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    wary and the Bolero are such a short range weapon"-- Conservative, rock star and bow hunter, Ted Nudgent. There are many benefits of bowhunting, it improves hand-eye coordination, it increase strength, it is a good exercise, get very lean meat, most important of all, it is very therapeutic. Whether you're in your stand or shooting away arrows in your backyard, archery can relieve stress and act as an outlet for internal pressure. Bowhunting can act sort of like a stress ball, except Instea…

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    Terror, anxiety, and the struggle to survive seem to come alive in “The Most Dangerous Game” an exhilarating short story by Richard Connell. The author makes the story a movie in one’s head through the immaculate use of figurative language and an immense amount of details. He does this so well that you can picture every move of the main character when they are in difficult situations. In this short story, the mood starts off when the protagonist, Rainsford, tries to: “peer through the dank…

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    choose to survive,but what would you choose? In this story rainsford our protagonist chooses to try and survive from the game General Zaroff,-our antagonist- made because he thought hunting animals weren’t challenging or fun enough. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” author Richard Connell uses foreshadowing to create suspense.In this quote “The old charts call it ship trap island…” the author makes it clear to the reader that not many ships get out alive or at all off this island. A…

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    it have to be suspenseful? What about emotional? Or perhaps the thing that makes a good story is the characters. Any story that ever hopes to be considered “great” must have great characters. Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” has just that, but what’s more, his characters change. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford completely changes his personality about hunting. To begin , at the start of the story, Rainsford doesn’t care in the slightest how the animal being hunted feels. This is…

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    Have you ever felt the adrenaline while hunting? The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell takes hunting to the max for an ultimate rush… hunting humans. Zaroff demonstrates that he is one dangerous, determined and rich person. First, Zaroff is a dangerous man because he decides to hunt humans. “Civilized? And you shoot down men(pg 226)?” proves that he wants to hunt more than animals because he wants a real competition. He also states that if the one that's going to be hunted refuses, they…

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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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    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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    General Zaroff

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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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