“The Most Dangerous Game”, a short story by Richard Connell, is about… Sanger Rainsford that has lived his life hunting, but abruptly becoming the hunted. By a man named General Zaroff that made a game where he hunts human beings. General Zaroff was also grew up hunting. When Rainsford entered his dining, the hall was bewildering by all the heads of animals and the tasteful silver, linens, and china. Soon after he forced Mr. Rainsford to play his game, he started playing with Rainsford by smiling before he saw him on the tree and when Rainsford arrived in his bedroom, he didn’t act defeated he said someone will be sleeping in this…
In stories, "Fourth of July" and "Shooting an Elephant", the main characters' experience a conflict within themselves. Without these conflicts, it would be hard for the authors' to support their narrative point.…
Rainsford headed home to his family, but ever since the “Man Hunt” he has been a different man. He acted differently ever since he came back home. He kept himself; he always was in his study, and just sits there. All his meals got sent to his study. He lost his job because he never came in. The family was running low on food, and they needed someone to go out hunting. Rainsford wife went out hunting for food. Sooner or later Rainsford wife divorced him, because he did nothing around the house but stay in his study.…
Often times, we endure problems within ourselves that can either be solved or left alone to embrace. Whether it is mental or physical, many of us find it natural to undergo inner-conflict. In the two passages, “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “Quicksand,” the authors provide the audience with a theme that connects them both. After uncovering their internal conflict, they eventually decided to unknowingly distract themselves from the issue. This includes the way the authors utilized the setting and characters to convey their theme. When dealing with inner-conflict, the theme is developed by expressing personal past issues, discovering new people, and ultimately uncovering a sudden romance.…
In an action movie, producers and directors add certain music to certain scenes to make them more suspenseful, sad, etc. Many authors add details to a story about the setting to accomplish the same goal. In the story, Most Dangerous Game, the author adds many details about the dark night, General Zaroff’s mansion, and the jungle to add more suspense, or terror, to the story.…
The course of nature is altered by many types of conflicts that emerge throughout the play. The…
In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the story's protagonist Sanger Rainsford is hunted throughout the jungle of an uninhabited island, by General Zaroff a man who is fixated on hunting humans for sport. In the short story “Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton, an imperious, semi-barbaric king rules over his kingdom with an iron fist, when his daughter falls in love with a young man he uses this opportunity to put the man in a public arena, where his is given the option of marriage or death. Both authors create villainous characters…
For example, the author states, “His journal entry for January 11, 1991, begins “A very fateful day.” After traveling some distance south, he beached the canoe on a sandbar far from shore to observe the powerful tides. An hour later violent gusts started blowing down from the desert, and the wind and tidal rips conspired to carry him out to sea. The water by this time was a chaos of whitecaps that threatened to swamp and capsize his tiny craft. The wind increased to gale force. The whitecaps grew into high, breaking waves. “In great frustration,” the journal reads, he screams and beats canoe with oar. The oar breaks. Alex has one spare oar. He calms himself. If loses second oar is dead. Finally through extreme effort and much cursing he manages to beach canoe on jetty and collapses exhausted on sand at sundown. This incident led Alexander to decide to abandon canoe and return north” (Krakauer 26). This example shows how nature is a relentless part of the world because despite what Alex did or tried to do nature kept destroying his canoe. This teaches him a lesson that everything you do in life happens for a…
Conflict is a key factor presented in life whether we try to avoid it or not. In most cases the battle is fought against yourself. In the poems “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin and “Traveling through the Dark” by William Stafford, the poets both focus on animals and self confrontation in humans. Descriptive language and the overall theme provides the reader with the insight necessary to understand the speaker’s psychology as they are driven beyond the boundaries of what’s morally right and wrong.…
Most stories and novels have plots. But there are some which have no plots. To these belong stories and poems describing nature. It is difficult to trace the plots in the so-called "novels of ideas" and stories presenting the stream of consciousness, since the thoughts of the…
Stories are told in many styles, through different medias; all which are to entertain or educate its audience. Christopher Booker, the author of the book 'The Seven Basic Plots', introduces the idea of the seven basics categories of any story told. The seven basic archetypes are Over Coming the Monster, Rags to Riches, The Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy, Rebirth and Tragedy. Tragedy as one of the seven archetypes, are found in any type of stories; from the most recent published novel to the almost forgotten ancient myths of the earth. Tragedy is mostly used to describe when there is a death in the story, but which the term ‘tragedy’ can also be used to describe when the character has fallen into a lower state. It is better defined when there is a downfall of the main character in the story. In all the stories which are categorized under tragedy, has one thing in common. It is that those characters have a tragic flaw; that influences the character to their downfall. The tragic flaw for each character is different. It is influenced by many factors, such as family and the environment they are exposed to. These influences lead to the death of the eternal love of Romeo and Juliet, or even the life of a school girl, Alaska; in Looking for Alaska.…
Every day in real life we go through a many struggles ranging from man vs. man, man vs. himself and even man vs. nature. The most common struggle we all face is that of man versus man. In the short stories “Cathedral” by Raymond Carter and Ernest Hemmingway’s “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” the main principal of the story is that of man versus man. In both short stories 3 characters are used, but in each story each character is completely different than the other. “Cathedral” and “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” share similarities and differences with the main principal of man versus man and the reasoning behind why one man is against the other. Both stories also share similarities and differences in their setting and the most significant differences both stories have is the resolution.…
Throughout all of history there has always been drama within stories. These stories hold virtue and truth, which make them classics and legends. Each story that has been told holds an aspect that can relate to any individual that reads its. Its main theme has always been to overcome the obstacles that come in our way, each time we see this we get a sense that we’ve been there, that we can learn from this book on how to succeed in such trials. The problem that comes into play is not an obstacle from an exterior block, but one from within. Through many stories there are heroes and protagonists that must fight the villain or antagonists, through all this we learn the battles one must endure. Yet through this, to reach such end the protagonist…
Twist at the end: There is an overwhelming sense in the naturalist stories and novels that nature is not affected by human struggle. The key themes, survival, determinism, violence, and taboo, have been ideally portrayed in all the works of this literature genre (Alphonse, 2011).…
With every passage the lady thinks of, it was obvious concerning how her psychological torment she persevered was assuming control over her brain and conduct as the days passed. This backdrop has a sort of sub design in an alternate shade, an especially chafing one, therefor it can just find in specific lights, and not unmistakably at that point. Strife is a typical piece of regular daily existence and is an issue that everybody faces. It is characterized as a condition of battle or battle caused by the genuine or saw resistance or danger of requirements, values, intrigue, status and power. Struggle is additionally an essential, normal and vital component in stories. It enables the writer to include energy and anticipation in this way making the story engaging for perusers. In stories, struggle is named any trouble or issue that includes the characters and more often than not happens in the organizations of a character restricting them self, a character contradicting another and a character contradicting a protest. The delineates clashes and represents the different kinds of…