An author uses literary devices to allow the reader to engage. The author uses descriptive writing to enhance the individual’s imagination. It also gives them ways to relate and a divergent way to think about writing. The three most important literary devices used in The Most Dangerous Game are similes, imagery, and foreshadowing. Richard Connell utilizes these devices to create a fun and inspiring story.…
Ender’s Game is a science fiction novel – militarily based, where the people are preparing for another invasion by extraterrestrial insectoid-like species. The book emphasizes that children are self-renewing, while being seen as ornery in their decisions and actions, all the while the lives of children are at every point contrasted with the adults around them.…
Ender’s Game is a science-fiction novel that follows a child named Ender, and his story on being trained from a early age to be a military captian to fight “buggers” that have been encountered in space by humans while exploring the universe, as he struggles to find logical reasoning as why all of the training is happening to him…
Though Money: The Unauthorized Biography & Ready Player One are vastly different books written for completely different audiences, major economic themes shine through in both pieces of literature. Money: The Unauthorized Biography is a non-fiction piece which focuses on the development of currency as we know it today, & the debunking of common inaccuracies in that history which many believe to be true. The novel, Ready Player One, is fiction in its entirety & doesn’t focus on economic themes. The novel follows the story of a teenage boy living in a not far off dystopian future, which inadvertently relays economic issues prevalent in its time period.…
Can a man be driven from humble humanity to gross inhumanity by circumstance or situation? What effect do one's choices and training have on his morals? At some point in our lives we will all be forced to answer questions similar to these, and two characters in Connell's story "The Most Dangerous Game" are not exempt from these life decisions. Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff are both wealthy, both are hunters, and eventually both men are put into situations where critical choices must be made. The choices the men make are derived from different situations, but both have similar results.…
In “The Most Dangerous Game”, the author uses many methods to develop the characters and how they see the world, themselves, and others around them. First, Rainsford gets stranded on an island after he is talking to a friend on a yacht he was on about how the hunter is dominant and how the animals hunted do not feel anything which could be foreshadowing a change in the story and what it’s based on. After he arrives on the island, Rainsford immediately goes and sees a sign of struggle in bushes and hears shots fired. This, and the way that Rainsford was able to follow the tracks of the hunter, shows that Rainsford is a fairly efficient hunter; that is, showing the audience what the main idea of the story most likely is, which the hunter vs. the hunted.…
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is about a boy who was born to be a commander in the third invasion against the Buggers. Along the way people lie to him tell him stuff to make him do what they want him to do, they use him. In the end he has the fix it all. He was the best commander anyone seen. You can be taught by anyone.…
Perhaps one of the reasons that “The Most Dangerous Game” is still read to this day may be because of the ambiguous ending that this short story has. The way the story is left off leads the reader to many different conclusions as to what happened. Perhaps the two most common inferences would be that either Rainsford realizes that he is becoming like Zaroff, or Rainsford realizes that he is nothing like Zaroff and takes comfort in this. There is much evidence that supports both of these theories.…
Apocalypse Now is based on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness which is not about Vietnam. Heart of Darkness was written in 1902 and is about a journey up the Congo River into the heart of darkest Africa to find a power-crazed white trader named Kurtz. It is conceivable that an African tribe may have treated Kurtz as a god in the early days of colonization but I find it hard to believe the Montagnard tribesmen of Cambodia would have done so in the Vietnam War. And I don't really believe that in the Vietnam War soldiers were surfing while battles raged around them.…
War has existed since the dawn of time and, since the beginning, has impacted humanity in various ways. While wars do mold and transform nations, more importantly, wars have had and will have a great impact on soldiers, those willing to sacrifice their lives for their country. The novels A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien give us a glimpse into how war has impacted soldiers and those close to them. The novel A Farewell to Arms talks of a man who falls in love with a woman he works with, a nurse in the hospital, Catherine Barkley. The narrator, Frederic Henry, meets the nurse while he is working in the army.…
Authors use many literary elements, such as figurative language, to write out the theme of their stories. In the two short stories, “Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the themes are described by literary elements. “The Cask of Amontillado” is about a man trying to get revenge by tricking another man telling him about having expensive wine. “The Most Dangerous Game” is an eccentric short story about a General who lives on an island and hunts humans. The theme of irony delineate the themes for both of the short stories.…
The idea of good and evil are sometimes represented by light and dark. Light is the guide in the dark, but dark is the evil lurking in the light. For instance, good and evil are one of those human nature that everyone has and cannot escape from. For example, a person could be bad yet still have good luck. This comes from the idea that all bad comes with good, vice versa. But there are also situations where a faulty action come with a bad consequence. The latter could be perceived as karma. Karma is the consequence, the price paid for a bad deed or the reward for a good deed. In “The Sniper,” by Liam O’Flaherty and “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, the characters in the story portray evil and good in various forms. These…
Waking up from a long nights sleep, Rainsford stretched every joint in his beaten down body and rose from Zaroft’s splendid bed…
“The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, is a narrative about Mr. Sanger Rainsford, a celebrated hunter, who finds himself on a secluded island after falling overboard a yacht. Rainsford locates a large building on the island and meets General Zaroff, who invites him to rest and replenish his health in his home. After Zaroff explains that he also enjoys hunting, he also reveals that he has discovered a new, more dangerous animal to hunt: humans. Zaroff forces Rainsford to become the hunted in order to win his freedom and return to the mainland. Connell’s central idea suggests that instinct does not always yield to reason.…
Solitude — the state of seclusion — in the modern world differs from solitude in the Romanticism era. Romanticism is a point in time within the 19th century, most known for its literature written about sadness, loss, and heartbreak. The article “The End of Solitude,” written by William Deresiewicz, addresses how solitude no longer exists today due to the access of technology. He believes the newer generations do not have moments of solitude because of their constant need for visibility, or referred to now as attention. Contrary to Deresiewicz’s claim, present-day solitude does exist.…