The+Most+Dangerous+Game

1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2 It meant that the suspense was drawing out the moment. It is a hyberbole because it was only one minute, but it felt like a very long time.

2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2 He meant to say that he was still playing the 'game', that he still considered himself the trapped prey.

3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? /1 Caribbean Sea.

4. How is Zaroff able to finance his lifestyle? /2 His father was wealthy. He was an officer for the the Czar but he had to flee to America, and he invested in American securities.

5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1 He promises to admit defeat and bring him back to the mainland.

6. What happened to Lazarus? /2 Lazarus was one of General Zaroff's hunting dogs. It followed one of the prisoners into the quicksand and got stuck.

7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1 He sleeps on a tree limb deep in the jungle.

8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? /1 He owned a quarter of a million acres.

9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1 Because they leave a poorer trail.

10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. /3 He knew that he had followed his complicated trail in the middle ofthe night so he could probably figure out that he was in that tree. Also, he had looked up the tree but stopped short of seeing Rainsford because he obviously took pleasure in his game.

11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2 He captures sailors that go astray in his 'ship trap'; Whwn ships crash in the jagged rocks offshore or when the sailors or such people wash up onshore

12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2 The tables are turned once again as Zaroff this time goes from hunter to huntee. Rainsford sneaks up on him as he goes to bed thinking he has won, and we can assume that Rainsford kills him.

13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? /2 Zaroff recognizes that Rainsford is very skilled, and he is trying to keep up the false pretense of cordial feelings between the two men. He didn't want to admit that Rainsford had almost gotten him.

14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2 It says he 'dug himself in in France', which means that during the war he had had to quickly dig a trench or hole to dodge bullets, etc.

15. Discuss the state of mind of Rainsford before he lands on the island versus that after he meets the General. What is different? (Especially about how he perceives animal feelings.)/5 Rainsford feels that he is superior to the animals he kills, and that they have no feeling of fear or emotions. After the circumstances are reversed, and he finds himself as the hunted prey, he recognizes that they fear the prey feels is very much real. He sees how Zaroff feels entitled to killing, even killing Rainsford, and that makes him rethink his own feeling towards himself as a hunter.

16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3 He creates suspense with the rising action, making the stakes higher and each incident a closer call than the last. He creates a feeling of cruel intentions around Zaroff's charachter (by using dialogue, a tions, etc) that makes the reader attuned to the fact that Zaroff is the 'bad guy'. He also uses descriptive figurative language so the reader can get the scary feeling without descriptions of the blood and guts.

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:_The Most Dangerous Game_

Point of View: Third Person

Protagonist: Rainsford What type of character is the Protagonist? Round, Dynamic

Antagonist: General Zaroff

Describe the setting Place: A small island in the Caribbean Sea, In a grand house, then a dense, dark jungle. Time: Probably sometime in the 20th century. Takes place over corse of about 5 days. Mood/Atmosphere: Hostile, dangerous, forboding, dark.

Type of Conflict: Man vs. Man

Describe the main conflict: General Zaroff has a deadly game and he wants Rainsford to play. His intentions are twisted, as he thinks of it only as entertainment and not murder. Zaroff lulls Rainsford into thinking they are friends with his formality and politness, but really all he wants from him is a good game. Zaroof gives him the rules and equipment and sets him off. They chase each other around the jungle for three days, getting closer and closer to death each time.

Describe the Climax of the Story: There is kindof a false climax when Rainsford jumps from the cliff, but new information is revealed when Rainsford surprises Zaroff in his bedroom, and we can assume that Rainsford kills Zaroff from the last line.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?

At first he sees the animals he hunts as inferior creatures, but once he sees how Zaroff has the same attitude of entitlement towards killing other humans, including Rainsford himself as he becomes the hunted as opposed to the hunter, Rainsford sees that being prey includes having great fear and it changes his views of himself as a hunter.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title is a play on words refering to 'game' meaning two things: game being sport or entertainment and game meaning animals to be hunted, or in this case, humans. The theme is about how we are similar to animals and we can go from playing the game to being the game.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? Rainsford has the mindset of a hunter, he thinks he is superior to the animals he hunts, but when he is the one being hunted by General Zaroff, he feels the fear of prey and the fear of General Zaroff's twisted views on 'sport hunting'.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? In the climax, Rainsford says he is 'still a beast at bay', which means that even though he has won the game, he still feels like the hunted animal. He seems a little wrapped up in the 'game' still, which shows how he let it get in the way of his usual level-headedness.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile: "The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window." , "It's like moist black velvet." (refering to the darkness) ,

Metaphor: "Sometimes an argry god of the high seas sends them to me."

Personification: "the sea licked greedy lips"

Symbol: Zaroff's mansion representing his false front of civilized nature. "His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau." "The stone steps were real enough; the massive door with a leering gargoyle for a knocker was real enough; yet all about it hung an air of unreality."

Foreshadowing (give both elements): "Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition-" foreshadowing the danger that Rainsford will later encounter on the island. "The Cossak was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of fear.

Irony: It was ironic that Rainsford was a hunter himself but ended up getting hunted. ("It is a very great pleasure and honour to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, to my home." "I drink to a foeman worthy of my steel- at last." "Rainsford froze there, every muscle tensed for a spring.")

Imagery: "Across a cove he could see the gloomy gray stone of the chateau. Twenty feet below the sea rumbled and hissed."

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. This story illustrates a positive point of humanity, compassion, while being on the surface a dark story. One illustration of that was the way Rainsford's compassion for the animals he hunted changes as he saw their experiences firsthand. Another was the absense of Zaroff's compassion for humanity, and how he let his selfishness get in the way of that.

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