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Point of View: The Most Dangerous Game is third person limited.

Protagonist: Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the game hunter

What type of character is the Protagonist? Mr.Rainsford is round and dynamic, logical and witty.

Antagonist: General Zaroff

Describe the setting: The story takes place during the mid 20’s to 30's, on a remote tropical island in the Caribbean called Ship-Trap Island. Most of the climax and conflict is on a small island owned by General Zaroff. The Most Dangerous Game is thrilling.

Type of Conflict:Man vs. Man: When Rainsford is fighting against General Zaroff in order to live, and the debate between them about humanity.

Describe the main conflict: The main conflict in The Most Dangerous Game is mostly on Rainsford being forced to take part in a deadly hunt against Zaroff and Ivan. Zaroff has been looking for a human who was worthy of the competition and simply playing his game, which Rainsford is.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax would be where Rainsford is being hunted by Zaroff and playing his little man vs. man game on his island.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? Rainsford outwits Zaroff by jumping into the ocean then returning to Zaroff's house.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme: The relationship between the title and the theme is very relevant, the theme of the book would be hunting. General Zaroff has made up the most dangerous hunting game that he will never feel boredom from. He created his own animal to hunt that had everything the other animals he used to hunt would lack, which made it exciting and thrilling for him in different ways everytime. His game was man vs. man and he had yet to lose.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict helps to illustrate the theme because the theme is hunting and playing a game and during the main conflict is when Rainsford is forced to play this horrid game.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile: ".. the truth was as evident as the sun that had by now pushed through the morning mists." That means that he thinks of the obvious truth that everyone can see and believe is true.

Metaphor:

" The cat was coming again to play with the mouse. " - The cat is General Zaroff and the mouse would be Rainsford. This means that the General will come back later on to hunt down Rainsford.

Personification:

-".. sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle." - Sleep and the silence of the dead world can't visit Rainsford.

Symbol:

- The hounds that Zaroff owns and sends out into the game to help him win symbolize death.

Foreshadowing (give both elements):

- The hounds that Zaroff owns and sends out into the game to help him win symbolize death.

Irony: Rainsford was a famous hunter, who wrote books and was very professional but when he arrived to Zaroff's Island, he then became the huntee of General Zaroff.

Imagery: -"There was no sound in the night as Rainsford sat there, but the muffled throb of the engine that drove the yacht swiftly through the darkness, and the swish and ripple of the wash of the propeller."

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. -  The cruelty and unhamnity are one of the human characteristics. The example of cruelty and unhumanity would be a war. As the hunting game was to kill people without any significant reason only for mere fun but wars are no fun.. just end with no significant reason for all the death.

QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions. /32

1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2- It means time for him went by very fast, and a long time seemed like nothing in his mind.

2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2- When Rainsford said that, it confirmed that he now has empathy for the animals which he has hunted, because he is now in their position. It also meant that the game was not yet over, and he still had to finish it.

3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? /1- The Carribean Sea.

4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2- Zaroff was in the army and commanded a division of Cossack cavalry. He said that after the troubles in Russia, he left the country, but unlike most other noble Russians he didn't lose any of his money because he invested in American securities.

5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1- He promised Rainsford to return him back to the mainland if he won.

6. What happened to Lazarus? /27. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1- Near a swamp in the forest, on the island. He stretched out by a tree.

8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? /1- A quarter of a million acres.

9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1- Because they do not leave a very obvious trail behind.

10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. /3-Zaroff stopped right under the tree which Rainsford was in, and took out his cigarettes as he looked up to right below where Rainsford was sitting. He smiled, blew a smoke ring and carelessly walked away in the direction which he had come from. I think Rainsford was right to believe Zaroff knew where he was, because there would be no reason to follow a very difficult path and not even bother to search closely for him. I think Zaroff did it to inspire fear in Rainsford, so he could get a rise out of him leading Rainsford to follow him and try to attack, so Zaroff could show he was more skilled than Rainsford by winning a fight.

11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2-When the ships crash into the rocks of the island, the sailors have no real choice to survive except to go on the island. Zaroff then makes them play the game.

12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2- He dies by being fed to the hounds, by Rainsford, after General Zaroff made a deal that the two of them will fight, so one will live and one will die.

13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? /2- Because what Zaroff proves he wants, is an interesting hunt, and Rainsford is giving him exactly what he wants because he said, "not many men know how to make a Malay mancatcher."

14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2- We know this, because the author describes him to be a hunter who can manage very large and difficult game to capture. Also, in the story, Rainsford can run and get away from General Zaroff efficientley because he does not get captured.

15. Discuss the state of mind of Rainsford before he lands on the island versus that after he meets the General. What is different? (Especially about how he perceives animal feelings.)/5When Rainsford is on his ship, approaching the island, he is completely fearless and has faith that he can easily manage whatever game or whatever there is on the island. He also proves that he has no empathy for the game he hunts, when he says "Who cares how a jaguar feels?" and brushing off the subject after saying that the animal has no understanding of the situation he puts it in by hunting and killing it. When he is at dinner with General Zaroff, who starts speaking of how his ideal game is humans, Rainsford proves he does actually have empathy and openly shows disagreement in what the General is choosing to do. In the end of the story when Rainsford says "I am still a beast at bay", it proves that he now has empathy for the animals which he used to hunt because he himself was then in that very position.

16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3- The author inspires fear in the reader, by instead of describing gory violence, he inspires fear through suspense and character empathy, ironically since the theme focuses closely on empathy. Connell describes scenes with alot of detail, through the eyes of the main character and makes you think how bad it really would feel if you or any human/ animal was in such a terrifying situation.

Nice work, especially since you were not here for the other literary devices documents we have done in class!

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