Mickie Most

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…

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, written by Richard Connell, is very suspenseful. In the story, the main character, Rainsford, falls off his yacht and ends up on “Ship Trap Island”. After reaching the surface of “Ship Trap Island”, he meets a man, General Zaroff, and finds out his game is hunting and killing people. He has to survive on his own not knowing if that day would be his last. Will Rainsford survive or will be come to the end of his days? Rainsford is on his yacht…

People all over the world run into experiences that land them into life or death situations. Many people go through survival experiences when they are forced into that position that is irrelevant to the person’s choices. For that reason, people should not be held accountable for life or death situations that are unforeseeable. Rainsford was being hunted mercilessly through a jungle by a man called Zaroff, and Rainsford had reached the point of no return there for killing General Zaroff in his…

A myriad of literary devices is incorporated into The Most Dangerous Game in order to create the story. One of the most noteworthy relationships I noticed between devices was the setting, conflict, and structure. In the Most Dangerous game, the conflict would not be feasible without the setting. The setting and the conflict both contribute to the cat and mouse structure that is set up throughout the short story. Saki intricately weaves the setting, conflict, and structure together while using…

Without conflict there would be no plot; without a plot there is no story. Conflict is one of the most important elements of fictional literature. The three types, man versus man, man versus himself, and man versus nature appear countless times throughout the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Rainsford engages in a man versus man problem with General Zaroff while they hunt each other. Furthermore, Rainsford fights with nature while he tries to survive in the wilderness.…

In 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…

Orville Hodge Scandal Some cases are harder to solve for instance the Orville Hodge Scandal. Orville Hodge ran for and won state auditor in 1952. Hodge actually wanted to be governor, but other party officials persuaded him into becoming the state auditor instead. Before Hodge became the state auditor he was a board member of Madison County; he also previously served three terms in the Illinois General Hall Assembly (Nunes Illinois 67). In 1947 Hodge helped craft legislation basic property tax…

Since 2002, Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, is called as the world most livable city and the term livability has become so widely and used differently due to numerous rankings of livability has been studied(ABC.au 2014). However, most of the surveys ( see for instance liveablecity.org 2014) use the livability term to describe the quality of life and characteristics of each city which makes it livable. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s global livability survey, there is a…

Jason a man of dreams and hope for everyone. Jason went to Africa not looking really for anything, but that all changed when he went to Uganda. Jason went to Uganda and he lived with the kids and he saw what they going through and he wanted to help. He wanted to help find a voice to the kids who didn't seem to have one. He wanted to help some kids come out of a war that was going on in uganda. This war was lead by a man named Joseph Kony and he is believed to be a terrible man. Joseph Kony…

were different, she would most likely not be a tragic hero. Elizabeth Keen, known as Liz, had an unusual childhood, and her upbringing connects to why she is the way that she is. In the beginning of the show, Liz, believed that she had a mostly normal childhood for the exception of being adopted. Raymond Reddington—Red— entered her life mysteriously to share some information from her…