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    In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford outsmarted General Zaroff during the crazy man-hunt. Rainsford managed to outsmart Zaroff when he hid in the tree from him. Then when he set a trap on Zaroff, and lastly when he swam around the island so he could go hide from Zaroff in the Chateau. These three things will explain how Sanger Rainsford was successful. To start with, one reason why Rainsford was successful is because he hid in a tree. It was pretty smart

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    Most Dangerous Game Irony

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    and speaker, once said, “Most times you won’t understand how someone feels until it happens to you, until you experience the pain.” This is one of the main ideas in “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. In this story, a famous hunter, Rainsford, laughs at the animals on the other side of his weapons. At the beginning of the short story, he falls off a yacht and swims to an island, where a man named Zaroff lives, and unwittingly becomes a player in Zaroff’s “game”. Zaroff finds entertainment

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    Irony, a main focus of Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” gives multiple implications from the story’s title itself and serve as the groundwork for how the story is told sequentially. In the story the main character Rainsford is on a journey to hunt new exotic prey and the setting opens with Rainsford having a discussion with a man named Whitney. Whitney contradicts the way that Rainsford views his love for hunting as only enjoyable for the hunter. As the story progresses the

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    “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a short story. In this short story, diligence was shown throughout the story by two main characters. Those two main characters are General Zaroff and Rainsford. They both show diligence in various ways, but one shows more diligence than the other in my opinion. The word diligence means careful and persistent work or effort. In this essay I will be giving my opinion on who I believe shows the most diligence throughout the short story. In my opinion

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    the water to get away from the hunter. In the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford was a hunter taking a boat ride. When Rainsford fell off the boat and hearing a pistol shot swam toward the shot to get help him find his way home. Then met Ivan the giant, and General Zaroff who live in a big house. General Zaroff talks about hunting and the deadly hunting game. Rainsford is forced to play the game and kills General Zaroff and Ivan. Rainsford kills both of the

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    short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the main character Rainsford shows these skills of resourcefulness as he tries to survive the hunt. Rainsford is an experienced big game hunter that is trapped on a tropical jungle covered island with another big game hunter, General Zaroff. Zaroff has gained so much experience in hunting, due to this he has lost interest in hunting animals and now enjoys the hunt of humans. Rainsford is put in the position to be torched or participate in a game of hunting. When

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    When I first read “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell in eighth grade, the plot reminded me of the movie Predators. In the movie, a group of criminals, mercenaries, and other dangerous individuals find themselves stranded on an alien planet. The general population on Earth would consider these stranded humans to be predators. However, the aliens want to hunt only the best game; therefore, they only take dangerous humans to put on their reserve. After realizing the gravity of the situation

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    “The Most Dangerous Game” was the best story that we read. The story kept you on the edge of you’re the entire time. You were left hanging when he jumped off the cliff wondering if Rainsford died or not, or or who died at the end of the story. The setting of the story takes place in three different places. First the story takes place on a yacht on the way to a hunting trip in South America. Then Rainsford falls off the boat and swims to the beach of Ship-Trap Island. After spending the night on

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    “The Most Dangerous Game” Essay In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” Connell uses similes and metaphors to compare two concepts and create a more detailed description. The use of these literary devices suggest that Connell wanted to convey an eerie setting that shows its more descriptive surrounding. 1. Body Paragraph Metaphors are used to present hidden similarities between two concepts to help understand a more distinct description of a setting, conflict and other entities in a story

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    Most Dangerous game argument paragraph Sanger Rainsford did have a right to kill General Zaroff. First off Zaroff said in the story when he was explaining the game to Rainsford that, “I am to follow, armed only with pistol of the smallest caliber and range” ( Connell 5). This is not fair to Rainsford because a gun is more easy to kill than a knife. This would make an acceptable example of a good reason to kill Zaroff because Zaroff did not play the game fair. He should have given Rainsford a gun

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