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    you ever heard of or played a dangerous game? For example, in the game Nerf, a group of people have Nerf guns. In order to eliminate your opponents, you have to shoot ad hit them with the Nerf bullets. The last man or woman standing is the winner. This game is considered dangerous because it’s promoting first-hand shooting and someone could easily get hit in the eye. In Richard Connell’s story “The Most Dangerous Game,” the characters also “play” a game. In this game, humans become the hunted. If

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    The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell, explores the emotion of fear, by using two philosophies. The first, that there are only two groups of people in the world: the hunters and the hunted and the second being survival of the fittest. The underlying content of “The Most Dangerous Game” relies on a sense of fear and a human’s reaction to a perilous situation. Fear can be defined as “response to physical and emotional danger” (Psychology Today). This instinctual reaction allows humans to protect

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    The Most Dangerous Game I would consider The Most Dangerous Game as commercial fiction. The story is written with the purpose to entertain and as an escape for the reader. It is short and easier to read. Moreover, it does not require the reader to think a lot. The story has specific themes and a plot that a reader can easily follow. In the entire story, there are two main characters, Rainsford the protagonist and General Zaroff, the antagonist. The story starts in the yacht with Rainsford expressing

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    The themes High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are actually mostly alike. In both of the stories, the main characters are alone, being hunted, learn about how selfish people can be, and are usually the people who hunt. In The Most Dangerous Game, Zaroff doesn't care about anyone or anything, and only shows the slightest bit of emotion when Rainsford kills one of his best dogs. "'You've done well, Rainsford,' the voice of the general called. 'Your Burmese tiger pit has claimed one of my best dogs

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    that continued to keep you interested in what's going to happen next? You get lost in the book trying to figure out what's going to happen before reading on. This happens often in novels that have a lot of suspense like Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” or Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters In The Snow.” The fact that they both have suspense is often the only similarity people can think of. There are many similarities and differences in them both that get ignored such as similarities and differences

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    Out of all of the stories that I have ever read or seen, these two stories are so similar even though they have many differences and that is what makes them great. In the story The Most Dangerous Game, written by Richard Connell an experienced hunter gets hunted by an estranged man who has let his ego get he best of him. In the movie, High Noon, written by Carl Foreman, a marshal has to protect his town from a group of bandits who are back for revenge. In both the film and the text, the main characters

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    Connell and Poe both portray in the “Most dangerous game” and ” Cast of Anomalii”. In “The Most Dangerous Game” is a story where a man , General Zaroff, gets bored with hunting and creates a game. In the game, he hunts humans instead of animals . In the long run he loses at his own games.In ” Cast of Anonliile” is a story where a guy , Montresor , wants revenge on a guy, Fortunato a, so he leads him down the catacoms and blocks him up in a small space in the wall . Theses stories give many

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    The line between good and evil can get blurred, even by the most well-intentioned individual. In Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” those lines are clearly drawn as the two main characters engage in a battle of wits, where the cost of the game is the loss of one’s life. Connell’s story opens with Sanger Rainsford and his friend, Whitney, sailing toward their next hunting destination, when an accident sends Rainsford overboard and towards an alleged suspicious island. Once on

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    In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, Rainsford outsmarted Zaroff to win the the dangerous man-hunt. Rainsford won by displaying three helpful traps. One trap was the Malay mancatcher. The second trap was called the tiger pit. The final trap was a knife strapped to a sapling. Rainsford had to come up with a plan and fast. He thought of the Malay mancatcher. It is a unstable tree that hits a cut down living tree and the living tree hits a person when they step on the

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    The Most Dangerous Game “But they are men,” said Rainsford hotly. “precisely,” said the general. “That is why I use them. It gives me pleasure. They can reason After a fashion. So they are dangerous”. An interesting plot with an intense conflict all added to with extreme suspense make this short piece of writing exceptional. All these awesome elements make Richard Connell’s book, “The Most Dangerous Game,” an illustrious thriller. The first feature used is plot, plot is what unfolds into a

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