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1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2  The suspense and the waiting of when the person/thing falling in the trap was com pared to a year because Rainsford must've felt like it was a long time before it fell into the trap.

2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2 It means that the beast is calm now, but it will have more latent hostilities.

3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? /1 He has set thee island in the Caribbean.

4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2 HE invested heavily in american securities after the fall of the soviet empire.

5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1 If Rainsford wins, then Zaroff will give him his freedom and return him to civilization.

6. What happened to Lazarus? /2 Lazarus was hunting a prey and followed him to the Death Swamp. There, Lazuras got stuck in quicksand and died.

7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1 He slept in one of the broad limbs of a tree.

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

9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1 Moccasins leave less of a track to follow so it will be harder for Zaroff.

10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. /3 Zaroff smiled when he walked away, causing Rainsford to believe that Zaroff was just playing with him for now. I think that Rainsford is right because Zaroff has been hunting his whole life, and to catch such a fine prey so easily would be boring, so Zaroff gave a warning to Rainsford he means business.

11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2 He waits for ships to be wrecked on the rocks out in the bay or he falsely shows where a channel should be, but actually it leads to the rocks where ships are wrecked.,

12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2 General Zaroff is killed by Rainsford after he has lost the game.

13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? /2 Zaroff congratulated him because he was amazed that a prey could make such a trap with no tools at all, and Zaroff now knew that his opponent was a cunning adversarie.

14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2 He swam all the way to the island after he fell off the yacht and he spent tree whole days running and making traps with little food and water.

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 Before landing on the island, Rainsford doesn't understand animal's feelings, but after he was put into their situation and saw what it was like to be hunted and to be the prey, he truly understood the meaning of fear that animals go through when hunted. So in the end in found a new compassion for animals.

16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3 He inspires fear by installing literary devices like suspense, creepiness and dread. These work much better because the author creates a connection between Rainsford and the reader in which we picture ourselves in the story with Rainsford. This inspires fear because if Rainsford is caught so are we.

total 27/32 Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:__ The Most Dangerous Game

Protagonist: Sanger Rainsford

What type of character is the Protagonist? Round, Dynamic

Antagonist: General Zaroff

Describe the setting: Place: Ship Wreck island in the Caribbean Sea Time: Shortly after the Russian Revolution but before WW2. Mood: Suspenseful, Eerie, Scary

Type of Conflict: Man/Man

Describe the main conflict: Zaroff is playing a game in which he is hunting Rainsford over a three day period. During this time Rainsford is playing for his life.

Describe the Climax of the Story: It's when General Zaroff quotes "On guard, Rainsford...."

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? At first Rainsford is incapable and shows no compassion towards animals, but after he lives as the prey, he is finally able to relate and understand the true horror that animals go through when hunted.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The word "Game" in the title relates to a game or a competition, which surpasses between Rainsford and Zaroff. Its a game of survival of the fittest, which is also the theme.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? In the game or competition between Rainsford and Zaroff, if Rainsford wins he will have survived 3 days of the most impossible circumstances which is the meaning of "survival of the fittest".

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? When Zaroff says "On guard, Rainsford..." it means that he hasn't given up, even though he knows that he is going to die he is going to see this competition of survival to the end.

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

Simile: "The sea was as flat as a pate-glass window."

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Metaphor: "What I felt was a-a mental chill; a sort of sudden dread."

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Personification: "The wash from the yacht slapped him in the face."

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Symbol: The island symbolizes an animal trap.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Foreshadowing (give both elements): When Whitney says, "The old charts call it ship-trap island. A suggestive name isn't it?" he foreshadows the island actually being a trap for sailors.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Irony: The hunter (Zaroff) got hunted by the very thing he was hunting. (Rainsford)

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Imagery: "His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows."

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">The relation between our class theme power and the theme survival of the fittest is much the same as the relationship I gave for our first short story “A mountain Journey". Rainsford understands that he is at an extreme disadvantage from the begging of this competition and that he is playing for his life. Rainsford realises that if he is going to win he'll need to use every ounce of power in his body. The power he exerts is demonstrated in three ways: his creativity or ingenuity, physical strength and his will to win. Rainsford knows that the only way he'll win and leave with his life due to his disadvantage is to best general Zarrof in these three categories. Point of View: Omniscient

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