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    Rainsford… when he is telling his opinions or outlooks on life, or when he hears a peculiar sound in the distance, or when he is in normal conversation it can show the attributes of his character. In Connell’s story “The Most Dangerous Game” the main character Rainsford has can be described in many ways sometimes closed minded sometimes educated but all of these show what he is.. a hunter. As a hunter rainsford is educated while closed minded and down to earth. Rainsford is a very closed minded

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    Almost everyone in the world has gone through a situation that they didn’t want to be in. In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the main character, Rainsford, falls overboard off his ship after hearing gunshots from somewhere in the distance. As he fell, “His cry was cut short by the water engulfing him” Rainsford being both intelligent and a pro hunter, follows the sound of the gunshot fire to safety of land to save his own life. From previous experience of hunting, he knows that there's

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    The story of ¨The Most Dangerous Game¨ is that Rainsford and a female companion was on a yacht in the Atlantic ocean sailing to Rio. In the night, when he heard three gunshots off in the distance, so he went to the side and leaned over the side a little too far and fell off the boat. He tried to swim back to the boat but it was traveling too fast for him to keep up with. He decided to swim toward the sound of the shots. When he was at the place where he heard the shots he was walking up on to an

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    I will be comparing the video verion of The Most Dangerous Game to the story. I will be telling what was the same , and what was different . By comparing and contrasting the story to the movie. I will be addressing these similarities and differences in three catigories characters , events , and setting of the Most Dangerous Game. I will talk about each of the catigories in three separate paragraphs. And I will be comparing the movie to the story and the story to the movie.

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    They included thrilling adventures, saddening romances, murder, as well as out of this world fantasies. Out of these numerous stories, there is one that will remain a fascinating and thrilling story - that is ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ by Richard Connell. To me ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ encompasses multiple

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    “The world is made up of two classes—the hunters and the huntees,” (p. 1, 2). At the beginning of “The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford and Whitney chat on the deck of the boat. Rainsford believes in the above quote, and he tells this to Whitney with confidence. I would usually not delve into the deeper meaning of this quote, but because of the negative mood portrayed surrounding these words, I knew they must bear deeper meaning. This example occurs to be one of the many times Connell uses the mood

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    In The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, Rainsford learns a very important lesson about assuming. Rainsford was a hunter that said that it doesn’t matter if he and Whitney hunt the jaguar because the jaguar doesn’t really know what is happening. Later in the story, Rainsford finds out what it really feels like as a huntee’s and realizes that he should not have assumed the feelings of the animal. As Connell said on page 55, “Don’t talk rot, Whitney,” said Rainsford. “You’re a big-game hunter

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    “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell is a fictional short story about survival that stretches the truths of morality, expresses the different perceptions a mind can pertain, and reveals that first impressions can land as far away from the truth as a lie. After falling off his yacht on his way towards the Amazon, an established hunter swims to the shore of an unsettling and disreputable island, searching for a way to return to his original plans. Had he arrived any other island, this hunter

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    What excatly is suspense? The story “The Most Dangerous Game” by the author Richard Connell uses multiple ways or suspense. Just in case the reader doesn’t know what suspense is, I’ll explain. Suspense can have many definitions. The way I will be using it is by how the author grabs the reader into the book. For example, in “Little Red Riding Hood” the reader would say the suspence is when the wolf starts pretending like the grandmother and there is conflict between himself and Little Red. In this

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    The most dangerous game is a game that takes place on ship-trap island in the caribbean. The creator of the game is general Zaroff . The victim who has who has to win the game is named Rainsford. Since Rainsford wrecked his ship it caused him to meet Zaroff and play and win the most dangerous game. While Rainsford was traveling the amazon by boat he ended up wrecking his boat, then he was stranded on Ship Trap island. Rainsfords finds a large home where Ivan, a servant, and general

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