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    “Congratulations, you have won the game.” Rainsford was a hunter who fell off his boat on the way to the Amazon Jungle. He washed up on Ship Trap Island, located in the middle of the Caribbean. There he was welcomed by the hospitality of Zaroff, a Cossack general who fought in the Russian Civil War. Zaroff was a hardcore hunter who truly only cared about hunting. After countless years of hunting animals, Zaroff wanted a bigger challenge; he wanted an animal that provided an immense challenge. He…

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    The dawn was just some hours away. My eyes were heavy. I had not slept the entire night. My back ached. I had taken an alert stance for too long. My feet were dewy wet, by brow was icy and my jaw was clenched. With a slow breath, I skimmed my surroundings. The branches straggled into view. I shifted the brush with the tip of my arrow as I lingered forward. I could feel my elbows stiffen. I hope I would be ready to shoot when time came. But I had begun to wonder whether the time would come all…

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    Jungle Heat is a complimentary cross-platform dry run, which you could use any sort of gadget or social media network. The tropics filled with oil and also gold are rotting under the assault of General Blood. Your activity is to release the indigenous riches, to tear them from the hands of the savage thiefs and also assert them on your own! The prizes of the jungle will certainly be sound and also risk-free in your storage spaces. Forward - strengthen the wall surfaces, employ soldiers, and…

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    Sitting on a cheap leather sofa in a battered living room, a bottle of whiskey on hand, surgical knife on the other, with a serene look of contemplation, Hannibal Lecter found himself staring at the unblinking eyes of a man lying in a pool of his own blood, throat slashed ear to ear. The need of forced entry was clearly effaced, resistance none, and Hannibal perceived within the minute the man opens his own door for the emissary of death, it's time to say goodbye. His own demise was expected; he…

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    “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a short story and a suspenseful thriller that deals with hunting and survival skills. Although skill is needed strategy outweighs skill everytime. In “The Most Dangerous Game it is shown when Rainsford the main character made a Malay Mancatcher ultimately hurting General Zaroff. Rainsford also shows strategy by making a Burmese Tiger Pit that he used to trap General Zaroff. He also shows strategy by leaping off a cliff into the sea. Letting…

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    Another example of shaping a person’s identity is in the book The Most Dangerous Game. The story follows a man called Rainsford an expert hunter who firmly believes that animals have no sense of feelings or emotions. In the beginning Rainsford tells his partner, “The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees. Luckily you and I are hunters.” He then falls from his boat and swims to an island where he meets the general. The general is also an expert “hunter”, but does not hunt…

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    Survival Essay Throughout life there will be setbacks and struggles that need to be overcome to succeed in life. "The Most Dangerous Game" ,written by Richard Connell, is a story of a man who falls off his yacht and swims to an island where a general, for fun, hunts humans. "A Trip to the edge of survival," written by Ron Arias, is a true story of five fishermen that get stranded at sea and lived on a ship for 144 days. Lastly, the movie, The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross, is about a girl…

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    I Strongly Agree that General Zaroff and Rainsford are completely different. General Zaroff is a Russian Big game hunter. Zaroff begins to get bored with just killing tigers, elephants and water buffalo. So then he decides to hunt the ultimate trophy animal “men”. A Cossack commands the cavalry division of the russian army until the bolsheviks revolted in 1917. They then installed a communist government and the class system. General went off and established a new world for himself on the…

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    Short Fiction Yertle the Turtle, How do people gain power? In this story there was a power thirsty turtle. This turtle’s name was Yertle. Yertle believed that he was the king over everything he could see. The way he achieved his power was by stacking up on his fellow turtles. Eventually the turtles on the bottom had grown tired. Next one belch from the bottom turtle had thrown Yertle right off his high throne. Now the turtles have no king and live freely. The Bet, How does money influence power…

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    In the realistic fiction, short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” the author’s, Richard Connell, purpose of writing the story was to entertain the readers. The story takes place on a suspenseful island that is in the middle of the ocean, called Ship-Trap Island. Throughout the story, Connell illustrates a man vs. man and a man vs. nature conflict to manifest that Stranger Rainsford is a powerful, intelligent, and persevering person. In the story, the protagonist, Stranger Rainsford, experiences…

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