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=Literary Devices Sheet - The Most Dangerous Game=

This is the entire screenplay! You were only to script a trailer! In other words pick out the shots to entice people to see the movie. It is also in the incorrect format! See me to discuss this. **Point of View:** Third person (omniscient) **Protagonist:** Sanger Rainsford **What type of character is the Protagonist?** round, dynamic **Antagonist:** General Zaroff **Describe the setting:** Ship-Trap Island in the Caribbean Sea, shortly after World War I, mysterious, sinister **Type of Conflict:** person vs. person
 * Describe the main conflict: **The conflict of person vs. person is illustrated over the course of the time the two men are in the jungle trying to eliminate one another. On Rainsford's first attempt at deceiving his hunter, he hides in a tree and when he is not killed, assumes he has outsmarted General Zaroff. It is only when the general deliberately blows a ring of smoke into the tree where Rainsford is hiding does he realize he is being played with like a toy. In the next few attempts, Rainsford's tactics become more difficult and successful, injuring his hunter, eliminating a prized hound and Ivan, but never quite defeating his hunter until the conclusion of the story.
 * Describe the Climax of the Story: **The climax of the story is when Rainsford chooses to jump off the cliff and into the hissing sea where he will employ his final and most effective tactic to eliminate General Zaroff, return home, and be the ultimate winner of the general's blackhearted game.
 * How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? **Rainsford changes from a character who has no empathy for other living things to someone who is able to understand what it feels like to be a hunted animal. Rainsford's friend, Whitney, even suggests the idea that an animal would feel many different kinds of fear in an early discussion in this story, but Rainsford simply ignores his idea. When the tables turn on Rainsford and the great hunter becomes the greatest prey, he sees what it must be like for an animal when it is being tracked down. This change of mind makes Rainsford more understanding, as well as a more brave and tactful hunter while he is the huntee.
 * Describe the relationship between the title and the theme: **The title of "The Most Dangerous Game" fits well with the theme of unconventional cruelty. In this story, the authour does not use gory descriptions or violence, but subtle and yet frightening ideas that could be created in the mind of someone life General Zaroff if he actually existed. "The Most Dangerous Game" is more similar to a creepy 1940's horror before the special effects and typical, bloody plotlines of today. In these movies, we see thought behind what antagonists are doing to cause harm as opposed to a random killing spree in a college sorority. By using the unconventional tactic of role reversal, the protagonist is able to see that through "The Most Dangerous Game" he has ever experienced, he can learn lessons about empathy and understanding when faced with such intelligently mortifying circumstances.
 * How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? **The main conflict of the characters trying to defeat each other works very well with the theme of unconventional cruelty. The idea that General Zaroff comes up with shows this characters true lack of empathy for anyone or anything on the earth. Because of this lack of compassion, the general uses unusual ways to be cruel to the lost of Ship-Trap Island while still enjoying himself. This torture is the worst. When he goes out to "play" this game with Rainsford, the ways in which General Zaroff drags out the tension only further displays the cruelty. Such is the case when he is right below Rainsford's tree and blows a puff of smoke to signal that he knows he is there, but will wait to leave him with a sleepless night of worry on top of the pressure of trying to escape.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? **<span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">The climax illustrates the theme by showing that the general's cruelty leads Rainsford to make a potentially hazardous decision in order to ensure a small chance of survival and possible victory. After Rainsford jumps off the cliff, General Zaroff is able to walk home, have a meal, and rest, meanwhile Rainsford is also recovering from the jump and swimming across the cove. In this last act of the climax, the general puts Rainsford through one final endurance before he can give up his undefeated status and allow Rainsford to return home and claim his victory.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">**Simile:** pg. 2, par. 15 "The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window." There is no movement in the ocean at this point in the story. Plate-glass stays smooth and still similar to the way the waters of the Caribbean would have been acting at the time. The fact that the ocean is so still also adds to the mystery in the air about Ship-Trap Island. <span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">**Metaphor:** pg. 15, par. 6 "I am still a beast at bay." This means that Rainsford has not released his wrath upon General Zaroff. His is keeping his final, winning move to win the game against the general to himself, and in the process release the "beast at bay" that is his desire to return home. <span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">**Personification:** pg. 3, par. 6 "...the speeding yacht slapped him in the face..." As Rainsford falls of the edge of the boat, the spray from the ocean waves collides with the yacht in the water displacing the water in the direction of him. Though he might feel as if the yacht is "slapping" him, it is the waves crashing against the yacht that actually are. <span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">**Foreshadowing (give both elements):** pg. 2, par. 7 "The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are the hunters." pg. 12, par. 6, "Rainsford's impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther..." Over the course of the story, Rainsford's views change from superiority in being a top hunter to having the instincts of an animal he would have hunted. Prior to this comment, Whitney is suggesting that animals might have fear when being tracked and hunted. The combination of these two comments makes for some insight into a possible role reversal for Rainsford in which he becomes the prey. <span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">**Imagery:** pg. 1, par. 5,6 "...a moonless Caribbean night. It's like moist, black velvet!" The reader imagines a humid, pitch-black night where it is so dark out that the moon itself cannot be seen from behind the cover of the night.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): **
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">Symbol: **<span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">pg. 13, par. 1 "The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse." This is the point in the story where Rainsford realizes that even though he is the best hunter in the known world. On this unknown island with a perfected hunter, he will stand little chance against he hunter and must try to outsmart him while still being the huntee.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">Irony: **<span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">pg. 11, par. 9 "I drink to a foeman worthy of my steel--at last." Rainsford is someone who General Zaroff considers and equal in hunting, and at first, so does Rainsford. He believes he can outsmart the general with his techniques from around the world, but the general has already seen them all. While the top anywhere else, in an extreme circumstance such as human hunting, Rainsford finds he must use all he knows and create what he doesn't to defeat General Zaroff at his disturbing game.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story: **<span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;">The choices are made by the characters in this story are infuential to the outcome of the portrayal of the theme. The whole reason the story exists is because of Rainsford's stupid decision to lunge overboard for his pipe and end up on Ship-Trap Island in the first place. Once there and in the game, his inexperienced decisions in the jungle with Zaroff lead him to cruelty in his mind. Rainford experiences this type of cruelty through his own choices and also through the choices the general makes, such as keeping him alive for as long as he wanted "game" to hunt.

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 * QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions. /32 **

A. "He lived a year in a minute" is describing how it felt for Rainsford to be waiting so long for something eventful to happen. Because he was in his pit for what seemed like a year, he wanted to be moving and escaping, but instead felt as if he were aging and watching time pass by. One minute in this pit would have felt much longer than 60 seconds considering the tense circumstances he was in.
 * 1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”?2 /2 **

A. This quote means that Rainsford still has another trick up his sleeve, and has not shown General Zaroff all of his hunter's capabilities in "The Most Dangerous Game". Though he possesses the capabilities of a hunter, Rainsford has now seen the side of beast, and with that combined knowledge of hunter and huntee, can fully defeat General Zaroff.
 * 2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”?2 /2 **

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

A. After the war, Zaroff fled Russia and had already invested in American securities so that he would have wealth for the rest of his life. He gained a continuous flow of money so that he could afford to live on a remote island, but have all the luxuries of the world as well.
 * 4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style?1 /2 **

A. Rainsford is promised that Zaroff will give up the hunt and drop him off at a nearby town on the mainland.
 * 5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him?1 /1 **

A. Lazarus followed one of the general's huntees into a quicksand swamp called Death Swamp and died there. Zaroff was very sad at this news because Lazarus was his most prized hound dog.
 * 6. What happened to Lazarus? 2/2 **

A. Rainsford spends his first night in the jungle worrying in the branches of a thick tree hiding from General Zaroff.
 * 7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt?1 /1 **

A. 250,000 acres
 * 8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea?1 /1 **

A. He suggest this because it will give Rainsford an advantage by leaving a poorer trail behind.
 * 9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? 1/1 **

A. Rainsford believed Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree because: a) A puff of deliberate smoke was blown his way from the general's cigarette b) Zaroff's eyes looked up the tree searching for his game which he knew was there c) Before leaving, General Zaroff smirked because he knew he was winning and he knew his game's strategy Rainsford was correct for the reasons above. The general did not want to be easily tired with another short murder-frolic in the jungle, and played with Rainsford's mind to make him at first believe he was outwitting the clever general. As Rainsford's logical mind came bakc, he could clearly see that the general's signals showed that he knew where Rainsford was and that he was still undefeated.
 * 10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. 3/3 **

A. He wrecks ships on his island and takes the people on board into his "training". Once on the island, he makes sure his game are physically fit, well-nourished and strong, as well as equipped with gear to engage in the game with Zaroff before he sends them off to be hunted by himself.
 * 11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? 1/2 **

A. At the end of the story, General Zaroff thinks he has once again outsmarted his game, but is surprised to find the game he hunted waiting to finish hunting him. Rainsford and Zaroff have a short battle, leading to the death of Zaroff.
 * 12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? 2/2 **

A. Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his trap because it injures him, which is a good start considering the other game has been found and killed too quickly for General Zaroff's liking. This is a bit of a compliment on the part of Zaroff, though not completely because he wants to maintain his confidence in knowing that he is the top hunter.
 * 13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why?2 /2 **

A. He goes for days in jungle conditions, while still being affected by exhaustion. Rainsford does not seem to have his body's fatigue in his mind before the thought of General Zaroff and his pistol which proves he is not only physically, but mentally fit as well.
 * 14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? 1/2 **

A. Before Rainsford lands on the island, his beliefs are very much that of animals having no feelings and the hunt being the "best sport". His roles of hunter and hunted are very distinct; hunters claim victory and is above the huntee, who has no understanding or emotions and is to be hunted always be the hunter. After the inhumane idea of hunting General Zaroff decides would be exciting is brought up, Rainsford begins to see how some of his views might be flawed. Once he is engaged in being hunted, he truly understands that if he has fears and emotion while being a hunted human, perhaps animals feel the same. After his experience, Rainsford has a new appreciation for the game he objectively hunted and can see that his friend, Whitney's, original opinion on animal feelings may have been correct. Through "The Most Dangerous Game", Rainsford makes the jump from hunter to huntee interchangably while being tracked down by Zaroff and gains a better understanding of the feeling of being on the other side of the gun.
 * 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.)5/5 **

A. As stated earlier in the Literary Devices Document, fear can be inspired without the use of obvious bloodshed or grotesqueness. The most thrilling fear is the kind that might be possible. Although applicable in some cases, bloodshed is sometimes the "easy way out" in a story such as this one. Try thinking of your scariest experience. The fear you had in that experience is what is truly scary, as opposed to blood. Connell contorts our minds to have that scariest moment in his story. If he had choosen to use blood and gore in the fearful scenes, it would be more like a gladiator battle than a thrilling read. Blood and guts gets boring easily, whereas fear can by twisted into many forms such as Connell's usage in "The Most Dangerous Game". total 29/32
 * 16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3/3 **