The+most+dangerous+game

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The most dangerous game


 * Point of View: **Third person

Round and dynamic.
 * Protagonist: **Sanger Rainsford
 * What type of character is the Protagonist? **


 * Antagonist: **General Zaroff


 * Describe the setting: **It takes place on an island called “Ship-Trap Island”. It is near the Caribbean Sea. The mood is intense and it has a lot of suspense.


 * Type of Conflict: ** Man vs man


 * Describe the main conflict: **The main character, Rainsford is a hunter and he falls off his yacht into the sea. He then finds this house with another hunter living in it but he is abnormal, he likes to play this game where he hunts people. Rainsford is playing this game against him and in order to survive and leave this island he has to stay out of his sight for three days.


 * Describe the Climax of the Story: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When Rainsford finds out that he has to play the game.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?** At the start, he was saying how he doesn’t care how the animal that is being hunted feels, but i think he changes when he is the one being hunted and now he knows how they feel.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In this story, death is a game. I think what the theme is trying to say is that it really isnt. Even the main character had to learn this which i think he did at the end. Zaroff created this whole game, and when you lost, you lost your life.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I think the theme of the story is to treat animals the same as you would treat a human. So i think when Rainsford being a hunter became the one being hunted, it helped illustrate the theme because he knew how being hunted felt like.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The climax illustrates the story because what Rainsford got himself into made him think and he began to understand feel what its like to be hunted.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Metaphor:** “He lives a year in a minute.”


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Muttering and growling of the sea.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Symbol:** I think that each head of an animal the general decided to keep symbolizes the reason he started this game. The hunting of those animals started to bore him.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The general keeps talking about this game he likes to play. Also whenever he looks at Rainsford he gives an evil smile. He also said that they would go hunting together the next day which obviously meant they were going to play his game.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rainsford came to hunt but instead he was the huntee.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There was a medieval magnificence about it; it suggested a baronial hall of feudal times with its oaken panels, its high ceiling, its vast refectory table where twoscore men could sit down to eat.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In this story, General Zaroff does not understand humanity at all. He traps ships and takes the survivors and train them. Then he makes them play a game where they are being hunted by him. They have three days to survive. If the general finds them before the three days are up, they lose and he wins, which means that they lost their lives. The main character, Rainsford is a hunter himself, he didn't care about the animals he killed until he saw what the General was doing with their own species, humans. He got forced into playing the game but he won at the end. He Began to feel what it was like to be hunted everyday. It was suspenseful, he was paranoid all the time, and he didn't know if the General knew where he was or not.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. **

Completion 5/5 Effort 5/5 Content 5/5


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions. /32 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is a metaphor. He was waiting for the General to fall into his trap but he was hiding so he couldn't see him or the pit. He was waiting only for a minute, but to him, it felt more like year.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I think he is saying that even though he won the game, it isn't over till he kills the General so he is saying that just like an animal, he's still being hunted until the hunter is dead.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Caribbean Sea.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? /1 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He invested in American securities and his father was a very rich man.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff promised him that he can leave the island alive but Rainsford has to agree to say nothing of his visit on the island.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Someone who played the game before stepped into quicksand and his dog, Lazarus followed him into it.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. What happened to Lazarus? /2 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He spends his first night on a tree.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">His father had a quarter of a million acres.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? /1 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff suggests Rainsford to wear moccasins because it leaves a poorer trail.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because Zaroff was right beneath the tree and he smoked a cigarette thinking Rainsford would dislike it and he smiled like he knew Rainsford was up there the he carelessly walks away.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. /3 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ships that come in from a storm indicate a channel but where theres none, he has giant rocks with razor edges that crush the ship.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Right when he's about to go to bed, he sees Rainsford coming from his curtain, Rainsford says that he hasn't won yet which means they fight till one of them is only alive and Rainsford won.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because he likes a challenge. He hasn't lost a single game yet and so this makes it harder to win which he likes.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? /2 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because he can easily climb trees and build things out of trees and still have the energy to run and swim back to the house.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before he lands on the island. Rainsford talks about how animals are stupid and they dont know whats going on when they are being hunted, that they don't fear pain. But once he meets the General and is put into the position of being a prey, he begins to understand what an animals life is like. They do fear pain and get scared their lives are just as precious as ours.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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.)/5 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Connell inspires fear with suspense. For example when Rainsford was hiding up in the tree, the General knew he was up there and he couldn't gone for him right then but he didn't because he wanted him for the next day. During those moments, we didn't know what was going to happen as well as Rainsford. It was very suspenseful.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3 **

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