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Plot :The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell
Exposition
Rising Action
Setting 1920
1.Rainsford falls off the yacht and swims
Caribbean Island—Ship-Trap Island
to Ship-Trap Island.
Sanger Rainsford—Protagonist
2.Rainsford meets General Zaroff and
General Zaroff—Antagonist
Ivan.
Minor Character Ivan
3. Rainsford finds out the game is
humans and that Zaroff plans to hunt him.
Rainsford becomes the hunted.
Falling Action
Rainsford sleeps in the most comfortable
of beds.
Resolution
Not all stories have a resolution. This one
leaves us with questions. What will
Rainsford do next? Do you think he will
continue the “most dangerous game”? do
you think he will return to Whitney and
continue hunting?
Class Notes: Literature section
Climax
Rainsford jumps off the cliff on the third
day of the hunting. He gets to the chalet
and hides in Zaroff’s bedroom. Zaroff nd
Rainsford fight. Rainsford wins.
Irony—The sea that could kill him also
saves him by helping him get away from
Zaroff.
Conflict
External:
Character versus another character:
Rainsford versus Zaroff.
Internal:
Rainsford versus self. He is faced with the
reality of his “sport” and needs to decide if
hunting is really sport or cruel. He needs
to decide how he is going to proceed.
Point of view: Third person omniscient. Told from a all knowing point of view, the narrator is not a character in the story and
comments on the action. The narrator knows everything about the characters and events and may reveal details that the characters
themselves could not reveal.