The Most Dangerous Game El juego mas peligroso

He is terrified of going to Ship-trap Island.

He doesn’t respect Whitney.

He doesn’t have much compassion for the animals he hunts.

He is arrogant and disliked by the shipmates.

foreshadowing and hyperbole

irony and allusion

imagery and personification

allusion and personification

light-hearted and mysterious

quiet and unobtrusive

onimous and mysterious

intriguing and humorous

He must avoid a pack of vicious dogs.

He must escape from the château.

He must save himself from the ocean.

He must speak to Ivan.

timid and shy

evil and grotesque

gracious and affable

insane and menacing

“There is no greater bore than perfection.”

“I had to invent a new animal to hunt.”

“Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the strong.

“My hand was made for the trigger, my father said.”

hide

communicate

fly

reason

personification

alliteration

onomatopoeia

simile

They are the crew of ships that wreck on the island because of his channel lights he has set up.

They are prisoners that passing ships sell to him.

He imports them from the mainland.

They are natives on the island that he has slowly been hunting to the point of extinction.

take Ivan’s place as his assistant

agree to go hunting with him

teach him something about hunting

help him find some people to hunt

It is smaller and easier to carry through the dense jungle.

It is quieter than other caliber guns, so he can be more stealthy.

It is more powerful than other weapons.

It makes the hunt more of a challenge for him.

It foreshadows that General Zaroff is inviting Rainsford to play a deadly game with him.

Like Rainsford, the reader knows that the general wants to show off his collection of human heads.

Rainsford is about to be tricked into being locked in the library before he is to be hunted.

The animal heads on the walls of the library set an eerie mood in the story.

become General Zaroff’s prey

use violence against General Zaroff

endanger General Zaroff’s servant

resort to deceit and trickery

two weeks

three days

one night

one month

prove that he is a better hunter than Zaroff

prove that his ideas about hunting men are right

save the lives of Zarrof’s prisoners

avoid being tortured and killed by Ivan

is tired

wants the game to continue

feels sorry for Rainsford

underestimated Rainsford's abilities

“He knew it would be insane to blunder on through the dark. . . .”

“Rest brought him new confidence and almost a feeling of security.”

“Night found him leg-weary, with hands and face lashed by the branches . . . .”

“ . . . awakened by a sound that made him know that he had new things to learn about fear.”

Rainsford pushes Ivan off a cliff.

The hunting dogs attack Ivan.

Ivan is crushed by a falling tree.

A knife flies into Ivan’s body.

to make repetition the focal point of the paragraph

to lessen the descriptive imagery because the scene is just action

to reflect that the thoughts pervading the character’s mind are simple

to build suspense in a climactic moment

Ivan silently takes orders from General Zaroff.

General Zaroff lives on an isolated island.

General Zaroff has many mounted animal heads.

Most of the story takes place in the dark.

fighting a duel with General Zaroff

being chased by a pack of hunting dogs

struggling in the currents of the frothing

sea

sleeping in General Zaroff’s bedroom

It reveals that the sea is harsh, cruel, and unrelenting.

because later he will be saved by the sea

It emphasizes the conflict that Rainsford has with surviving.

because he is saying it sarcastically

General Zaroff had an exceedingly good dinner in his great paneled dining hall that evening.

Then he leaped far out into the sea…

He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.

Rainsford knew now how an animal at bay feels.