Every second of your life, your stepping into the unknown. You do not know what will happen next until it occurs. That's what happened In the short story the ¨Lady or the Tiger¨ a barbarian King has a unique way of punishment. When he finds out an underclass gentleman is in love with his daughter. Also, in the short story ¨The Most Dangerous Game ¨ A famous Hunter falls off his Yacht and he ended up on ship trap island. Furthermore, he has the problem solved because it could mean life or death.Without a doubt, the short stories ¨Lady or The Tiger¨ by Stockton and ¨The Most Dangerous Game¨ by Connell, Best embodies stepping into the unknown. The author uses character and conflict to help embody stepping into the unknown in the short story …show more content…
Rainsford was on his yacht on his way to the Amazon to go jaguar hunting with one of his pals.In the process, he was smoking his cigar. He dropped it off his hat and when we want to reach for is he fell off and started to hear gunshots. Rainsford said,¨They had come from the right, and doggedly sawm in that direction¨(Conelle 2).Although it takes some thinking, Rainsford step into the unknown when he started swimming towards the island with gunshots, because he did not know what or who was being shot at. In other words, Rainsford did not know what he was going to face when he came up from the shore. This evidence is effective because it helps you understand in depth what is actually happening in the story by using the setting as a key idea. Furthermore, the author also uses conflict when implementing the motif of stepping into the unknown. General Zarraf comes up with an exquisite idea. Instead of hunting with Rainsford, he will hunt Rainsford. Zaraf pronounces strictly,¨Your brain against mine, Your woodcraft against mine, Your strength and stamina against mine¨(Conelle 14).In this case, both of General Zaroff and Rainsford are stepping into the unknown. Ethier of them know what the other is capable of. In Rainsford's situation, e might not even know what himself is capable of since he has never hunted a human before. This is
In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford fits the category of Zaroff’s ideal animal to hunt, because Rainsford displays the attribute to reason by being able to make many life saving decisions throughout the story. Rainsford has the ability to reason from the very beginning of the story, because he was able to remain calm to make a life saving decision in an unnerving situation, which proves that he fits the quarry for Zaroff to hunt. As he was in the water, he recalls the gunshots he heard while he was still on the yacht, “they had come from the right, and doggedly he swam in that direction, swimming with slow, deliberate strokes, conserving his strength” (Connell 14). Whereas most people would have panicked in the situation
Without literary devices, the stories you read would be dull and uneventful. This is why Richard Connell effectively uses similes and imagery in “The Most Dangerous Game” to help give it life. In this story, Connell used similes to give the reader a feeling of how things looked or felt. On page 19 the author wrote “...but it was like trying to see through a blanket” (Connell).
Rainsford is Alert. He demonstrated this in the beginning of the game when he first went into the forest, he tried to put as much distance between himself and the general as possible so it would be harder for Zaroff to find and kill him. “His first whole idea was to put as much distance between himself and General Zaroff (p.26)” Secondly Rainsford is intelligent because he had made various footprints going in multiple different directions,
The the book “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, has lots of challenges and conflicts throughout the whole story. Two hunters are on a yacht in the Caribbean Sea, when one falls off and washes up on an island. There, he meets General Zaroff, a man with only one desire. To hunt humans. He makes Rainsford (the man from the shipwreck), go loose on the island in order to hunt him.
This means that the General is talking about hunting men, because no animal can reason but man-kind. Rainsford then
Rainsford changes for the worse from a hunter to a murder following in Zaroff's
In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” the main character Rainsford had gotten stranded on a dangerous island where Zaroff, a Russian Cossack General, hunted humans for sport. He feels that God put the weak on earth to give the strong pleasure, and up until it was his turn to be hunted, so did Rainsford. Earlier in the story Rainsford had stated, “The world is made up of two classes-- the hunters and the huntees.” And as harsh as it may sound, it is technically correct. The world is made of hunters and huntees, predator and prey.
This example shows that Rainsford had to use his wit and mind to survive and out play his foe. Towards the end of the story Rainsford escapes by jumping off a cliff into the ocean to get away from General Zaroff. Rainsford escapes the island in a very clever way: “He reached it. It was the shore of the sea ...
Not only was rainsford in a conflict with General Zaroff he is in conflict with himself as he is finding his way to Ship Trap Island. “‘I must keep my nerve, I must keep my nerve,’ he said through tight teeth” (12). Rainsford also had a conflict with himself on the island when he was deciding what to do to get away from Zaroff. Rainsford was able to overcome the internal conflict when the dogs were chasing him and he needed to make the decision to jump into the water, fight the dogs, or climb a tree and hide. Man versus himself is very important to Connell’s story.
In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, suspense is created through the use of foreshadowing, different points of view, and cliffhangers. Without suspense, the book would be boring and uninteresting to read. The author uses these three main techniques to keep the reader engaged. First off, Connell uses foreshadowing to create suspense by using appalling words to map out the near future, and by using dialogue. The author uses dreadful words like “dark” and “cannibal” to foreshadow the daunting future.
When placed in this situation, Rainsford has transformed from being the hunter to becoming the huntee, and is now in the position of all the animals he has carelessly killed before. Towards the end of the story, while Rainsford is being hunted by Zaroff and his pack of dogs, the narrator describes how Rainsford feels by saying that: “Rainsford now knew how an animal at bay feels” (22). The sensation of extreme fear and worry had finally gotten to him, and he can relate to how the animals he hunt may
When Zaroff mentions the fact of a sailor losing his head during the hunt, Rainsford wants to leave immediately but has no choice; he has to stay. Rainsford doesn’t feel like he can trust the General and doesn’t want to agree to take part in the hunting. Rainsford believes that Zaroff can’t be trusted, “Oh, you can trust me, said the Cossack. I will give you my word as a gentleman and a sportsman. Of course you, in turn, must agree to say nothing of your visit here.
- ‘Even so, I rather think they understand one thing--fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death. ’”(Connell 18) By reading the theme the reader can infer the position Rainsford is in will drastically change. Although, Rainsford is not overtaken by the jaguar
In another instance, when Rainsford was hiding from General Zaroff, he had to convince himself not to regress to those animal-like instincts that he had developed. The text says “Rainsford’s impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther, but he saw the general’s right hand held something metallic—a small automatic pistol.” (231). As you can tell from the text, Rainsford really wanted to jump down from his hiding spot and attack the general, but he couldn’t. If he had done so, he would end up losing the game. Then, near the end of the story, Rainsford is running from the General and his pack and he sees the ocean shore and it’s deep waters below.
He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided… Rainsford awoke, frightened, but was soothed by the calming sounds of the waves crashing into either side of the yacht. Rainsford, confused, yelled out “What on earth?” He stood up, and got a little light headed since he had just woken up. The boat was rocking viciously to the left and to the right, which caused Rainsford to stumble, and almost crash down the steps going to the upper deck.