The Most Dangerous Game Study Guide
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Hey 8th graders, We started reading “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell in class today. If you are interested in reading on your own (reading is the best!) you can. As I said in class, you will be completing study guide questions related to the story.
You can find a. The answers to these questions are due on Friday, December 9th. I recommend starting today as there are 21 questions. Write your answers in full sentences on loose leaf paper with a full heading (you create your L.O. As a reminder, on Friday you will turn in two assignments:. Completed vocabulary sheet for “The Most Dangerous Game”.
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Study Guide Prepared by Michael J. © 2008 Type of Work and Year of Publication “The Most Dangerous Game” is short story of adventure and suspense that conveys a serious message. It was published in Collier's magazine on January 19, 1924.
It won Richard Connell his second O. Henry Award for short fiction. The Title: a Double Meaning The word game in the title of the story has two meanings: (1) human beings as Zaroff's quarry and (2) the competition, or game, between the hunter (Zaroff) and the hunted (Rainsford and other human quarry). Setting The action takes place shortly after the First World War.
The story opens in the Caribbean on a Brazil-bound yacht and continues on a mysterious Caribbean island. Characters Sanger Rainsford: American big-game hunter and author who saw action in France in the First World War. He exhibits no pity or sympathy for the animals he hunts. Then, ironically, he himself becomes a hunted animal after he arrives on a mysterious island. Rainsford is the story's protagonist, or main character. Whether his experience on the island changes his attitude toward hunted animals is open to question.
General Zaroff: Russian big-game hunter from an aristocratic family in the Crimea, a Ukraine peninsula that was part of Russia until recent times. Zaroff is bored with killing typical game such as tigers, elephants, asnd water buffalo. Instead, he hunts the ultimate trophy animal: man. Zaroff, a Cossack, commanded a cavalry division in the Russian army until the bolsheviks revolted in 1917 and installed a communist government that abolished aristocracy and the class system. Zaroff went off then and established a new world for himself on a remote Caribbean island. There he maintains his aristocratic lifestyle in his palatial home while pursuing his barbaric hobby. One might call him a civilized savage.
The Most Dangerous Game Study Guide Key
The Most Dangerous Game Study Guide
Whitney: Hunting partner of Rainsford. Ivan: Zaroff's Russian servant and hunting partner. Like Zaroff, he is a Cossack. Ivan is a giant, the biggest man Rainsford has ever seen. Because he is a deaf mute, Ivan hears no evil and speaks no evil but simply does Zaroff's bidding.
Neilsen: Captain of the yacht taking Rainsford and Whitney to Brazil. He is referred to but plays no active role in the story. Crewmen of the San Lucar: Shipwrecked sailors held captive in Zaroff's cellar. The general plans to use them as quarry. They play no active role in the story. Plot Summary.