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QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions. /32

1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2 it was long minute, as in the minute took so long like a year. 2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2 ﻿Rainsford was angry with Zaroff and killed him when they meet up at the house in Zaroff's room. 3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? /1 Caribbean Sea﻿. 4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2 ﻿Zaroff's parents were very rich and he was in the military. 5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1 ﻿Zaroff promises Rainsford a ride to a island close to a town, but makes him promise to not talk about what goes on the island. 6. What happened to Lazarus? /2 ﻿Lazarus died when he chased a sailor into "The Swamp of Death" and followed the sailor right into quick sand. 7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1 ﻿Rainsford spends his night in a tree after making a tricky trail for Zaroff to follow. 8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? /1 ﻿Quarter of a million acres. 9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1 ﻿So it makes it harder for him to find Zaroff because the moccasins to leave much of a foot print. 10. What caus﻿ed Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. /3 ﻿He believed it that Zaroff knew because he looked up and smiled and walked away. I think he was right because Zaroff wanted play with him and make it more interesting for himself. 11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2 ﻿Zaroff has a lighthouse that he turns on to lures boats in and the sailors swim to the island; Zaroff trains the sailors for when he hunts them. 12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2 ﻿Zaroff has a show down with Rainsford, Zaroff gets killed and fed to the dogs. 13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? /2 ﻿Zaroff was surprised by it and he had seen it before. 14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2 ﻿Swims from a boat to an island, he runs in the hunt the whole time. 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 Rainsford did not have much feelings to killing animal, then after he finds out Zaroff hunts humans, Rainsford doesn't like the idea of hunting human and becomes more respectful when he hunts. 16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3 ﻿When he says the sailors get nervous and jumpy when they sail near the island.

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Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: T he Most Dangerous Game Point of View: Third person

Protagonist: Sager Rainsford

What type of character is the Protagonist? Round Character Dynamic Character

Antagonist: General Zaroff

Describe the setting: (time, place, mood and atmosphere) 1924, Ship-Trap island, Dangerous.

Type of Conflict: Man vs. Man

Describe the main conflict: Zaroff hunts Rainsford on a island and Rainsford kills Zaroff.

Describe the Climax of the Story: When Rainsford jumps into the water and then re-appears in Zaroff's bedroom.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? He has an understanding of what fear is like to be hunted.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. To be hunted is very dangerous but to hunt and then realize how the hunted feel is scary.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? One man is the hunter and the other man is the huntee.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The change in Rainsford from the begining to the end of the story

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile: Trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its blackness in upon the yacht. He strained his eyes in the direction from which the reports had come but it was like trying to see through a blanket

Metaphor: He strained his eyes in the direction from which the reports had come but it was like trying to see through a blanket

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Personification:

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Symbol: Hunting - Rainsford and Zaroff are both great hunters.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Foreshadowing (give both elements): Zaroff talks about how great of a hunter he is - this is forshadowing to the end of the story when Zaroff dies.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Irony: Zaroff talks about how he has hunted all of these animals and men and then he gets hunted.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Imagery: Rainsford sprang up and moved quickly to the rail, mystified. He strained his eyes in the direction from which the reports had come, but it was like trying to see through a blanket. He leaped upon the rail and balanced himself there, to get greater elevation; his pipe, striking a rope, was knocked from his mouth. He lunged for it; a short, hoarse cry came from his lips as he realized he had reached too far and had lost his balance. The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea dosed over his head.

Completion 4.5/5 Content 7.5/10 Effort 4.5/5

total 16.5/20

Please complete the following assignment: Assignment #4 Paragraph: What aspects of human nature are examined in the story "The Most Dangerous Game"?

In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, human nature is showed through cruel, pain, and adrenaline. Rainsford and General Zaroff are both excellent hunters, but Zaroff gets bored of hunting normal animals; Zaroff tells Rainsford what he hunts and how he lures them onto the island. First, when Rainsford falls of the ship and swims to the island called “Ship-Trapped” and meets Zaroff, he finds out that he is a hunter and also finds out that he hunts sailors that he traps “‘They indicate a channel,’ he said, ‘where there's none; giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as I crush this nut.’ He dropped a walnut on the hardwood floor and brought his heel grinding down on it. ‘Oh, yes,’ he said, casually, as if in answer to a question, ‘I have electricity. We try to be civilized here.’” (pg.32). Second, Rainsford flees right away into the forest on the island and sets a diversion path for Zaroff to follow; he see’s that he has found where he was hiding, Rainsford takes off and puts his knife to use and sets a trap for when Zaroff. Zaroff springs the trap and his shoulder gets injured. Thirdly, Rainsford runs away from dogs, quicksand and jumps into the ocean; he reappears in Zaroff’s bedroom to end his hunting career. Rainsford has a show down with Zaroff and wins; he gives the dogs Zaroff’s body play with and eat. Therefore, human nature takes many turns, sometimes it is going to hurt like what all those sailors went through.

5.5/6 Well Done Steve!