The Most Dangerous Game Literary Devices When is the last time that you saw a literary device? In a poem‚ or a novel? Perhaps a short story? Literary devices: we all use them‚ we all love them‚ but what can it really do for an author’s writing? When used correctly they can add character and dimension to one’s writing‚ but what some fail to remember is that even the best writers can fall extremely short to writing excellent literary elements. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game‚” Richard Connell
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“The Uneasy Game” In Richard Connell’s thrilling short story “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ an uneasy mood is constructed by Rainsford’s illusive adventure on Ship Trap Island. Many moments in the short story help build up a feeling of uneasy‚ one being when Winston uses a simile to describe the evil of the atmosphere‚ saying that the air “ was actually poisonous”‚ and that he felt a “mental chill‚ a sort of sudden dread” when the ship neared the island (Connell 1). The author makes the reader feel
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The “Most Dangerous Game” is indeed not a game for the faint hearted; real life hunger games does bring fear with the thrill. Rainsford‚ a game hunter‚ was on his yacht when he got thrown from the ship into the Caribbean sea. Rainsford swam to an island where he was awaited with a man named General Zaroff. General hunted game too‚ nevertheless the Generals game was humans‚ and Rainsford fell right into his trap. Rainsford had 3 days to survive a hunting spree by the General. If he made it 3 days
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General Zaroff in the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a narcissistic-psychopathic devil. One quotes that shows this is when the General says‚ “I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from tramp ships- lassars‚ blacks‚ chinese‚ whites‚ mongrels- a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.” This shows that General Zaroff was narcissistic because all of the people he lists as scum of the Earth take up the entire population of the world. He believes that he
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In a great many stories there is suspense‚ but the story “The Most Dangerous Game” has many instances of suspense to keep the reader wanting to read‚ all based on the author’s cleverness in taking advantage of human nature. The first instance is in the very beginning- the sailors arriving at “Ship-Trap Island.” Suspense is created by the reputation of the island and the emotions of the sailors. Whitney first mentions‚ “Didn’t you notice that the crew’s nerves seemed a bit jumpy today?” The suspenseful
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Rainsford When it comes down to your morals‚ how far would you go to survive? Morals are something you live by and can be good or bad‚ but everybody has them. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell‚ the main character Sanger Rainsford is a dynamic character who is forced to change his own beliefs through relationship‚ conflict‚ and survival. For example‚ Whitney says‚ “I’d rather think they fear one thing- Fear‚ the fear of pain‚ and the fear of death.” At this time in
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story through the eyes of one character. If “The Most Dangerous Game” were told in a different perspective‚ like an objective point of view‚ the story would lose a lot of important aspects to it‚ like the thoughts and feelings of Rainsford and General Zaroff‚ and it would also lose it’s uniqueness. The point of view for this story affects the reader’s responses to the characters by helping the reader understand the characters better. When Connell writes‚ “Rainsford’s first impression was that the
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they will do some extravagant things. In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game‚” Sanger Rainsford is the person who deals with these things. The story focuses on Rainsford‚ a one time‚ big game hunter‚ and the events on an island that he swims to after falling off Whitney’s ship. On Ship-Trap Island‚ Rainsford encounters and is hunted by a deranged man named General Zaroff‚ who is a tall man with no heart‚ and likes to hunt more dangerous game. During the events on Ship-Trap Island
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reading "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell there are multiple incidents of suspense. One of these moments is Rainsford’s first encounter with a man named Ivan‚ who greeted Rainsford with pistol pointed straight at his chest. Almost immediately‚ the reader began to anticipate whether this character would die‚ survive‚ or suffer other consequences such as injury causing tension in the story. Another occurrence of suspense is when General Zaroff begins to tell of the most dangerous game‚ hence the
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next level‚ which is quite extreme. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell‚ we have the sense of man verse man‚ but also man verse nature. The question is‚ who will be defeated? Rainsford is one of the main characters in the story. He is a big time exotic animal hunter‚ who believes animals do not feel fear of any kind. The story starts out with Rainsford and a couple of
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