Dangerous Liaisons

Connell,both master authors who were so gifted that they were able to make you feel any kind of emotion just by using very descriptive forms of words,known as imagery. A good example of one of them using imagery was in Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”,when at one point early on in the story,Richard described the night as “dank”,and “tropical”,and how it “pressed its thick ,warm blackness in aboard the yacht.” Connell really made you feel like you were out on that yacht with Rainsford…

In Richard Connell's short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” is about the hunter and the hunted. Later in the story it becomes ironic when the hunter becomes the hunted. The story turns into a competition for survival. The author uses the story to present three conflicts for the main character that eventually change him. Rainsford has conflicts with other people, nature, and himself. The main conflict of the story is man versus man. The first conflict in the story is between Rainsford and…

Fear: Being hunted by another human. After falling off a yacht into the ocean and ending up stranded on an island with a human hunter, Rainsford has to try and survive three days while being chased down by an evil murderer called General Zaroff. After hunting all his life, Rainsford won’t ever hunt again because of his emotional and physical experience’s on Ship-Trap Island. If Rainsford stays on Ship-Trap Island, he will not have to search for food or find shelter. Rainsford knows there is food…

In the book Into the Killing Seas by Michael P. Spradlin, two boys, Patrick and his younger brother Teddy are bound from their parents due to the war. Trying to get reunited with their parents, Patrick and Teddy get smuggled on a ship called the USS Indianapolis by their marine friend Benny. On their way to Leyte their ship gets torpedoed by the Japanese and Patrick, Benny and Teddy had to quickly evacuate. When they got off of the ship Benny, Patrick and Teddy had to survive on a raft, on top…

what humans possess. Reason is what distinguishes humans apart form animals. Both, Rainsford and Zaroff share similar logic but from opposing views. Rainsford is strongly against the murder of humans merely for sport, whilst Zaroff craves a more "dangerous game” with ingrained reason for an onerous test. Although, Rainsford goes against his own belief and kills Zaroff, which goes to show you are unable to have any morals en-order to succeed then to climactically…

In the fictional short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Rainsford has several conflicts with General Zaroff. The conflicts are both physical and mental. Not only does General Zaroff physically hunt Rainsford in the jungle, but Zaroff also argues that hunting humans for sport is not considered murder. These conflicts are used to build suspense throughout the story. The most suspenseful parts of the story are when General Zaroff is hunting Rainsford in the jungle, and through…

movie taking place in Old Western times where a notorious murderer comes back to town to seek revenge on the marshal. The Most Dangerous Game, a brilliant short story about a world renowned hunter falling off of his yacht and taking shore on a remote island where he finds a strange man that hunts the most cunning animal there is—humans. Although High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are different, they are strikingly similar in more ways than one. The patterns in the short story and the…

When readers experience a feeling of helplessness, suspense is created. At the beginning of the story Rainsford falls off the yacht and is left in the sea. When readers realize “the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean sea was closed over his head” (15), they recognize this as a hopeless situation. Readers hope the boat will turn around and save Rainsford but know it is gone. Hoping he will not drown, readers can feel Rainsford’s desperation. Likewise, later in the story Rainsford climbs a tree to…

Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox Parker Topham Mountain View High School The American Revolution was a time when great heroes were born. Heroes like George Washington, Paul Revere, and Samuel Adams. Another hero, although a little less well known, but still very important, was Francis Marion. Marion’s heroic acts that helped turn the tides of the war include: disrupting enemy supply trains, distracting the British troops, and inspiring the local rebels. Francis Marion was a plantation owner in…

Many stories can have characters that are similar in multiple ways. A way two characters can be similar is by the way they change. The character Alice in the story “Alice” changes fairly identical to how Sanger Rainsford changes in “The Most Dangerous Game”. Both experience a dynamic approvable alteration from the beginning to the end of the story. In Alice, Alice is described to live in a run down house, “flies buzzed in and out of the always-open door...”(line 7), “dim rank-smelling…