The+most+dangerous+game

he shows the reader how evil he is through zarroffs state of mind and what he says with no remorse.
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Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: Most Dangerous Game Aaron Young July 27/2010

**Point of View:** First person accept for a little third person when describing past events or what’s going around Rainsford.

**Protagonist**: Rainsford is a hunter whose ship wrecks and if forced to fun and fight for his life.

**What type of character is the Protagonist?** He is round and dynamic because he has feelings history and depth.

**Antagonist:** Zarroff is a military general also a hunter who is bored of hunting animals because they can’t reason.

**Describe the setting: (time, place, mood and atmosphere)** The setting is on an island in the Caribbean rigged to shipwreck ships the time changes throughout the story but probably within the last ten or 15 years.

**Type of Conflict:** Man vs Man

**Describe the main conflict:** Zarroff is hunting Rainsford as a sport because he gets bored with regular hunting and in the end Rainsford kills Zarroff.

**Describe the Climax of the Story:** When Rainsford jumps off the island we think he is dead he shows up in the castle to kill Zarroff.

**How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?** Rainsford realizes what it was like to be one of the animals he once hunted ultimately changing his look on the world around him that not all animals can reason but all can fear.

**Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.** The Most Dangerous Game provides word game meaning hunt and most dangerous implies that this is the hardest thing to hunt and the hardest thing to hunt is a human because humans can reason.

**How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?** The conflict is Zarroff hunting Rainsford and that is the theme. The Most Dangerous Game would be to hunt humans and that’s what Zarroff is doing

**How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?** At the end we think he is dead but he comes back and is ready to fight making him the most dangerous game to be able to flip the hunt on the hunter.

**Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):** 1. **Simile:** "An Apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake"

2. **Metaphor:** "The night would be my eyelids"

3. **Personification:** "The Sea rumbled and hissed"

4. **Symbol:** All the animals’ heads show power from Zarroff

5. **Foreshadowing (give both elements):** When Zarroff tells Rainsford about the new game he hunts and how he will have fun hunting with him tomorrow. This foreshadows that it is Rainsford who will be hunted.

6. **Irony:** The hunter becomes the hunted.

7. **Imagery:** When Rainsford jumps off his boat and swims to the island giving image that he is extremely fit.

COMPLETION:5/5 EFFORT:4/5 CONTENT: 4/5 TOTAL: 13/15

In "The Most dangerous Game," Richard Connell examines several important aspects of human nature - conflict, search for endless fun, boredom, cruelty, and character change. Personality conflict is the main theme of the story. While the protagonist Rainsford views hunting as fun in the beginning, he gradually comes to realize that it is actually cruel and irrational. To come to this conclusion, he has to experience it himself. The antagonist Zaroff, although well-mannered and presentable, is a cruel character. His only purpose in life is to stop boredom by inventing a cruel hunting game. This aspect of General Zaroff's character develops gradually over his lifetime. At Arst, he satisfies his search for fun by hunting animals. When it stops being entertaining he switches to humans. At the end of the story, the reader is left to wonder if even Rainsford transforms into a version of the general. Could he have just left the island without killing the General? Did he kill Zaroff to teach him his own lesson back? Then, even Rainsford becomes cruel and perhaps even bored. What happens in his mind remains unknown..

5.5/6