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    take the name of God in vain.” The Most Dangerous Game is a fictional book based on the historical events of the Cossacks actions during the 1917 Russian Revolution killing people for sport, which

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    Unexpected Hunt “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richards Connell and “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff deal with a concept of the hunt. “The Most Dangerous Game” has suspense and an unexpected turn towards the end of the story. However, “Hunters in the Snow” have more of a slow start and focuses on lifestyles of the characters and their actions. Yet, both stories focus on complex ideas and conflict. One story may appear more interesting to someone than the other based off the suspense in the

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    annotate and understand deep thinking when reading. Likewise, Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” has examples of statements made by Foster on literature. The short story is about a hunter goes through the perspective of someone being hunted. Remarkably, literary devices provided by Thomas C. Foster accompanied a different understanding of the short story, The Most Dangerous Game. Foster’s book “ How to Read Literature Like a Professor; For Kids” tells the audience on finding

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    The Most Interesting Villain Hunters hunt animals, usually not humans, or do they? Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game is a story about General Zaroff, an expert hunter, who is bored of hunting animals because they cannot think like humans can. He lives on an island called Ship-Trap Island where many ships get trapped in a channel that he built. He owns a fancy house with nice furnishings, a servant, and acts very civilized. The humans on the ships are then captured by General Zaroff who

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    Correspondingly, in the self-enthralling tale of an expedition gone awry titled, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the writer accentuates on an individual named Rainsford, who after stumbling off a yacht to Rio de Janeiro, swims ashore to an area called “Ship-Trap Island”, only to come face to face with the antagonist of the story, General Zaroff. The general derives appeasement in partaking in a callous game as hunting innocent humans and soon forces Rainsford to engage in such an activity

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    Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game" is a spine-chilling tale that has many elements of Gothic literature. Some key elements of Gothic literature are wild nature, origins, hero/villain, and castles. Those are found throughout the story in various ways. For example, the gothic element of wild nature is evident even in the beginning of the story. When Rainsford and Whitney are sailing through the ocean on a yacht, Whitney spots something from a distance. Whitney states that what

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    Intellect against Instinct The story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell in 1924 is one that has inspired a multitude of books by other authors. One example of a story inspired by The Most Dangerous Game is one that has been quite popular in recent years, The Hunger Games. The main character is a man named Sanger Rainsford who is a world class hunter who served in a war (presumably World War I); at the beginning of the story Rainsford is on a yacht bound for Rio along with his fellow hunter

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    Without suspense, the world is dull, boring, and uneventful; many people need suspense and drama to feel motivated and engaged in things; this is the same for books. In the book, “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell, the author used various literature methods to create suspense; the techniques he includes are used differently depending on which part of the plot they are used in.    In the story, Richard Connell uses imagery words to create a setting for the story. In turn, the setting gives

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    Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game.”  For instance, that story must absolutely be set on an island or else the plot will not work.  Also, it is essential that the island be entirely surrounded by rocks.  Furthermore, it is crucial that the island contain a false channel to lure ships to their demise.  Therefore, the setting of Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” is absolutely critical to the credibility of the plot. The general’s dangerous game of hide and seek must be set

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    A large island where the most dangerous things happened and a small town located in the Western Territory where there was war between two men both are similar and different in many ways. In the story, The Most Dangerous Game, written by Richard Connell, the main character, Rainsford, faced a situation where he had to be killed or play the game with the antagonist General Zaroff. In the film High Noon, written by Carl Foreman, the main character, Will Kane, faced a problem with the prisoner Frank

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