“The Most Dangerous Game”
By Richard Connell
“The Most Dangerous Game”
Characters
•Sanger Rainsford, an accomplished hunter from New York.
•General Zaroff, a man of pre-Revolutionary Russian
aristocratic background. Utterly fixated on hunting.
•Ivan, Zaroff's large Cossack slave and bodyguard. He is deaf
and has no tongue, this makes him ideal to Zaroff, because Ivan
cannot tell anyone of Zaroff's murders if he escapes the island.
•Whitney, one of Rainsford's boat mates who wonders what it
would be like to be the hunted instead of the hunter.
By Richard Connell
Plot
 Definition: The sequence of events or
actions that moves a story forward
 Also: The main events in a story
 Short Version: What happens!
Basic Plot Diagram
Climax
Exposition
Resolution
Plot Element – Exposition
 Exposition – Introduces the characters,
setting, and the basic situation.
Plot Element – Rising Action
 Rising Action – The events in a story that
move the plot along by:
– Adding conflicts and complications
– Expanding the conflicts already presented
Plot Element – Climax
 Climax – The high point of interest or
suspense
Plot Element – Falling Action
 Falling Action – The sequence of events that
follow the climax and end in the resolution
showing the effects of the catastrophe.
Plot Element – Resolution
 Resolution – The end of the story, the
conclusion
Basic Plot
Diagram
Climax
Rainsford hides in Zaroff’s room
6. Rainsford jumps into Sea
to escape
5. Rainsford kills a dog and Ivan
Rainsford and
Zaroff fight
4. Rainsford told that Zaroff is
going to hunt him
3. Rainsford finds mansion
and meets Ivan and Zaroff
2.
1.
Rainsford finds blood
and gun shell
Rainsford swims to
Ship-Trap Island
Exposition
Whitney and Rainsford going to hunt
Jaguars. When they pass Ship-Trap
Island, Rainsford falls overboard.
Resolution
That night General Zaroff is back in his
mansion. He is annoyed with the thought of
having to replace Ivan and he is slightly
irked because one of his prey has escaped.
He goes up to bed and switches on the
light. A man is hiding behind the curtains.
It is Rainsford. Zaroff congratulates him on
winning the game, but Rainsford informs him
that they are still playing. That night,
Rainsford sleeps with immense enjoyment
in Zaroff s comfortable bed.
The Most Dangerous Notes
1. ______________ is the name of the main
character
2. They are on their way to _____________.
3. The island that they are passing is called
______________.
4. _________ hears ___________.
5. __________ falls off the yacht trying to
_______________
The Most Dangerous Notes
6. He swims towards ____________.
7. As he walked in the jungle Rainsford found
a ____________.
8. He was greeted by a giant named
___________.
9. He then met __________________.
10. Rainsford ________ books on Hunting.
11. Zaroff is _________ of hunting.
12. Zaroff tells Rainsford that he
____________ on the island.
The Most Dangerous Notes
13. Rainsford ____________ to go hunting.
14. Zaroff wanted to show Rainsford his
collection of ______________.
15. Zaroff decides to __________ Rainsford.
16. What are the rules to Zaroff’s game?
17. Rainsford slept ________________.
18. Draw a small picture of any of the traps
that Rainsford set for the General.
The Most Dangerous Notes
19. Rainsford killed one of the dogs by
_______________.
20. The trick with the knife killed
____________.
21. __________ wins the game.
22. The story ends with _______________.