“The Most
Dangerous Game”
By Richard Connell
EXPOSITION
•introduction of the story’s
–setting
–characters
–situation
EXPOSITION
• Setting: yacht headed
towards the Amazon
• Characters: Whitney &
Rainsford, expert hunters
• Situation: travelling to the
Amazon to hunt jaguars
HOOK
• The point at which the
author captures the
reader’s attention by
establishing the conflict
Hook
• Rainsford falls overboard
• initial conflict--man vs.
nature b/c Rainsford must
fight the sea and swim to
the island to survive.
RISING ACTION
• Complications are
added to the story
RISING ACTION
• Rainsford meets General
Zaroff.
• Zaroff describes the
“game” to Rainsford
• Zaroff hunts Rainsford.
CLIMAX
• The point of the reader’s
greatest interest
• the point where the author
indicates how the conflict
may be resolved.
CLIMAX
• General Zaroff
discovers Rainsford
in his bedroom.
FALLING ACTION
• General Zaroff and
Rainsford fight.
RESOLUTION
• Reveals the outcome
of the climax
RESOLUTION
• Rainsford wins the
battle with Zaroff and
sleeps in the bed.
SETTING
The
–time
–place
of a story
SETTING
• Time: several years
after the Russian
Revolution
• Place: Ship-Trap Island
CONFLICT
•A struggle between 2
opposing forces
–internal conflict
–external conflict
CONFLICT
•internal conflict:
opposing forces within
a person’s mind
• man vs self
CONFLCT
• external conflict:
–a conflict b\w 2 characters
(man vs. man),
–b\w a character & nature
(man vs. nature),
–b\w a character & society
(man vs. society)
CONFLICT
• External: man vs. man
• Zaroff hunts
men/Rainsford