Dangerous Liaisons

Where does one draw the line in hunting? Does hunting go as far as searching for prey such as animals or does transfer into a deeper conception such as humans? Or is it just one’s desire to hunt anything and everything? “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connell, creates a suspenseful mood in the story. A hunter, General Zaroff hunts humans, such as Rainsford as a game. This short story uses strong characterization as a contributor to the mood, although the setting creates a stronger…

“Civilized, and you shoot down men?” (P. 8). In The Most Dangerous Game, written by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford, a well respected hunter falls off his yacht in the caribbean while passing Ship Trap island. He swims to the island and comes across a cossack named General Zaroff. Coincidentally, Zaroff is a hunter himself and invites Rainsford to come along with him on a hunt. Zaroff is not a traditional hunter though, he became bored of hunting traditional game and instead moved on to…

In the story “The Most Dangerous Game”, written by Richard Connell, the setting functions and acts as a character. The setting acts as a character in the story because it adds suspense to the story. To add suspense to the story the author will often use flashbacks and foreshadowing. In this story the author uses foreshadowing to add suspense. In the beginning of the story, Whitney says that sailors have a superstition about Ship Trap Island. She says that the island has an eerie and mysterious…

In his riveting short story "The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell effectively entwines mystery and intrigue into the internal and external conflicts Rainsford faces against nature, himself, and General Zaroff. First, Rainsford struggles against his environment after he falls into the sea. Fighting the water, Rainsford tries to stay above the surface long enough to cry out to the yacht, but "the wash from the speeding yacht [slaps] him in the face and the salt water in his open mouth [makes]…

Many people enjoy hunting, they love the thrill and tracking down their prey hunting is a very open sport to all people they hunt big game, waterfowl, and small game. People hunt all over the world it is a worldwide sport. In the story “the most dangerous game” Written by Richard Connell two men who have similar interests get together and something very interesting happens next. A man named Rainsford is a hunter who really doesn't view the world quite right he believes that there are two kinds…

Imagine yourself on an island alone. What would you do to survive? How would you do it? In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell, who captivates the reader into the terrifying story of an innocent man being hunted. The author uses diction and symbolism to show readers an interesting storyline. First, Richard Connell uses diction to give a more comprehensive understanding of the story. The author used the word uncanny to show that General Zaroff has instinctive powers. For…

In a plot review of creative writing student J.R. Johnson’s story “The Bitter Hunt”, all five basic elements of Gustav Freitag’s Pyramid structure were present. Situation: Three buddies have gone on a hunting and camping trip in the desert landscape that surrounds Tucson in Arizona. After three days and very little success, the blame begins to shift to Jeep traffic and the illegal immigrant “invasion” which has scarred the environment. The conflict is further affirmed by a Border Patrol…

Gilligan’s Island was much different than the “Most Dangerous Game.” In Gilligan's Island, shipwrecked on the shore, and all the passengers were washed up to the shore, when in “The Most Dangerous Game,” only Rainsford landed on the shore. The overall aspect of the story was very similar, but if you look at the smaller details you will understand that there are more differences than similarities. The setting is in the same general area, a mysterious island in the middle of nowhere. The…

Rainsford was dragging General Zaroff’s corpse across the bedroom floor with a wide grin on his face. He’d done it, he had won the game that other’s had attempted and lost. WHen he reached the window, he let the dead body drop to the floor as he opened the window and proceeded to throw him out, listening for the thud of the body hitting the hard ground. He smirked at the thought of the dogs devouring the dead body. No one ever wins, huh? Looks like karma found it’s way back to you. Rainsford…

the short story The Most Dangerous Game and in the movie The Hunger Games, I think the plot’s are very similar. Both the story and the movie have rules that people must follow to win their game, and in each one, the main characters overcome and outsmart the game. They outsmart the game by using their minds to have strategies, the rules of the game are similar, and the characters overcame and won their game. To start off with, the main characters in both The Most Dangerous Game and The Hunger…