Most Valuable Player

“The Lottery”is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. The story is about a small idyllic town that follows traditions that their ancestors had begun, even when it is not in their best interest. Villagers convene in the square to participate in the discrete yet reasonable lottery which is ran by Mr. Summers. There is black wooden box in the center of the square where each member of the family selects a piece of paper. If a family member draws a black dot in the middle of the piece of paper…

Winning the Ultimate Prize, Death THESIS: “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson are quite different by quite similar as well. Both authors use Gambling, love and having no love as themes. Gambling in the “Lottery” is right there upfront and in your face straight from reading the title to the announcement of the winner. Lotteries are a form of gambling. In the “Rocking Horse Winner” it’s not so in your face but comes about half way when Paul the son…

‘The Navigator’ is a silent comedy produced & directed by Buster Keaton in 1924. The movie revolves around the story of a rich boy – ‘Rollo Treadway’ played by Buster Keaton and girl – ‘Betsy O’Brien’ played by Kathryn McGuire who due to unfortunate circumstances are stranded on Betsy’s father’s ship ‘Navigator’ which is drifting aimlessly in the Pacific Ocean. The movie further focuses on their struggle to survive on the ship and from the cannibal islanders. Keaton uses this plot along with…

meaning in Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game, it refers to the animals that are hunted and to the competition between General Zaroff and the hunted castoffs. The title suggest that the most dangerous game is an activity that involves challenges that test people’s strength, stamina and overall wit, “outdoor chess,” as General Zaroff describes it. However, throughout the story the word game is used as a substitute for prey; Zaroff regards human beings as the most dangerous game for they…

The book and the movie “The Fox and the Hound” are two totally different entities the only similarities the book and the movie have is that they are both the same species animals and that the fox is being hunted by Copper the hunting dog. The book depicts Todd as the sly fox who really likes the thrill of being in a chase and loves to find his equal match which is the hound named Copper. And throughout the book he finds his equal a hound dog named Copper. Tod was raised by humans after his was…

jump off the cliff into the jagged crags or stay and get eaten by the savage dogs chasing him to his demise. The author, Richard Connell, expresses how hard-work and determination beats all odds. He conveys this theme in one of his short stories, “The Most Dangerous Game.” Rainsford was a wealthy hunter who was searching for a place to hunt in the Caribbean. He fell of his yacht and swam a few miles to a nearby mysterious island. Rainsford meets a peculiar man, General Zaroff, who is also a…

The stories “Being Prey” and “The sound of Thunder” both are similar and different in ways, will describe that both have similar and different settings. In the story “Being Prey”, the setting was based on dangerous conflict, also in Being Prey the setting both had dangerous animals, in “Being Prey” it was a crocodile. In “The Sound of Thunder” the setting was based on jungles and dangerous conflicts and dangerous animals, in the sound of thunder it’s a “T-REX”!!!! So I can conclude that, both…

June 16, 2014 Thunk, thunk, thunk, the greenish-blueish water slammed against are boat as a storm rolled in. Me and my best friend Will were about to go scuba diving. The engine's roar died and me and Will got perched on the side of the boat "you ready Seth?" Will questioned "As ready as i'll ever be" I explained "3,2,1, go!" the driver announced me and Will back falled off the water was murky and cold, I almost laughed at how I sounded like darth vader whenever I…

In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, water greatly changes the main character of the story, Gene. Although a very commonly used force of change, water is shown in many different ways such as rivers and snow. In Thomas Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor, he describes snow as “clean, stark… playful, suffocating, filthy” (80). Foster writes this in order to present the reader with many different effects snow can have on someone or something. For example, in A Separate Peace, snow is…

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford, a well known hunter and author from New York City, who is traveling to Rio to go hunting with his friend and hunting partner Whitney, he falls overboard from the cruise ship. He swims to Ship-Trap Island and meets the owner, General Zaroff, an admiring fan of Rainsford’s career and also a skilled hunter. He enjoys playing a game where he hunts and kills people because he is bored of hunting animals. Rainsford…