Essay On The Game

It is America’s game. Tough, rough, explosive, exciting, and captivating. One can’t deny that this sport can truly be a thrill to watch. Big plays accompanied by big hits. Touchdowns paired with broken bones and concussions. Kids start when they are young aiming for the stars to be the next great NFL player. It is instilled in the culture from young age that football players are the biggest, baddest, and toughest athletes on the planet. They are the modern day warriors out to entertain the masses. Football players don’t get hurt, they play through the pain, at whatever cost and taking whatever medication they can to numb the pain.

Throughout the past five years, I have indulged myself in a fascinating array of short stories. From stories such as “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling to “Song of the Trees” by Mildred D. Taylor, to even ‘The Smallest Dragonboy’ by Anne McCaffrey, just to say a few. All these stories stood out to fascinate me in a variety different ways. 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

As I trot the familiar path from the locker-room to the stadium, the air begins to thicken and crackle with static. The sound of cleats scuffing along on the pavement of the track onto the turf, with a faint cheering off in the distance is not easily recognizable inside the helmet. My heart crescendos its beats per second as I get a glimpse of the visiting team. They form a blurry huddle on the other side of the stadium, joined by their fandom that looks hazy like a demonsterous figure from my dreams. I try hard not to notice their fist-pumping movements.

“The Most Dangerous Game” is a very good story with a lot of suspense and foreshadowing. The story plot is about an experienced hunter, Rainsford, who falls off of a yacht in the middle of the Caribbean, and finds himself on a small island. He then goes to seek shelter and finds a mansion, where he meets another hunter named Zaroff who was tired of hunting because it wasn’t challenging enough for him. To resolve his issue, he decides to hunt something different, humans. Soon after, the two begin hunting each other. After many traps set, and shots fired, the hunt is finally over, with Rainsford coming out victorious.

There are many question about how the great game of baseball originally started and how it has grown to become Americas game that so many of us enjoy so much as little kids until till we die. Baseball is one of the only games today where the rules of the game have stayed the same since a guy named Abner Doubleday first evolved the game in 1845. Then he went on to be a Civil War hero shortly after as the game of Baseball became Americas beloved national pastime.

How would it feel to suddenly go from being the hunter to becoming the prey? That is exactly what happened to Rainsford, one of the main characters in The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. Rainsford was a big game hunter who accidentally fell of of his yacht. He swam to a nearby island, and there he met General Zaroff, a cruel man who hunts humans for sport. In exchange for release from the island, Rainsford agrees to be hunted by Zaroff. Consequently, Rainsford is a survivor because he kills Zaroff and wins the game. Rainsford is also a survivor because he demonstrates the qualities that a person must have to be considered a survivor. Although Rainsford is a survivor, Zaroff is not. To be considered a survivor, a person must go through a traumatic or life-threatening experience but still demonstrate resilience and determination.

I will be comparing the video verion of The Most Dangerous Game to the story.

Question: Discuss the characterizations of Rainsford and General Zaroff in “The Most Dangerous Game.” Which one is more fully characterized? Are both characters plausible?

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will get whipped in the dungeon of Zaroff's home until he agrees to be hunted.

Most people wouldn't assume that smoking a cigarette could leave someone stranded on an island but unfortunately it was just that that lead to Rainsford's life being in a severe amount of danger on his own with no one to blame but himself. This all takes place in a story written by Richard Connell called, The Most Dangerous Game in which the main character Rainsford wounds up stranded on an island where he is forced to fight over the course of three days in the most dangerous game. In the film High Noon written by Carl Foreman the main character and towns marshall Will Kane is put to the test when his long time rival Frank Miller returns back to town in hopes of getting long lasting revenge on him. Unfortunately all that small town Hadleyvilles

One theme embedded in “The Most Dangerous Game” is that all living things have feelings to survive. I know that this is an actual thing that is true with everyone, you see people survive from the things that you think are impossible there are people that get shot and drive themselves to hospitals. Animals that run when they are in danger, animals that fight for their lives either when forced to for crude human entertainment that is sicking, or when fighting or when fighting to protect their family. For example bears fight when they feel in danger they stand tall to make themselves seem bigger than who they are facing rather it be a human or another bear, they fight to protect their families the people that they love. You hear these amazing stories about dogs running into burning homes and save their owners, but yet people still think that animals have no ability to feel human feelings or the ability to survive. Another example for a dog is keeping the owners safe. When dogs bark at the ring of a doorbell or a knock at the door people usually just tell them to stop and be quiet, People don’t realize what they are actually doing from the dog barking he/she is letting you know that someone is at the door so that way you

Upon reading the two stories, “The Destructors and the Most Dangerous Game” you will find the settings for the two stories are that of two different times, places, and world views. One is placed in a dark and dreary post war setting, and the other in a vibrant jungle full of wild game hunting and fishing. Each with very different conflicts and endings.

In the realm of the filmic, one of the most creative scenes is the hunting

Growing up in my house, sports were around like Sunday church services and family dinners. From the time that I can remember, baseball was the most prevalent of the sports focused on by my family. Games were always on the TV. My father, a Dodger's fan, would always catch the L.A. games when they were on. When my dad told me bedtime stories, I heard about Duke Snyder and Willie Mays, Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium instead of fairy tales. He taught me how to throw, catch, and bat, but he also imparted to me the history of the game. All through my youth I was a never- ending fountain of questions about baseball, and Dad always seemed to have the answers.