C. He wrote this also to excite the reader and have an unexpected ending. D. This author did an amazing job with this story because it’s a story with an all around great plot, resolution, and climax. V. Conclusion A. “The Most Dangerous Game” was the most exciting short story that I read and that’s why I picked it for my research paper B. This story takes place during the 1970’s on and island in the Caribbean
Kill the pig, cut her throat, spill the blood' We first hear this when Jack as his hunters kill their first pig. This is a political allegory because Jack leads the group when they chant this and makes them usually say it every time they kill a pig, showing his dominant power. “next time there will be no mercy” Jack struggling between 2 sides, civilized side and the vicious, savage side within him. No longer can suppress the inner evil. ‘An Awesome stranger’- Focalisation is used by Golding here to give reader an idea of Jack’s point of view of the island- turning savage and primal degenerating (opposite of evolving.)
Rainsford chased by General Zaroff, using his experience and wits to cunningly escape from the hunter and even wounding him with traps. He eventually kills Zaroff as a result; Rainsford becomes the most dangerous game on Zaroff’s island. The most dangerous game as General Zaroff suggests, appears on his island, even though he may be referring to Rainsford because of his hunting experience and only says sailors are in his basement as to disguise this. {x}Stopped{x} General Zaroff, a Cossack, has hunted game for many years and he has grown weary of hunting them for it has become too predictable and no longer amusing, so he looks for alternate forms of entertainment. Retaining his position of control he makes the ship wrecked play a game of hunted and hunter.
Spill his blood! Do him in!” (168). By becoming so carried away and building up such desire to kill, the boys mistake Simon for the beast and murder him instantly. Finally, the boys’ savagery is also portrayed in the murder of Piggy. Nobody was allowing Piggy the opportunity to speak his mind, disregarding any of his opinions.
Write about the significance of the ways three writers you have studied create and use suspense in their narratives. In order to answer this question, the definition of suspense must be settled. Oxford dictionary refers to it as “a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen”, while Francois Truffaut puts it as “the whodunit is a question of what – “you simply wait to find out who committed the murder” – while suspense is a question of how…” Clearly, suspense plays a major role in dramatic works of media – whether that be a book or a play, for that matter. Nevertheless, this essay will explore the significance of suspense in The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, and some works of Robert Frost. In Kite Runner, the author uses suspense to keep interest with the reader, and mark out the most critical points in the narrative.
On the third day, Rainsford is hunted by Zaroff’s hounds where he manages to kill Ivan (Zaroff’s slave), but plunges off a cliff to what Zaroff assumes to be his death. Rainsford swims to the castle and meets Zaroff inside his bedroom. Zaroff admits defeat but a more savage side of Rainsford comes out to finish the game that Zaroff corrupted. This story shows that someone’s actions can effected by their immediate environment. In this case, Rainsford goes from civilized to savage.
Sailors feared this island and Rainsford thought it was just outright imagination. The sky is filled with darkness when suddenly; he hears three gun shots followed by more shots again and again. A piercing scream startles Rainsford and the pipe he is smoking falls out of his mouth and into the sea below. As he tries to reach for it he falls into the water and no one hears him scream. His only chance for survival is to swim.
Over dinner they talk about their hunting experiences and about big game. General Zaroff explains he has hunted everything and has become bored with it. When Rainsford discovers the General is suggesting the idea of hunting humans he does not approve and calls Zaroff a murderer not a hunter. After refusing to go hunting with Zaroff, Rainsford is now in the reverse role of being the hunted. In Richard Connell’s short story, The Most Dangerous Game, Connell shows irony in a dramatic and verbal way.
Most Dangerous Game Literary Techniques In almost every story there is a theme that the writer tries to get across to the reader as he or she reads the story. By using literary techniques such as suspense, irony, foreshadowing and other techniques Connell explains that a person who has overconfidence if not careful slip into a downward spiral. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, Connell uses these elements to help the reader discover the theme of his story, that everything, regardless if it is an animal or human, has emotions and feelings, such as the prey of a hunter experiencing fear, which Rainsford experiences first hand. “This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily I'm the hunter.
Brandon Dunning Mr. Robel English 2 November 5, 2010 Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding, reveals the inner evil in human society. It shows that human kind is hopeless when it comes to evil and that it can take over anybody. William Golding did a good job showing how evil can gradually take someone over. For these kids stuck on the island it was only a matter of time before they turned evil and became hopeless. When the boys were deciding who should be chief and who should be hunters, the group decided Ralph should be the chief and the choir boys should be the hunters.