Throughout this journal, Zaroff can be characterized as confident and wacky. First, he can be considered as a confident man. In addition, the introduction of himself to Rainsford can be a detail by his speaking tone. Also, how he collaborates with Rainsford such as shake hands is a detail too. For example, “Another man was coming down the broad marble steps, an erect, slender man in evening clothes. He advanced to Rainsford and held out his hand. In a cultivated voice marked by a slight accent that gave it added precision and deliberateness, he said, ‘it is a very great pleasure and honor to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, to my home’” (Connells 4). According to the quote, it exposes the tone of his voice was talking to a friend that he cognized for a long time. …show more content…
Second, he can also be considered of wacky. For example, he likes to hunt, but the prey is human. Also, the animal heads in the hall also explains he is wacky. Another example, “‘I wanted the ideal animal to hunt,’ explained the general. ‘So I said, `what are the attributes of an ideal quarry?' And the answer was, of course, `it must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason…Great Guns, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder.’”(Connells 11). Referring to the quote, it exposes how Zaroff tells about the prey and Rainsford got surprised. He even tells Rainsford that he hunts different types of people. Ultimately, Zaroff can be characterized as confident and wacky because of the way he collaborates and why he hunts
He then wondered what to do from there and decided to jump into the sea and swim along the shore to Zaroff’s house. He had been swimming away from the hounds and soon made it to Zaroff’s bedroom to hide and waiting for him to arrive. Zaroff then finished eating and came upstairs. He went to the window then found Rainsford in the curtains and he was shocked to see him there. Zaroff then congratulated Rainsford and “Zaroff said with a deep bow, One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds.
Despite all of General Zaroff’s success, fortune and his appeared attitude, Zaroff is in many ways not civilized. Civilized means being polite, well-mannered or treating others with respect. Well Zaroff treats Rainsford good at first evident by giving him a cocktail, treating him to a meal, and hoping to hunt with him until he says “I wish to leave this island at once”. This quote hit Zaroff in his heart.
Climax Zaroff wants to hunt down his guest like a “beast”. Now rainsford finds himself being the pray. Rainsford don't like that feeling. Now it's life or death for rainsford.
This speech was given on September 2004. Zell Miller (G-GA) was chosen to give the keynote address to the Republican Convention, whose theme was “ Fulfilling America’s Premise by building a Safer World and a more hopeful America.” This was a rather unusual choice became, he was a Conservative Democrat. Miller had been consistently voting with the Republicans, especially on the subject of military strength. Zell Miller uses rhetorical devices in the speech about having a strong military.
Zaroff said, "I wanted the ideal animal to hunt," (3). Rainsford said no because he wanted to be a hunter not a murderer. He believes that humans have feelings unlike animals. Zaroff then decides to hunt him. Rainsford begins to experience what it 's like to be an
Great guns, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder.” (10.) ‘’ Here, General Zaroff hints that he is looking for a human to hunt, and Rainsford is disgusted of his idea or becoming a murderer. About halfway through the story Zaroff turns on Rainsford and bullies him into playing his game. ‘’ Under one arm he carried khaki hunting clothes, a haversack of food, a leather sheath containing a long
This part goes back to when Reinsford was hiding in the tree. General Zaroff was messing with Rainsford, and this shows how he got that idea into Reinsford’s mind. “The general’s eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree. Rainsford froze there, every muscle tensed for a spring. But the sharp eyes of the hunter stopped before they reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread across his brown face.”
Richard Connell defines the character Zaroff through appearance perfectly in his short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” In the story, Zaroff is described to be a middle aged man. He later says that when he was five years old he had a gun and shot his first bear at ten, which means that he has had to be hunting for very many years. The adventure tale also tells the readers that Zaroff has a “face of a man used to giving orders,” and this can reveal that he is used to being in charge and having things go his way. Zaroff is also depicted as a well dressed man with a “face of an aristocratic.”
Most people when they hear “The Most Dangerous Game” they think of bull riding or other dangerous games that don’t involve death. “The Most Dangerous Game” is a suspenseful cliff hanging story that follows the days of a castaway on the island of a crazed hunter. Rainsford is a big game hunter who falls off a boat near the island of General Zaroff, a big Cossack general who is looking for an alternative to hunting dangerous animals but with a twist. Throughout “The Dangerous Game” Rainsford and General Zaroff both show examples of IRony and exert arrogance.
In their eyes were watching god, it allows us to enter into the life of janie. Janie is one of our main characters who is longing for love. In the begining she was forced to marry and old man who she had no feelings for, she stayed hopeful that one day she would find the love she was searching for, and eventualy she did... well she atleast she thought she did. Zora Neal the author shows how even in the black community, women are treated the same as anyone else.
Rainford exposes his selfishness and lack of empathy by saying, “‘Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes-the hunters and the huntees. Luckily you and I are hunters’”(2). His actions throughout the story show his cruelty too. Rainsfords profession is killing animals, and while he does
Tanner Toussaint In the short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, Rainsford is justified in killing General Zaroff. One of the reasons why Rainsford is justified in killing General Zaroff is on the island the only way to live is to hunt or to be the one being hunted. Secondly, Rainsford is justified in killing General Zaroff because Zaroff wanted to die. Lastly, Rainsford is justified in killing General Zaroff because killing Zaroff is going to be the only way Rainsford will escape the island from a psychopath.
When Rainsford asks if Zaroff hunts cape buffalo, Zaroff states “ ‘[No,] I hunt more dangerous game’ (17)”. This foreshadows him revealing that he hunts men. This builds suspense because the reader doesn’t know yet what this “dangerous game” is, but they know it probably isn’t good. The author utilizes
General Zaroff first proves this when he says, "The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure" (Connell 7). General Zaroff has been hunting his whole life and it has become just an easy game he plays. Although General Zaroff loved hunting, he wanted a challenge so he looked for a new animal to be his game. General Zaroff finally says the only animal capable of his preferences are humans when he says, "It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason" (Connell 6). General Zaroff is utterly surprised by why Rainsford thinks so highly of human life and has no problem to continue taking human life.
“So often, in our quest to be popular and to be part of the ‘in-group’ we lose sight of things that are far more important.” To me this quote means that we’re so obsessed with being a part of a group or a person’s life, that doesn’t care about us to the point where we forget about the people who do care. The quote is somewhat meaningful to me because when I was younger, around eight years old, I got new neighbors and I really wanted to be their friends with them because I had no desire to be lonely after getting home and finishing my homework. I tried everything for them to befriend me, and once they did I saw that it wasn’t work all the time and effort I put in. They ended up being awfully rude and only wanted to be around me when they wanted