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    Without the conflicts throughout the story The Most Dangerous Game by: Richard Connell would be boring. Rainsford’s trap is man versus man. The quicksand swallowing his foot is man versus nature. Last but not least Rainford telling himself many times to keep his nerve is man versus self. The Most Dangerous Game has many kinds of conflict and many examples of these conflicts. In the short story The Most Dangerous Game one conflict is man versus man. For example, when Rainsford sets the traps for…

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    In Richard Connell's story “The Most Dangerous Game”, the setting is the most essential part of the passage. Meaning that the setting needs to be on an island. In order for general zaroff to do what he does best, he would have to be located on an island. General Zaroff specifically moved to an island for many reasons, one being that the island is the only place where he can kill the most dangerous game. As General Zaroff shows Rainsford how he catches his prey “Rainsford saw a flash of…

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    All stories have conflict. Without conflict, a story could not be possible. The first conflict in Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, is Man vs. Nature. Other conflicts in the story are Man vs. Himself and Man vs. Man. In “The Most Dangerous Game” all three conflicts are shown. Man vs. Nature is evident in the story and is essential to the plot. For example, in the beginning of the story, if Rainsford did not fall off the yacht and “for a seemingly endless time he fought the sea” (2)…

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    The Most Dangerous Game short story paragraph Students of literature around the world should read, “The Most Dangerous Games”.They should read this short story because it had action, suspense and getting the readers into hunting. in it. For example,when Rainsford and Whitney were hoping to have some good hunting in the Amazon, Rainsford says, Hunting is, “The best sport in the world”(Connell 1). This quote means that Rainsford agrees that hunting is the best sport to do. So they are telling the…

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    "The Most Dangerous Game," by Richard Connel demonstrates "the world is made up of two classes- the hunters and the hunted." The story ,"The Most Dangerous Game," focuses on Sanger Rainsford, a skilled hunter, who ends up on an island after falling off a ship. On the island he meets Ivan and General Zaroff. The lesson the story shows significance of two types of classes, hunters and the hunted. Even though it conveys a sense of more than two classes, but the truth is that there are only two…

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    In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the protagonist is Rainsford. He is a big game hunter. In the beginning of the story Whitney says to Rainsford that maybe animals can feel something besides just fear then Rainsford says to Whitney “Don’t talk rot, Whitney, You’re a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how the jaguar feels?”(6). This shows that Rainsford is an arrogant human being, but can core beliefs change when somebody’s life is threatened? Rainsford…

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    The most dangerous in each article was the conflicts in “The Most Dangerous Games”, “Liberty”, and “Harrisonburg Bergeron”. Each of the articles have a conflict that have a life, or death consequences. Here are the life, or death conflict and consequences. In “The most dangerous game”, the life or death consequence one was with Rainsfod and Whitney. They both arrived at an island that already had a bad reputation. It was a bad reputation because as soon they get there they hear two gunshots.…

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    learning. In the story "The Most Dangerous Game" a experienced hunter Rainsford that gets trapped on an island and finds a hunter that hunts people for fun and Rainsford is one of the people that are getting hunted. Rainsford sets traps and hides to win. He ends up jumping off a cliff and swimming back to Zaroff's castle. And ends up fighting him to see who sleeps in the bed and who gets fed to the dogs. Richard Connell uses mood/tone in his story “The Most Dangerous Game” to convey the theme of…

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    14. Victor - It 's not a shock that he is leaving the game this week, but his gameplay made no sense. He won roadkill and blabbed to the entire house that he won. If he had no exposed himelf, maybe Paulie would have used the veto on Tiffany and he would be safe from eviction this week. He thinks he is safe homehow after his ally just left the house in a 7-4 vote. He could win buyback, but the odds are of him leaving barring winning head of househould. 13. Frank - Frank was at the top of my…

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    While Rainsford was rapidly running in the forest with the fear of getting caught he ran toward this Shack, while walking in, he had found the most amazing thing which was supplies with things that could help him get away he was so happy but then he started to hear footsteps, could it be was this all just a trap, would he be able to get away or was it to late.... “Rainsford I know you’re in there come out ,come out wherever you are” said General Zaroff in a evil kind of voice. While Rainsford…

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