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Essay On The Most Dangerous Game Literary Analysis

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Rainsford is an important character in the story “The Most Dangerous Game”, Because of his conflict he’s had on other main characters in the story. Who is Rainsford? Rainsford is a person that loves to hunt, and also studies
About the animals he loves to hunt. What the story most Dangerous game is about, it’s a story of a person who enjoys hunting, which is Rainsford, and a bored psychopath named general Zaroff who thinks hunting people is okay. One night on a boat, Rainsford and his crew were traveling the ocean, and suddenly, Mr. Rainsford heard a very loud scream. Then proceeds to go on a rail on the boat, and tries searching for the scream in the area he heard it in. Then a gunshot goes off, BOOOOOOOOOM! Rainsford falls off the boat into the ocean screaming for help. But no-one on the boat can hear him because everyone else is asleep. Swimming to an island know as Dead Man’s Island, Rainsford is forced to do to the fact that no-one can help him. When he arrives, he ran into a mysterious person named General Zaroff. When they meet they have dinner together, share stories, then general gave Rainsford some new clothes etc. Then the general told …show more content…

The story, “The Sniper; almost has the same conspiracy as “The Most Dangerous Game, except instead of hunting people for fun, This Story is about WAR!!!! One June Night in Ireland, a sniper was posted up on a rooftop, preparing for his targets. Finally, he spots his enemy or enemies in a rival armored truck, and spots a turret. The trucks fires repeatedly and the sniper fires at the turret and the bullet aimed at the rival is hit! The enemy truck goes off into the distance. An enemy sniper fires but the main sniper but is not hit. The main sniper flees onto the other side of his roof and he and the other sniper, began firing at each other back and forward for a while. Finally, the main Sniper has been hit. But fires back at the other sniper and the other sniper is

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