Dangerous Minds

Some people in the world are flat out crazy; they are so crazy it would seem that they need a mental facility. (Authors & Characters) Zaroff, from “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, and Montresor, from “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, are both a perfect example of this craziness. (Cites The Stories) In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Zaroff gets bored hunting animals, so he moves to an island, known as Ship Trap Island, to put human life in jeopardy of death. Montresor, from…

back of your mind, something is telling you to not believe it’s actually happening, what would you do? Would you immediately take action or dismiss the situation and not believe it’s happening? After reading chapters four and five of Lauren Slater’s book, Opening Skinner’s Box, it explains both the meaning of the diffusion of responsibility and cognitive dissonance. The connection between these two chapters show the human mind can be such a powerful and curious thing, but can be dangerous as…

Rainsford is the main character in the short story The most dangerous game. Rainsford is a professional hunter who is going to reo to hunt when he falls of his yacht after hearing 3 gunshots off in the distance. After following the sound of the shots he washes up on the shore of ship trap island. On this island he meets zarof a hunter himself talks to rainsford how he hunts this new game which is humans shocked rainsford is forced to play his “game” which zarof starts to hunt him Rainsford is a…

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.” -Ernest Hemingway. In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, General Zaroff has hunted everything in every situation that he can imagine. He found that animals are not fun to exploit anymore. He had in many situations outsmarted and out done his pray so, he creates a new game where he hunts humans. They are smarter and have the ability to reason.…

“The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.” The Most Dangerous Game is a very well written story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Suspense and conflict fill the scenes. However, the setting is also crucial to this story. By using these literary terms, Richard Connell wrote a short story filled with excitement and thrill that no person in the right mind will be able to put down. First of all, suspense was one of the main literary elements used in this story.…

However, there are two sides to a situation, and some people believe that people with mental health problems are dangerous and should be watched every second of every day. The reasons being is because others believe that when around a person with a mental illness, they will be in danger for some reason and may be at risk. “Benevolence: persons with severe mental illness are childlike and need to be cared for” (“Watson and Corrigan” 2). Individuals believe that others are childlike and are not…

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination” (Tommy Lasorda). This rousing notion is an integral factor of the protagonist’s success in Richard Connell's “The Most Dangerous Game”. Sanger Rainsford, a famous New York Hunter, fell overboard from his hunting charter in the Caribbean. He landed on a strange island, and on it he discovered a fellow hunter by the name of General Zaroff. Zaroff used this island to hunt the ultimate game; Man. After his…

the story The Most Dangerous Game, the main character Rainsford is a well known hunter and is on his way to Rio to hunt. He thinks that animals have no understanding, the only thing that they understand is fear. Rainsford also says that there are two classes in the world, the hunters and the huntees. Thoughts on Rainsford are that he doesn’t think that animals have any feelings and he is very confident, he basically thinks he is all that. But later in the story I think his mind will change after…

According to the Webster- Merriam Dictionary, survival means “the state or fact of continuing to live or exist in spite of difficult conditions.” In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Rainsford is hunted by Zaroff and despite the many obstacles, Rainsford is able to kill him. In “My Escape from North Korea” by Hyeonseo Lee, Lee explains the details of her difficulties on avoiding getting caught by police. In “Trapped” by Aron Rolston, he gets his arm stuck under a rock and…

As I prepare to leave the high school and step into the world that is full of temptations and dangerous it is important to think about how I want to live my life. Drug is one of the most important theme in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Nurse Ratchet, the most powerful person in the ward, give patients medication(drug) to destroy and brainwash their mind. Many live in hallucination, they cannot distinguish and face the real world. In my adult life, I’ll be optimistic,…