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Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:__

Point of View: Third Person

Protagonist: Rainsford

What type of character is the Protagonist? He is round and well devolped. Antagonist: General

Describe the setting It was on an island most of the time, a forest island where General lives. TIME PERIOD?

Type of Conflict: Man V.s Man

Describe the main conflict: It's mainly about how Rainsford change his feeling for hunting, when he changed from hunter to a huntee.

Describe the Climax of the Story: There were a few climaxes in the whole story, but the main one is near the end, when Rainsford thought that General is going to find him near the tree.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? He was a hunter at first, but not a murderer, and he thinks that hunting in nothing, it only hurts the animals. Untill he meets General, he finds out that he is a murderer, and Rainsford had become the huntee for General, and he starts to understands how the animals feel about going to be killed.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title is The Most Dangerous Game, and the theme is about the hunt between General and Rainsford, which is a dangerous game, hunting is a dangerous game between human and animals, but the aouther change both hunter and huntee to human too, so it feels way more dangerous. So overall the auother is trying to tell us how human can be dangerous, to human and to animals.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The theme is about the hunt between General and Riansford, and the main conflict is about how Rainfords changes he feeling about hunting from being the hunter to a huntee. It helps to illustrates the theme because they are both are about hunting. How a hunter and a huntee feeling in a hunt helps to illustrates the hunt way better, helps for us to know how is it feels to be in a hunt; being a hunter or a huntee.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? Teh climax is about durning the hunt when Rainsford hides near the tree, and the auother discribes how Rainsford feels when he thinks General is getting close. That should be how the aniamls feels when they hear the gun. It helps to illustrate the theme because it help us to understands more about hunting, how it feels and how the animals feel when they are in danger.

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

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Simile: " Mustache were as black as the night from which Rainsford had come."

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Metaphor: "The night would be my eyelid."

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Personification:

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Symbol: " new collections of heads"

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Foreshadowing (give both elements): " Something was coming throught the bush, coming slowly, carefully, coming slowly, carefully, coming by the same winding way Rainsford had come."

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';"><range type="comment" id="397907">Irony: " into the deepest sleep of his life."

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Imagery: " he wrestled himself out of his clothes"

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. The class theme is humanity, and the story is talking about how dangerous human can be. How dangerous we are to the animals and to other humans in this world. So overall it's talking about how dangerous humanity is. And also how we don't understands how others feel unless we are in their satuation. Like Rainsford don't understands how the huntees feel, untill he becomes a huntee.

QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions. /32

1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2 It means a year go by really fast, it's exciting and scary so you forget about the date, so it seems like a minute.

2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2 He swam all the way from the ocean, so he is good at swimming.

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

4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2 He was a hunter for his whole life, then he joined the army. He had invested heavily in American securities, now he is still a hunter, expect for the human.

5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1 He will cheerfully acknowledge himself.

6. What happened to Lazarus? /2

7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1 Near the tree that he is hiding.

8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? /1

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 believed that Zaroff knows where he was hidind there because Zaroff came from the same place that he had came from. And I think he is right because there is no one else hunting at nigth on that island, and also walk form the same direction.

11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2 By hunting, and murdering humans. He hunt humans instead for animals, so he is always playing a "game" with others on the island. And people knows that too, so they a specious around him, and everythings come together, it just feels like a game.

12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2 He lost the game, and he furnish a repast for the hounds.

13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? /2 Because now he knows how the animals feel, and he choose to stop hunting because he realizes how much is hurts the huntees.

14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2 Because he can fit in the tree. And he stayed there for 3 days.

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 At first he loves hunting, he hunts the most as he could, the he meet General, and becomes his huntee, and then he knows how the aniamls feel, so he diceide to stop hunting for good. He understands how it feels to be danger from him being the huntee.

16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3

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