Analysis Of Edward Abbey's 'Desert Solitaire'

Thankfully the run of Elephant's Graveyard at GCC has come to an end. The plays overly dark, cautionary tale about the evils of using wild animals to entertain the masses, left its audience depressed and deflated. While many playwrights have dark themes such as this play, they usually balance it with some levity and humor so that audiences are entertained as well as motivated to react to the playwrights cause. Unfortunately this play forgot to entertain, and neglected to offer any light.

One of the famous short stories that Richard Edward Connell wrote remains “The Most Dangerous Game”; it was published in 1925. His short story had become popular in 1932, they made a movie called The Most Dangerous Game and The Hounds of Zaroff. Connells nature of violence, cruelty, and the ethics of hunting for sport supported his writing style and made his writing extraordinary (“Dangerous game”). Analyzing “The Most Dangerous Game” displays a hunt that is between two men, every twist and turn through a gruesome tale.

Everyone needs to believe that they have a chance especially during difficult challenges. In our world, we are faced with tough challenges and tough decisions. In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” it is no different. In the story, Rainsford is faced with a very dangerous challenge. Rainsford is faced with life or death games where Zaroff and Rainsford have a game where they hunt each other. During this game, Rainsford believes that he had a chance against Zaroff and that helped him because he outsmarts Zaroff in the game. If Rainsford is experienced with nature and his surroundings then this means that Rainsford is very intelligent in nature, especially against a madman like Zaroff. In Richard Connell’s, “The Most Dangerous Game,” readers learn that experience with nature will help one survive.

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is the exciting tale of Sanger Rainsford’s journey to Ship-Trap Island. Rainsford meets a fellow hunting fanatic, General Zaroff, when Rainsford gets stranded on the island. While on the island Rainsford discusses hunting with General Zaroff and Rainsford learns something unusual about the generals preferred hunt. The general invites Rainsford to participate in the hunt, but Rainsford politely declines. He does not agree with the general’s morals and preference on the hunt. The general then forces Rainsford to hunt, but not as a partner as his prey. This essay is to determine if this short story The Most Dangerous Game is an escape or an interpretive literature. Escape literature is primarily for imaginative entertainment, while Interpretive is to provide insight to the world and to give you a different outlook on life.

The book is set in a small Texan town (Fentress) that is prone to chronic heat waves. The town is surrounded by greenery, farms and fields. Callie Vee (Calpurnia Tate) often explores San Marcos River. The river was separated from her house by a crescent-shaped field of five acres of feral, uncleared woods. There is a thin, clear path created by dogs, deer and other animals. There are high bushes of sticky burrs. There are “bags” of webworms above the river like a canopy of oaks and high bushes. Around Calpurnia’s house there are hundreds of insects that gather around the porch (grasshoppers, fireflies, spiders etc.).

She became accustomed to the perception of a desert being portrayed as dull and lifeless (Being raised in Kentucky) until this trip. Throughout this scene, she expresses her fascination for nature, and uses a tone of awe and allurement while describing the attributes about the land with metaphors. This narration occurred following the first rainfall, when Mattie and Taylor decided to go to the desert. This passage which is distinctive of Kingsolver’s portrayal of the natural landscape shows her sudden awareness diverse atmospheres. By linking to the scenery to “the palm of a human hand”, the author uses the literary device of personification with the mountains and the town. Her phrase “resting in its cradle of mountains” associates the basin to a child, and the phrases “city like a palm”and“life lines and heart lines hints a grown-up. The terrain exemplifies a life from the beginning to end. Taylor describes the land my linking each attribute with lots of metaphors, which then confirms that the tone is “wonder and allurement” because it demonstrates that she is emotionally connected to the

The man and snake meet as the man is taking a walk. He had walked into the desert “after sunset”. The darkness makes the man more accessible to risk and hazard. However, it is known for more animals to be alert and awake at night looking for food to hunt and eat. The man had stopped and examined the snake. He thought that he had been the only thing “abroad”. This shows that where they encountered was a secluded area not known to the man. If he walked where he was familiar with, he would expect these types of animals to be roaming around knowing it is their natural habitat. The desert glow sets a calming mood. After the gruesome event, the man recollects how he “might” have departed over the “twilit sands” had he let it go. Despite the killing of the snake, the man has remorse for the snake and wonders how it would have gone on over the beautiful landscape had it not been his duty to kill it. Contrastingly, setting allows the reader to empathize with the man and sympathize with the

In life, people have the mentality that there are hunters and there are the hunted. Sanger Rainsford also has this predator-prey thinking in Richard Connell's short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Rainsford is the protagonist in this tale that tests his strength and bravery. In the story, Rainsford is trapped on what he thought was an abandoned island; he soons finds out that this is home to General Zaroff, a skilled hunter who practices his specialization on humans. In Richard Connell’s short story, it conveys the idea that the world is made up of hunters and huntees, and how at any given moment, people’s position can change on the food chain.

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is a short story about a man who falls off his boat and lands on an island. He is hunted by a crazy man who hunts people instead of animals. There are many similarities between the short story and the movie.

The story “The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story by Richard Connell. In the story the protagonist is being hunted by the antagonist. The protagonist is a hunter named Rainsford who is trapped on an island and is being hunted by a hunter named Zaroff. Of all the characters examined, Rainsford was the most effective protagonist due to his characterization. Throughout the story Rainsford is characterized as humane, and caring of the lives of humans. When he realized who the “intelligent creatures” Zaroff hunted were, he is instantly disgusted and frightened by the thought. This characteristic gave Rainsford the quality of being a “good” human who values life. This benefited how he responded to the struggle of hunting men he faced possibly

In the movie “The Hunger Games”, the twenty four youth are put in an arena to fight to the death. If you were one of them, would you fight to survive, even if you had to kill someone? In the novel “The most dangerous game” by Richard Connell, this is exactly the situation Rainsford finds himself in, except there is only Rainsford, and a beast of a man with no sense of morality named General Zaroff. There are some who may argue otherwise, however due to the position Rainsford was in, General Zaroff’s persistence and beliefs, and the nature of the game that left only one person alive, Rainsford is not guilty of cold blooded murder. After Rainsford washed up on the island, his life was already in danger.

Hunter Sanger Rainsford washes up on the shore of an island owned by the wealthy General Zaroff. Rainsford sees evidence of someone hunting large game on the island. Zaroff claims he has been importing game for his hunts. Rainsford soon realizes that Zaroff has been hunting humans for sport. When he refuses to join Zaroff on a hunt, the General turns against him. Zaroff informs Rainsford that he will be hunted for the next three days. If Rainsford survives, he will be returned to the mainland, provided that he promises to tell no one of what happens on the island. Rainsford hides deep in the woods, where he sets several traps to outsmart Zaroff. Rainsford then sneaks into Zaroff’s quarters and kills him, turning the tables on hunter and

Have you ever had to survive on your own? The short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell Rainsford must face Zaroff on his island where he must survive through a hunt, where he is the prey. In this short story Rainsford is a realist, cunning, and confident.

Imagine you are given an assignment to relate a book to life. How would you do this? Do you just say “it was written in 2016, the same year were living in?” Or “it has people?” This may be correct, but but in my class at least, that wouldn't cut it. What you’d really have to do is find the relationship or connection that life and literature have through narrative, conflict, and characterization, that'll get you a good grade. But how do i do this, you may ask. You gotta relate each of those things to yourself and the world around you.

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