The+Most+Dangerous+Game

Round **Antagonist: **
 * Short Stories - Literary Devises **
 * Title: **
 * The Most Dangerous Game **
 * Point of View: **
 * 3rd person **
 * Protagonist: **
 * Rainsford **
 * What type of character is the Protagonist? **
 * General Zaroff **
 * Describe the setting **
 * On a deserted island in the Caribbean sea, mostly dense jungle. Around the 1940’s 1950’s area. It’s kinda a freaky mood like if something is going on that you're really don’t know yet. **
 * Type of Conflict: **
 * Man vs. Man **
 * Describe the main conflict: **
 * Rainsford trying to get off the island and winning General Zaroff’s game by killing him. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the Climax of the Story: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When Rainsford comes from behind the curtain in General Zaroff’s room. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The protagonist (Rainsford) changes through the story by starting off liking to hunt animals and not caring about how the animal feels. And at the end of the story he doesn’t want to hunt anymore and he understands how the animal feels witch total changes his perspective of hunting. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The theme of the story is sympathy and the title is “The Most Dangerous Game”. They are related because you should feel sympathy for people that have to play in a game that is dangerous. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The theme of the story is sympathy and the main conflict of the story is Rainsford trying not to get killed by General Zaroff. The main conflict helped to illustrate the theme by showing that Rainsford should have treated the animals he hunted with more respect or sympathy because he was getting hunted himself and going through that experience. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The theme of the story is sympathy and the climax of the story is when Rainsford comes from behind the curtain in General Zaroff’s room. That helps illustrate the theme by showing that Zaroff should have treated all those animals and people with more respect so he kinda had it coming because he killed so many people and animals. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ugh! Its like moist black velvet” **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“This hot wet weather is making you soft, Whitney.” **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“But the muffled throb of the engine that moved the yacht swiftly through the darkness.” **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The old charts call it ‘Ship-Trap Island,’ ” **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the opening sentence Whitney mentions the Shiptrap island is a suggestive name and later they realize they were right when they get trapped. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The hunter is getting hunted. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Can’t see it,” remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The class theme is HUMANITY and the story relates to that because Connell had a really good sense of humanity with his attitude at the beginning of the story and with his mansion. But then you realized he is very inhuman because he hunts men through the jungle and thinks it’s fun and sees nothing wrong about it. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions. /32 **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That in that minute it felt like a year had passed by. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That he is still dangerous and the game is not over for him. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? /1 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Caribbean **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By hunting people on his island and hunting animals. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That he would be able to leave the island. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. What happened to Lazarus? /2 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He got killed **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On a branch of a tree. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? /1 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Big Game hunting selling the meat and fur. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Why does Zaroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because if he wore moccasins it would have made it harder for Zarroff to track him. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. /3 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I think Zaroff knew he was in the tree because he looked up into the tree right where rainsford was and smiled, and he started to relax when he got to the tree. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He traps ships into a face canal witch forces the men to abandon their ship and go to the island. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He gets killed by Rainsford and his remains got fed to the dogs. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? /2 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff congratulated Rainsford on his Malay mancatcher because is was giving him a challenge that he wanted and it made it fun for him. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We know that Rainsford is very fit because he ran for two days straight and made two traps. Also he swimmed from his ship to the island and from one side of the island to another and somehow made his way up to Zaroff’s room to kill him. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before Rainsford went to the island he like to hunt for fun and didn’t really care how the animal felt when he was hunting it and killed it. After his experience on the island he knew what it was like to be hunted witch is very scary, and he also doesn’t want to or like to hunt anymore. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Connell was able to inspire fear without obvious bloodshed because Rainsford knew what he had done in the past and he seemed a little crazy. **