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    Have you ever thought about animals and how they feel. Possibly about the food chain in 7th grade science class? “The Most Dangerous Game” makes a clear statement about how man plays a huge factor in the natural world to animals. In this book there is a clear sense of the author saying the natural world should be contained. In The “Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a story about a man named Rainsford that falls off a boat and swims to an island where a man named General Zaroff hunts…

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    In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell,three types of conflicts are used to give a thrilling feeling, such man vs nature, man vs man and man vs himself. Conflicts like rainsford having to swim to get to the island. Also He had to face a challenge that he have to defeat a hunter hunting him. He then have to learn to control his temper and think straight. As Rainsford hears a loud bang from the distance he then balanced himself in the balcony until he realize…

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    Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, General Sanger Rainsford was the main character. In the story the main idea is that there are two types of people in the world, “The hunter and the huntees”. There is a conflict when General Sanger Rainsford meets a cossack named General Zaroff. General Zaroff claims that he is the best hunter in the world and ended up getting bored hunting big game. General Zaroff is also a bit confidence…

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    In the story, The Most Dangerous Game, there are three characters that have a passion for hunting, yet the three hunters share similar and different viewpoints on the sport. In the beginning of the story, two of the hunters, Whitney and Rainsford are discussing their personal views of hunting. Whitney feels that when you are hunting an animal, that the animals have feelings for being hunted. He thinks that every being has the fear of pain and death. He says this on page 26 “Even so, I rather…

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    Many stories can have characters that are similar in multiple ways. A way two characters can be similar is by the way they change. The character Alice in the story “Alice” changes fairly identical to how Sanger Rainsford changes in “The Most Dangerous Game”. Both experience a dynamic approvable alteration from the beginning to the end of the story. In Alice, Alice is described to live in a run down house, “flies buzzed in and out of the always-open door...”(line 7), “dim rank-smelling…

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    Animal Essay Most Dangerous Game Animal: Zaroff Introduction: For some people, getting past a certain thought, idea, or way of life is hard. It is hard to get past what’s on your brain and what you have been living by. Thesis: In The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell, and The Interlopers, by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki), some of the main characters are blinded by their animal nature and what they are used to, which leads to all of their deaths as a result. TS: Zaroff is like an animal…

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    “The most dangerous games” Rainsford can be described as an active, fearless and talented person. Rainsford can be described as an active, fearless and talented person. Rainsford is active because he is really fast and quick at anything. This is seen in the story when it says “Then he ran for his life. The hounds raised their voices as they hit the fresh scent” “When he saw or heard someone getting him he ran for it he kept going until he lost them”. He can also be described as fearless because…

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    who teaches him how to walk and pushes him to his limits to achieve great things which in the end, takes his life. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is another short story that revolves around an isnad landed “ship-trap island.” A dangerous shady man by the name of General Zaroff along with his brute of a partner ivan take on their typical routine of man hunting as a game, but this time they meet an unexpectedly strong opponent by the name of Rainsford…

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    “The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less, a mask.” -Agatha Christie People only know what you show them about yourself, and when you finally show your true colors, it can come as quite a surprise to most. In the stories The Most Dangerous Game and Porphyria’s Lover both of the main characters experience great twists in another’s seemingly mild personality. The authors use characterization and dialogue(in the case of Porphyria’s lover it’s more an inner monologue) to portray that…

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    In Richard Connell's short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” is about the hunter and the hunted. Later in the story it becomes ironic when the hunter becomes the hunted. The story turns into a competition for survival. The author uses the story to present three conflicts for the main character that eventually change him. Rainsford has conflicts with other people, nature, and himself. The main conflict of the story is man versus man. The first conflict in the story is between Rainsford and…

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