The Croquet Player Essay

The above quote portrays the few moments after Frankenstien had given life to his creature. He had spent a few years working on this project. It can be compaired to a person giving birth to a child. By nature he wanted his creation to be beautiful. When he realizes that his creature is not a beautiful sight, but in actuality a grotesque looking being, he runs away. He does not spend any time nuturing his "child" , because the abnormal apperence of the creature has scared him away. From this point on the creature is doomed to receive this type of reaction from any one who sees him, because human nature is to fear the unknown. The creatures creator is afraid of him. This is like a

Georgie is almost a foil to the narrator because he is the one who enjoys saving lives and has a minor hero complex. Georgie is the one who takes the knife out of the man’s eye (109) and saves the baby rabbits from their dead mother (110) and then finally offers to drive an AWOL soldier to Canada for sanctum (114). The narrator just languidly tags along and is unsure sometimes of whether he is even telling the right story. A major theme within the story is sight. Georgie cleans up blood only he sees on the floor (106), then the narrator asks Georgie “Are you completely blind?” (110) after he complains about not seeing the carnival rides, and after getting lost he asks again “Georgie, can you see?” to which Georgie only replies “See what? See what?”(111). There are several more examples, but the message is that neither character is looking at life. Instead, both men are living in darkness because of their drug abuse and refusal to accept reality. The simplistic and deadpan dialogue along with the uncertainty and vagueness of the narrator’s storytelling reveals how unfulfilled the narrator feels and how he believes he is trapped in a tedious life with no

Edgar Allan Poe was an extraordinary author whose horror and mystery stories leave an impression on readers even today. In some of Poe’s works, the narrator’s thoughts and actions make the reader question the narrator’s sanity. Two good examples are Poe’s poem “The Raven” and his short story “The Black Cat”; there is plenty of evidence to support that both of the narrators are not completely sane. In Poe’s “The Raven” and “The Black Cat,” both narrators exhibit symptoms of mental illness, including hallucinations, illogical thinking, mood swings, and substance abuse.

Curiosity wins the reader’s interest in accounts and push them to take on their engagement in the narrative. In “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, the way in which the characters talk to each other gives the reader chills and urge the reader to feel attached to the characters. Connell develops curiosity in the reader through his tone and the use of foreshadowing.

“He knew his pursuer was coming; he heard the padding sound of feet on the soft earth… (Connell 32)” The Most Dangerous Game is a story full of adventures and seems to always have the reader on edge. Richard Connell’s story is filled with the theme of ‘will.’ This book is also full of plot twists and makes one mesmerized page by page wanting to know what happens to Rainsford. It also lets the reader to question what happens at the end and it allows the reader to make connections with real life, archetypes, and other literature. The Most Dangerous Game is a compelling hunt full of violence, action, and the theme of ‘will’ in the hunt of a man by a man.

In his short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell writes of a hunter named Rainsford. He finds himself cut off on a Caribbean island where he must survive a treacherous game of hunting. Throughout the story, Connell emphasizes the suspense of this story and places a sense of fear into the reader’s mind. He uses the literary devices of foreshadowing and imagery to suggest that terror and danger can be felt by even the strongest and boldest of men.

Which are ‘witches meeting at night in abandoned houses’and‘an ogre’ that will ‘eat him bit by bit’. These are derived from religious stories and his colourful imagination. Michele’s dreams are filled by monsters. “When I was small I always dreamed about monsters”. He tried to cover them by imagining he locked them into a golden bus to take them ‘all to the circuses’. He also imagines that then his stomach opens and they ‘all walked happily into it. He overcomes his fears of creatures “I found a place where I can lock those…creatures up and sleep serenely”. Michele says “Monsters don’t exist...its men you should be afraid of, not monsters...”. He even fears his very own father, having lost trust in him because his part in the kidnappers

Just as many stories, both action and adventure, or comedy and crime, Beah’s narrative is created through his personal journey. In his journey he encounters many events and people. Out of those events are the negative and the positive ones. Thus, his journey revolves around the abstract idea of war and how neither him or his fellow villagers would come to a general understanding of what the refugees migrating to their village had perceived because it was too terrific and unpredictable. The three major events that took place in the main character’s life was changing from innocent young boy, to savage solider and again to a normal adult.

     The most dangerous game began as a sport for one man. His name is Sanger Rainsford. In Richard Connell’s story “The Most Dangerous Game,” Sanger Rainsford, an avid hunter, is lost at sea, stranded on “Ship-Trap” Island-every sailor’s worst nightmare. Rainsford goes through a series of events that prove to be life-altering. Even though Sanger Rainsford went through many trials and tribulations, he never lost his intelligence, composure, or his bravery.

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.

The human imagination is portrayed as a wild and uncontrollable being. This can be shown throughout the story by loss of control of his mental state by Roderick Usher, and by the narrator’s belief that he too is being infected by the house’s tormenting nature. I believe that Edgar Allan Poe personifies the mental concept of the imagination because it seems that throughout the story, the main culprit to the cause of madness is the torment of the person by his own imagination. The unnamed narrator is persistently

King interestingly employed an old-fashioned game in order to emphasize his theme that British imperialism and colonial conquest in America played a huge role in his literary work. The game of croquet was enjoyed by British royalty in the early seventeenth century after it was created by Frenchmen (“History of Croquet”). A few centuries later, a spin-off of croquet, known as roque, achieved immeasurable notoriety in North America (Herbert; “Roque”). The games of croquet and roque are symbols for white opulence and dominion due to their far-reaching implications for leisure and enjoyment among wealthy British and American civilians (Herbert; “History of Croquet”; “Roque”). Roque also served as a central motif in The Shining when Jack Torrance

“Oh no, please don’t tell me this is happening. Mom, can I just skip this tournament?” I pleaded, “There is absolutely no hope for me.” Being the dramatic person I am, I lamented the imminent end of my tennis career. I went into the tournament with an expectation of failure. I started the match by accidentally whacking the ball over the fence, tripping on my own feet rushing to end the point. The little confidence I had when going into the match dissipated within a few minutes. I continued the match pondering how to angle my racket to put spin on the ball. Every time I failed, I blamed it on the high skill level of my opponent. Unsurprisingly, I lost in an hour. When looking back on that match, I realized that it could have gone differently had I not brought myself down before. My lack of

Edgar Allan Poe is an American poet well-known for his eerie and gothic based themes. In fact, his tales of mystery and horror were the first to give rise to detective stories. In his short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843), Poe invites us to experience a sinister and mystifying murder through the mind of the murderer, the narrator himself. This self-narrated tale takes place in a house that the narrator shares with an old man. The story’s focal characters are the narrator and the old man, both of whom are left nameless. It is probable that the narrator is telling the story from either prison or an insane asylum. He tries to justify his sanity; however, his actions prove otherwise. This tale revolves around the narrator 's passion to kill the old man because of his “evil eye” and the obsessed mind of the narrator who hears the beating of the dead man’s heart—solely within his own tortured imagination which causes the reader to question if the narrator is mentally sane or not. By analyzing how Poe’s early life influenced his work, I will demonstrate how Poe’s story engages readers with two widely occurring, but rarely explored elements of human experiences: a guilty conscience and the descent into madness. He takes his inner emotions to the extreme through his work and portrays the message that a guilty conscience will drive you insane. I will be analyzing how Poe’s early influences affect the

As we all know, America is a nation of sports enthusiasts. Most Americans participate is some kind of sporting event, either as a spectator or as a competitor. In the pantheon of great American sports, there is one that stands out. It has been called the great American pastime. Yes, that great sport known as tennis. Tennis requires a mastery of many skills to be able to play competitively, but the primary skill needed to win in tennis is the serve. The serve is the primary offensive weapon used I tennis, because it is the only time when a player gets to put a ball into play. The player controls the speed, the placement, and the spin of the ball. With proper procedure, the serve can win many points and games for the server. The technique