The+Most+Dangerous+Game

QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions. /32

1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2

Rainsford was filled with adrenaline and one minute felt like one year for him.

When one has adrenaline flowing in their body, time slows down for them.

The protagonist was in a state of fear, which triggered the adrenaline and prolonged the moment.

2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2

The protagonist felted the experience of being the hunted and has turned into a beast himself.

He felt unsafe with his hunter so near to him so he attacked his hunter like a beast at bay.

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

The Caribbean sea.

4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2

After Russia turned into a communist state, Zaroff left the country and invested heavily in American securities, while other noble Russians didn’t and lost everything. Since he invested, he became rich and was able to finance his life style.

5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1 To move him on the mainland near a town.

6. What happened to Lazarus? /2 A lad (not Rainsford) went into the Death Swamp and Lazarus (one of Zaroff’s favourite hunting beast) followed him there. Lazarus sank in quicksand as well as the other lad.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He hid in a tree.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; 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: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A quarter of a million (about 250,000).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They leave a poorer trail.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; 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: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The fact that Zaroff smugly smiled and deliberately blew a smoke ring into the air. I think he was right. In this situation, it feels as if Rainsford is the mouse and Zaroff is the cat. The cat (Zaroff) is so confident that he can kill the mouse (Rainsford) that he just plays around with him.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Storms cause lost men to go to Zaroff. As well, Zaroff made the island in a way that if a ship comes close to its perimeter, the ship will get destroyed and the men on the ship will be trapped on the island.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; 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: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rainsford goes back to his bedroom and has a fight to the death with him. Though the story doesn’t directly say this, it implies that Rainsford kills Zaroff and Zaroff is fed to the dogs.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; 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: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Not many men know how to make it. As well, Zaroff is so used to winning, that being injured is, to him, an accomplishment for the injurer.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He’s a hunter, so he must be fit. He also survived being the hunted, something only a really fit man could do. The big reason is that Rainsford managed to physically beat Zaroff. Zaroff has to be fit because he dedicated his whole life to hunting, and if Rainsford can physically beat Zaroff. That means Rainsford is exceptionally fit.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; 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: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before Rainsford meet the General, he has a similar mindset as Zaroff. He thinks that animals have no feelings and that he is safe being the hunter, while everything else is the hunted. He hunts animals as a sport. After Rainsford meets Zaroff, he understands what it’s like to be an animal. He understands their feelings, especially the fear they feel while being hunted. He realizes he isn’t the hunter anymore, he’s the hunted. The difference is how much Rainsford changed after being exposed to a different perspective. Before he became the hunted, he treated animals as if they had no soul. He thought animals were put in the world for hunting. After he became the hunted, he understood the emotions the animals felt while being hunted. He felt how unsafe the hunted were; he experienced the fear that animals felt. He understood what Whitney said about how jaguars could have feelings. He changes his perspective on hunting animals through the experience of being hunted. Quotes like “Rainsford knew now how an animal at bay feels” shows us that Rainsford had learned.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Connell uses clever tactics to inspire fear. He concentrates on mental fear; nothing is going on, however, the fear is inspired by the crude emotional expressions put forth by the setting or character interactions. Connell implies fear, this makes the mind make connections about fear, without the story directing putting the fearful moment out. As well, the characters Connell made have fear written all over them. For example, you have the homicidal Russian gentleman; though the author doesn’t go in depth to how Zaroff kills his prey, the reader gets horrifying images of what Zaroff is like when the author describes what Zaroff does.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The Most Dangerous Game **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Point of View:** 3rd Person; Limited Omniscience

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Protagonist:** Rainsford <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Round; Dynamic
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What type of character is the Protagonist? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Antagonist:** General Zaroff

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On an island (Ship-Trap Island) which on the outside seems like a normal island, but in reality it’s the hunting grounds for General Zaroff. The main story takes place in the duration of 3 days. Throughout that time, the mood gives off intense fear and suspense.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the setting **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Type of Conflict: Man Vs Man **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff, a psychopath, sees hunting humans as a sport. Rainsford is the hunted and has to hide from Zaroff for three days (if he survives for three days, he gets dropped off the mainland near a town). Zaroff, the hunter, is hunting Rainsford, the hunted.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the main conflict: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The moment Rainsford says “I’m still a beast at bay” is the beginning of the climax. It’s the part where the most suspense is given, as well, the whole story leads up to that very line. After Rainsford says that, it triggers the event of Rainsford and Zaroff fighting and then it leads to Rainsford killing Zaroff. The section of Rainsford saying that line to when he kills Zaroff is the whole climax.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the Climax of the Story: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the beginning, Rainsford thinks animals don’t have feelings. Once Zaroff starts hunting him, Rainsford comes to the realization that animals do have feelings. They do feel fear and Rainsford realizes that it was wrong to think he was always the hunter and that the hunted had no soul.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The title “The Most Dangerous Game” relates to the theme of “Hunter being Hunted” because the most dangerous game is humans (since they can reason and are considered the smartest specimen) and humans are the usually the hunter, but in this story, they are considered the hunted. It should be noted that the hunter for the story might not be human because Zaroff may or may not be considered human because of how insane he is; you can debate whether he lost his humanity or not.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The main conflict illustrates how it feels to be the hunted (the whole story follows Rainsford). Rainsford, being a hunter, is being hunted by Zaroff. The conflict emphasizes on the theme “Hunter being Hunted” because of the verbal conversations and situations the author gives.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff is hunting Rainsford, but during the climax, the tables turn and Rainsford is now hunting Zaroff. The main difference between the situations is that the two have different reasons for hunting. Zaroff hunts for fun, and Rainsford hunts Zaroff because he feels unsafe being near him. At the end of the day, the hunter is being hunted.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; 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: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“He strained his eyes in the direction from which the reports had come, but it was like trying to see through a blanket.”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees.”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore.”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The cliff Rainsford jumped off of. Literally, it’s a natural formation, but it is also Rainsford’s only hope of survival (or best ‘way out’).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I am still a beast at bay.”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So the Rainsford (the beast) is going to do something a beast would do.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So Rainsford does something a beast would do and attacks his hunter.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The theme itself is ironic! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ironic how Zaroff, the hunter, is suppose to hunt Rainsford, the hunted. Yet at the end, Rainsford ends up killing (hunting) Zaroff.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Rainsford’s first impression was that the man was singularly handsome; his second was that there was an original, almost bizarre quality about the general’s face. He was a tall man past middle age, for his hair was a vivid white; but his thick eyebrows and pointed military mustache were as black as the night from which Rainsford had come. His eyes, too, were black and very bright. He had high cheek bones, a sharp-cut nose, a spare, dark face, the face of a man used to giving orders, the face of an aristocrat.”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Humanity relates to the theme, “Hunter being Hunted” because at the end of the day, “Hunter being Hunted” really is just another way of expressing the irony of humanity (pretty much meaning, one day, we will be at the top, the next, we will be at the bottom). We, as humans, will always, in one point of our lives, be hunters, and another point, we will be the hunted. It is part of how we as humans are. One point we will be totally beastin’ it, the next, we will be whimpering in a corner. The thing is, humans are both kings and wolf-heads at the same time. That irony helps describe human nature and who we are as well as vaguely describes what the theme is (the theme is more specific, since it only applies in the case of hunting, however, the two pretty much mean the same thing).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. **

Completion 5/5

Effort 5/5

Content 5/5

Questions 32/32

Total 47/47