The Consequences Of The Game

In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and the poem “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, the authors use characterization and imagery to convey that the desire for power can drive man to psychotic actions.

It had been a week since Rainsford managed to kill the nefarious General Zaroff. The challenging part was almost over or so it seemed. There was not a clear way for Rainsford to escape. As days passed, Rainsford tried to escape. He tried making a boat from driftwood that he found, he tried swimming, he even tried sending a signal by using a flashlight. Rainsford had become so desperate that he even tried some ridiculous plans like trying to pole vault across the ocean. As a result, Rainsford ended up having huge gashes in his left leg ,which got infected, and he had to amputate it. As days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, Rainsford had lost hope and became bitter.

“The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Cornell was a story which Mr.Cornell used 8 aspects of fiction to show his point of view that one who has intellect can overcome one who has intelligence or instinct. The character’s used in the story gave the author a way to make his point of view come clear to his audience. The story uses sequence of events. The plot is how the story goes about. The setting is the surroundings of the story, or where it takes place. The suspense is the temporary holding of the information to keep the reading interested, and to keep the reader guessing and wanting to know what will happen so they will continue reading your story. Foreshadowing is the readers way of telling the ‘future’, in other words the writer is

Some stories do not have many different conflicts in the story. For example, in “Little Red Riding Hood” there is only one conflict which is Man vs Wolf or Man vs Man, but in some stories like “The Most Dangerous Game” there are all three conflicts throughout the book. Having more conflicts gives the story a bigger theme of suspense. In “Little Red Riding Hood”, the only conflict is getting to her grandma’s house where in “The Most Dangerous Game” there are many different conflicts that give the story more suspense and make it more interesting. Furthermore, there are many examples of conflicts in the short story.

Imagine a time where you had an argument with your parents. What would was the outcome of the argument? Did you get what you wanted? Many may wonder: why would you argue with when you now you most likely will not get your way. Maybe we argue because we are mad and want to vent Maybe we argue because we are convinced we are right even if we realize later that we weren't. We ask ourselves why why do we fight battles we now we are destined to lose? The argument of “The Most Dangerous Game” General Zaroff, hunts trapped sailors on his island. He does this because he is bored of hunting animals he knows he will win. He thinks he will also defeat Rainsford, other great hunter. Zaroff is a murderer and is uncivilized because he killed people

Power and corruption have always gone hand in hand with the world today. The characters in the short stories. “Monkey's Paw” by Richard Connell is about a family getting the gift of a monkey's paw that holds three wishes and instead of heeding the warning of an old friend, they use the wishes for horrible consequences.” The Most Dangerous Game” follows the story of a young man who gets trapped on an island with a man called General Zaroff that hunts the unfortunate people who stumble across the island.”How to transform” is about an eighth grader who learns lessons about life as he practices playing basketball in an old gym. These stories have the motif of power and corruption throughout the story, and though this motif comes the theme of each short story.

Hunting big game animals for sport was a popular pastime with the wealthy classes following World War I. The morality of killing for sport was not questioned in reality, but in this short story the author does question it by taking it a step further and having the protagonist, Sangor Rainsford, hunted by the antagonist, General Zaroff.In a short story full of irony, one of the greatest ironies of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” is that General Zaroff repeatedly tells Rainsford that he maintains a sense of civilization on his island.

Rainsford in ‘The Most Dangerous Game,’ Della in ‘The Gift of the Magi,’ and Lizabeth in ‘Marigolds,’ are all faced with adversity in different ways. However, all three characters demonstrate that the very best way to handle adversity is by remaining valiant. In ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ Rainsford is faced with adversity when he is launched off a ship. “The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea dosed over his head. He struggled up to the surface and tried to cry out, but the wash from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face and the salt water in his open mouth made him gag and strangle” (Connell). In ‘The Gift of the Magi’ Della faces adversity when she does not possess enough money to buy her husband a

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.

Neil Degrasse Tyson points out in his article “Cosmic Perspective”, first published in the Natural Magazine in 2007, that if every human were to truly comprehend how stupendous and interraled the universe is to us, our perspective on humanity would shift from a focus on our distinctions to our connections. Tyson explores through many examples of the “cosmic perspective” to prove just how closely associated we are with the universe.

Chapter 1- This is a second-dimentional world filled with lines and edges so everything here is completely flat. It is impossible to view anything other than a line becuse everything is viewed from one angle. Edwin Abbott uses a penny to explain this, loking down on it you would see a circle but if you lowered your gaze to the side, you would onle see a line.

After reading the novel Flatland, by Edwin Abbott Abbott, Second, Revised Edition 1884, I have a greater cognizance both in the novel and in my life, on how "Point of View" plays a huge part in the outcome of simple situations, as well as the major decisions people make in their lives. The Author used a very complex and intricate setting for his novel, with the use of Mathematics and English to illustrate this abstract point of view; very different from what we experience in Americaland, but in some ways the same. Throughout this paper, I will be discussing how "Point of View" plays a part in Flatland. As well as my beliefs on how we view things in our 3D world, with similar and different points of view. I will be using key references from the novel to emphasize my understanding.

The book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams follows the theme of perspective. All throughout the book, the main characters toy with the fact of just how large the universe is, and that their lives are pretty obsolete. As first shown in Chapter 10, the Total Perspective Vortex, a torture device, shows “ The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely small”. This machine shows yourself compared to the entire universe and just how tiny we really are.

In search of a better understanding of the “upside down” and the acrobat and flea analogy used in the Stranger Things Netflix series, Business Insider journalists Erin Brodwin and Ali Sundermier interviewed theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt. Steinhardt explained that unlike the flea, the acrobat cannot move around the rope because of its size. He connects this analogy to the string theory by explaining that the larger the object, such as an acrobat, the fewer number of dimensions it can move through. Steinhardt further simplifies this theory by suggesting the alternative sandwich model, which represents parallel