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**// Albert Price //** Scott Miller Eric McGuire Christopher Caleen THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME by Richard Connell pg. # 20 pubilished 2006 During the 1930’s money was scarce because of the great depression, so people did whatever they could to make their lives better. During the great depression America became a nightmare. The once known land of opportunity became the land of the depression. Between 1929 and 1932 the average American salary was reduced by 40% from $2,300 to $1,500. survival became the keyword.  - nature's causes - presenting lily mars - matter and becoming - substance and moderate science - the most dangerous game - from observables to unobserveables in science philosophy - the emprical intelligence: the human empirical mode: philosophy as ...  BACKGROUND INFORMATION OF RICHARD CONNELL Richard Connell was born on October 17 1893 in Poughkeepsie, New York. His father was the editor of the poughkeepsie News-Press. This made Richard Connell interested in writing. When he was 10 years old, he started to go to baseball games and was paid 10 cents per game to write a story for the game. By the time he was 18, he made city editor of the paper and his pay had risen to a whopping $16 per week. Richard went to Georgetown College for a year. while he was in college, his father died in 1912. After this he left his poughkeepsie and ended up going to a different college. This time it was Harvard. While he was in Harvard he became a editor. For a while he began to publish many articles.After being married in 1919, he sold his first short story. He was claimed to have wrote over 300 short stories. One of these stories included The most dangerous game. This story was very popular. It was so good he acuallty won a prize for the story. He continued writing until he died after suffering a heart attack on November 22 1949. Even after he died his work continued to hit the screen. He will be missed
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**__ Ivan __** 
 * 1. **** Deaf **
 * 2. **** Idiotic **
 * 3. **** Enormous (size) **
 * 4. **** Assistant/General Zaroff **
 * 5. **** Soldier/Russian Czar **
 * 6. **** Sysco **
 * 7. **** Creepy **
 * 8. **** Mischievous **
 * 9. ****  Gullible **
 * 10. **** Lugubrious **

** 1. **** Experienced **
 * 2. **** Precise **
 * 3. **** Cantankerous **
 * 4. **** Dogmatic **
 * 5. **** Fastidious **
 * 6. **** Ginger **
 * 7. **** Fierce **
 * 8. **** Gratuitous **
 * 9. **** Indelicate **
 * 10. **** Ominous **

** 1. **** Brave **
 * __ Rainsford __**
 * 2. **** Intelligent **
 * 3. **** Patient **
 * 4. **** Stealthy **
 * 5. **** Disciplined **
 * 6. **** Independent **
 * 7. **** Brave **
 * 8. **** Positive **
 * 9. **** Hunter **
 * 10. **** Respectful **
 * __ MOOD OF THE STORY __**

The mood of the story would be suspenful. It has a lot of mystery.

__**2 EXAMPLES OF SUSPENSE FROM THE STORY**__

1. PAGE 19- " Off there to the right-somewhere-is a large island" said Whitney. " its rather a mystery " 2. PAGE 20- " There was no breeze. The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window. We were drawing near the island then. What i felt was a - a mental chill: a sort of sudden dread"

1. "Hadly. Even cannibals wouldn't live in such a god-forsaken place. but its gotten into sailor lore. Didn't you notice that the crews never seemed a bit jumpy today."
 * __5 Quotes from the Most Dangerous Game__**

_ The reason why I chose this quote from the story would be because it added mystery to the begining of the the voyage that the some of the characters were going to take.

2. "Where there are pistol shots, there are men. Where there are men there is food." _ This is another wonderfull quote because it has true meanings to it. It goes well with the servival instincs that Rainsford has.

3. "The old charts called the mysterious island Ship Trap." _ This is an important quote because it added suspense to the beginig of the story.

4. "I expect rather fair sport- a big, strong black. He looks resourceful- well good night, Mr. Rainsford; I hope you have a good night's rest." _ This is a great qoute because if you listen to the words that General Zeroff says he is tryng to make Rainsford very nervouse and he also tries to make Rainsford do something idiotic, so it would be easier for the general to catch him.

5. "Nerve, nerve, verve!" _ This is a great quote because it shows a lote of nervouseness coming out of general, because Isa

__**Tone**__ Is the authors feelings towards the book. The tone of the story" The Most Dangerous Game", is rather confrontational and very sequential. My reason towards me saying that it is very confrontational is because Rainsford is put up to a challenge when he had to survive 3 days and night in the forest on the island without being hunted down by General Zaroff. Another reason why it is confrontational is because the two main characters came to a hostile disagreement about hunting out people, for fun, this was a little hostile. My other example of the tone is is sequentail. My reason twords me saying that it is very sequential is because the characters in the story did not fight or argue about general Zaroff hunting him for 3 days and nights. It was described by each night and day what and where the general was and where Rainford was hiding at, ex. on top of a tree, swimming in the ocean.

Summery 1. Rainsford and his friend are going hunting, sailing on the Caribean Sea 2. Heard three gun shots on the shipwreck island 3. Rainsford found a .22 pistol cartlige 4.Rainsford found his way to a palatial cha'teau 5. Rainsfor meets Ivan and General Zeroff 6. General Zeroff hunts humens for fun 7. Rainsford is released into the jungle 8. Rainsford has to hide for 3 days and nights/uncaught by Zeroff too 9. Rainsford made a trap to kill general Zeroff but only hurts his sholdiers 10. Rainsford faces the harsh weather during the night and day 11. Rainsford made another trap by the swamps, the dogs fall into the pit, general is still alright 12. Rainsfrod made another finale trap including a nife 13. Ivan dies when the blade goes through him 14. Rainsford reaches the beach and swims to the palatia cha'teau 15. Wone the hunting game, got to play another game with the general

Setting The setting of the story "The Most Dangerouse Game", takes place on an island off of the Caribbean sea. The island is called ship-wreck island. It is full of a heavy condensed forest, with the ocean surrounding and in the one corner of the jungle their is a deadly swamp with quicksand holes, some of the story also takes place in the platatia cha'teau/ general house.

Plot Definition- Plot is the organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story. 1. __Expostion-__ ex. The expostion occures when the Rainsford swims to the island finds the mansion and meats Ivan and Zeroff and when they talk about hunting, disagreements occurers when Zeroff brages about hunting more exiting game, man.

2. __Rising Action-__ ex. The rising actions starts to play when Rainsford tells Zeroff that it is wrong to hunt other people for funl, general Zeroff tells Rainsford if he does not want to hunt with him, he will be giving a choice of playing the 3 day game or take it up with Ivan.

3. __Climax -__ ex. The climax occurs when Rainsford sets a trap to kill general Zeroff, but only hurts his shoulders, when Zeroff was looking around to find where Zeroff was in the high forest he did not find him. This was the climax because if the general found him he would have killed him with his pistol, and you aslo did not know what Rainsford was going to do, because it said that he just wanted to leap from the tree, but he did not,

4. __Falling Action__ -ex The falling action had occured when the general and Rainsford fought in the bedroom to decide on who should live.

5. __Reselution__ -ex The reselution is answered when Rainsford has decided that it is the best bed that he had ever slept in.

6. __Denouement__ -ex The denouement takes place in the platatia cha'teau/ the generals house.

Piont of View The piont of the this story is told in first person, it uses I and any time you use I in the story it usually is told by the main character. In this story, it is told by Rainsford who oversees the whole stroy.