsford. Essentially the main conflict of the story which describes how General Zaroff try's to hunt and track down Mr.Rainsford and since the theme of the story is one man hunting another the conflict is essential a very intruiging and suspenseful way of portraying the theme.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?: The climax of the story is when Rainsford plunges himself into the sea as a last ditch effort to escape from General Zaroff. The theme of the story is one man versus another man and in this case it is one man hunting another. The climax of the story has been caused because the General Zaroff is hunting Mr.Rainsford so the climax helps to illustrate the theme because the theme of the story is Man vs. Man and the climax of the story is cause because of a conflict between two men.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile: "...It's like moist black velvet." I think this is a good simile because it was used to describe the setting which in this case was the sight Mr.Rainsford could see whilst peering out into the Carribean night sea, and it to me paints a very good picture in my mind.

Metaphor: "...the fear of pain and the fear of death." I especially like this metaphor because it describes the emotions in which the animal feels. It feels the "fear of pain and fear of death" which is exactly what the metaphor states.

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1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? 2/2 What that means is that because Rainsford was extremely nervous and feared for his life so time seemed to stand still to him because he was so nervous and concerned for his life. At any moment General Zaroff could have spotted him and easily could have killed him and the adrenaline yet pure terror that, that had caused him made Rainsford feel as if that time was mooving incredibly slow as if a minute was a year.

2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? 2/2 Rainsford says he is a beast at bay because throughout the story he is being hunted by the General as if he was some sort of animal. So Rainsford is refering to himself as a beast because he is being hunted. He says he is at bay because in the end he kills General zaroff and so he has murdered someone and still not been caught. So therefore he says "I am still a beast at bay"

3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? 1/1 The story is set in the Caribbean sea.

4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? 1/2 Zaroff first of all had a very rich father and so that is one way he could have afforded to finance his lifestyle. Another would have been the many incredibly rare animals in which he has hunted and sold them for pelts meat and other things of that nature.

5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? 1/1 If Rainsford wins the general promises to set him free. He promises to place him on the mainland near a town if after 3 dyas the general cannot find him.

6. What happened to Lazarus? /0/2 Lazarus one of general Zaroff's best dogs was killed in Rainsford's Burmese tiger trap. The trap was a pit covered up with leaves and dangerously sharp spikes sticking out. When Lazarus fell into the trap he was killed.

7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt?1 /1 Rainsford spent his first night running from and Zaroff and finally ending up hidding in a tree to cover himself. As the chase started at night he spent the majority of the night running.

8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? 1/1 His father owned a qaurter of a million acres.

9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? 1/1 Zaroff suggest to Rainsford to wear moccasins because they leave a poorer trail therefore harder to track when hunting.

10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. 3/3 Fisrt of all Zaroff is an expert hunter and so for him to make such a simple mistake would be incredibly out of character and also to me since he turned around and went back i think that, that would indicate that he knows the trail ends but choses to let his game go for another day, for another hunt. Also Zaroff's eyes were traveling up the tree and grew closer and closer to Rainsford so the likely hood that he saw him was very good especially for the trained eye of a hunter. Lastely Zaroff smiled as he walked away and to me that means he knows that Rainsford is in the tree but wishes to play with him more before he goes in for the final kill. And yes i do think that Rainsford was right in beleiving that Zaroff had seen him because of Zaroff's reaction to reaching the tree and the tracks stopping. In my opinion the general had purposefully let Rainsford live another day and did know he was in the tree.

11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? 2/2 In Zaroff's own words he says "Sometimes an angry god of the high seas sends them to me, when Porvidence is not so kind, I help Providence a bit..." What Zaroff is saying is that occasionally a ship will get stuck on his rocks or crash in the reef on his island and the stray sailors will wash up on his beach. Yet at other times when the gods are not so favorable he helps his cause along a little. Zaroff continues on to tell Rainsford of a trap that he created using lights to lure ships in and make them think that they were entering a safe passage when really the opposite was true and he was luring them into a channel of massive razor sharp rocks. Waiting like a sea monster this trap cause many ships to fall prey to his ways and thats how he stocked his island.

12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2/2 In the ned of the story as General Zaroff is goin to retire for the night he is met by Rainsford in his bedroom. Although Zaroff attempts to let Rainsford of the hook and let him go Rainsford attempts to fight Zaroff for the last time. In the end Zaroff is defeated by Rainsford and killed.

13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? 2/2 Because Zaroff indicates that he has become slightly bored with hunting and the previous human "game that he had hunted was easily not as resources or difficult to hunt as Rainsford for the first time Zaroff was being presented by a challenge. Zaroff is impressed because it is a rare thing to find any man that can make a malay mancatcher and yet he was able to make one. Also because this was the first time in ages that ZAroff had been presented by a challenge by anything that he had hunted. Zaroff congratulates him because Rainsford had done something nothing he had ever hunted before had done and was impressed by his resourcefulness and his all around ability to survive.

14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man?2 /2 Fist of all Rainsford is an expert hunter and so it is almost a given for all hunters to be extremely fit but in the context of the story there all a few other ways to tell. The first example is when Rainsford is chased through the thick bush for two hours and for not one second does he stop. Another instance is in the very beggining and also near the end when Rainsford is forced to swim from his ship to the island and also he swims all the way around the island. To do something that requires that much physical exertion that certain person would have to be in extremely good physical condition not to mention he completed that final swim after two full days of being chased.

15. Discuss the state of mind of Rainsford before he lands on the island versus that after he meets the General. What is different? (Especially about how he perceives animal feelings.)5/5 His original perception of animals are that they dont have feelings and he has no space in his mind for consideration about the mind set of the animal. Infact he says who cares about what the game feels and continues on to say they have no understanding of what is happening. He is in a way insensitive to animals and does not know the stress or trama that hunting can cause sich an animal. He does not realize nor care what the animal feels in fact he does not think the animal can feel at all. But after his immense or deal and after meeting General Zaroff he realizes what being hunted is like and how it can effect an animal. Because he had been hunted by General Zaroff he had finally come to realize what it was like being hunted for a change instead of just hunting animals. His ideas about hunting completely flip, in the begginiing he has not a thought in his mind about what the animal feels but by the end he realises that the animal does know what is happening. Since he was being hunted he felt what animals felt, he felt the fear of pain and the fear of death. Because of this he understood what animals felt and completely switched his thoughts about animals and was sympathetic to animals and began to care about what they felt and the trama they went through.

16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. 3/3 He inspires fear using imagination, such as when Zaroff may have spotted Rainsford in the tree he expresses that Rainsford is in clear fear for his life without actually providing any gore. When Connell does something like that the imagination runs wild with thoughts of whether or not Rainsford had been spotted and the reader begins to feel as if he was Rainsford and sympathisez with him. Another good effect is that Connell describes the situation very vivadly with plenty of detail and so he paints a mental image and the reader begins to feel as oif they can feel the same fear that the protagonist does. He also makes a connection to humans being hunted like animals without using any gore he has made it so you feel as if you are Rainsford an d can feel the same fear as if you where beiong hunted. Connell does a very good job of inspiring fear especially in the way that he describes the protagonists reactions things such as his adrenaline and heart rate and explains the fear that Rainsford was feeling. So in all those ways he truely inspires fear with out any profanitites. 28/32 The Most Dangerous Game

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