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QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions. /32

1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2 Rainford felt so much emotion and fear that a minute was felt so extremely that it seemed to take a year.

2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2 Rainford still felt threatened like a hunted animal by Zaroff, even though he had 'won'.

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

4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2 His father had lots of land and he had invested in American securities.

5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1 That Rainford will be brought near a town on the mainland.

6. What happened to Lazarus? /2 He followed someone into the quicksand...

7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1 Up in a tree.

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

9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1 So he would leave less of a trail for Zaroff to follow, giving Rainford a higher chance to win, and making for a more interesting and difficult hunt 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 Because he smiled at the tree and very pointedly blew a smoke ring. Also, Zaroff wanted to play with Rainford and let him know just how well he could hunt, and to scare him more.

11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2 He fakes a safe channel for ships and then they crash into rocks and the sailors swim ashore.

12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2 He became the hunted, and was killed by Rainford.

13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? /2 He is pleased by Rainford's hunting knowledge, because he, unlike the sailors, knows how to hunt and go on the offensive a little bit. He sees how Rainford is his hunting equal.

14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2 We know because he could swim well enough to get to shore from the yacht and enough to try and attempt to swim from the cliff to the chateau (strong delibetate strokes), and he climbed and ran from Zaroff without getting overly exhausted.

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 the island, Rainford thinks that animals are animals. It's alright to hunt them because humans are hunters, and animals are for hunting. "You're a big game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how the jaguar feels" he says to Whitney. After having the roles reversed, and feeling how it is to be the hunted, he has experienced the fear of being hunted and sees how the difference between hunting and murder is small. He realizes even animals can feel fear.

16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3 He inspires fear by creating tension and suspense. While Rainford is in the tree, he knows that Zaroff is near, and he can't do much.Zaroff has a gun and will easily shoot him. He comes closer, and closer, and closer... But then he leaves, keeping the tension elevated, and prolonged. Also, lots of foreshadowing keeps the reader guessing what will happen next. His conversation about the roles of hunter/huntee, the gunshots, and "what perils that tangle of trees and underbrush might hold for him did not concern Rainford just then..." _

Point of View: Third person

Protagonist: Rainford

What type of character is the Protagonist? Round Dynamic

Antagonist: Zaroff

Describe the setting A Caribbean island covered in dense jungle, with a grand chateau. It goes over the course of about 4 days. The mood is slightly scary, because first the island is considered haunted by sailors, then because of Zaroff's creepy game.

Type of Conflict: Man vs Man and Man vs Himself

Describe the main conflict: Zaroff hunting Rainford, and some Rainford trying to keep his nerve even though he's scared.

Describe the Climax of the Story: When Rainford is chased by the dogs and jumps off the cliff.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? Read Question 15, above.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title is the Most Dangerous Game,either meaning dangerous things to hunt, and a dangerous entertainment game. The theme is that when positions or roles are reversed, you can see different perspectives and experience different views. First Rainford is a hunter, then he becomes hunted by Zaroff, then he hunts Zaroff. 'Game' can be something you hunt, and hunting can be dangerous if you are hunting tigers or something like that. If you are hunting tigers and the tiger finds you before you find it, you may become the game of the game of your game (you may become hunted by the thing you were hunting while hunting is a game for you.)

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict is Zaroff hunting Rainford, who used to be the hunter. The theme is about how reversing roles can give you different views. Rainford the hunter became the hunted,

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax is when Rainford is running from Zaroff's dogs and jumps off the cliff. First, before the island, Rainford was a hunter. The island made him become the hunted, and jumping off the cliff gave him a chance at being the hunter again by surprising Zaroff. The climax was a reversal of roles from hunted to hunter again, which relates to the changing of positions and thus the differing views.

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

Simile: night 'like moist black velvet'

Metaphor: The weapons for the players in Zaroff's game (gun and knife) represent Zaroff's expectations of survival for each player.

Personification: 'the wash of the speeding yacht slapped him in the face'

Symbol: When Zaroff grinds the walnut beneath his heel, it is a symbol of how Rainford's hope that he has found safety (and sanity). When he crushed the nut, he also showed Rainford how he tricked ships into hitting the island and sinking so he got more game in his game.

Foreshadowing (give both elements): '`but there was one small trait of the general's that made Rainford uncomfortable' is the first hint that something might not be right on Zaroff's island, and it turns out that Zaroff has a creepy, evil game where he hunts people around the island.

Irony: That Zaroff's 'life' (hunting) is the end of him. He says 'hunting had been my life', and his 'life' eventually killed him (his hunting game drew the game in his game to finish him off.)

Imagery: 'jagged crags appeared to jut into the opaqueness'

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. An aspect of humanity is how humans need positions and roles to be changed to see other views because they don't always realize how something they do or accept can impact one another. After seeing other sides/views of something they have empathy for others in either situation because of experience. Rainford was a hunter without empathy for the animals he hunted, until he saw through Zaroff's game how it felt to be hunted. Then he realized it really wasn't a pleasant feeling. Also, he saw how Zaroff held his game just for his entertainment, and without consideration for how the soldiers felt. Rainford saw how Zaroff had little consideration for others, and he would have carried throughout his life. It would have been good for Zaroff to be the hunted for once, though he may have been so set in his hunter role that he never would have changed. That is another aspect of humanity; habits. Habits are another part of the theme of this story because to change your views and your ways, you seed to be set and accustomed to another view. If Rainford wasn't a hunter, he might not have been so affected by the reversal of roles and by becoming hunted. He was very used to being a hunter, so he could contrast the difference between the roles.

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