User:Atcovi/Short Story Project Info

Protagonist Paragraph
The protagonist for the "Most Dangerous Game" is Rainsford. Rainsford is a dynamic character, so Rainsford's personality is very different from the beginning of the book and the end of the book. In the beginning of the book, Rainsford was a witty, skillful and ruthless hunter who had a passion for hunting, an example of this is that he wrote books about hunting, which was read by thousands and thousands of people, including Zaroff. He was on his way to the Amazon to hunt when he fell off his boat and eventually swam to Ship-Trap Island, the infamous island which sailors came into but never went out.

Eventually, after meeting with Zaroff and Ivan at Zaroff's huge palace-like house, Rainsford realizes that Zaroff is a cold-blooded murderer. After being refused to leave the island, he is to decide whether to play a hunting game, where he has to survive for 3 days out in the island or be slowly tortured by Ivan. He decides to play the game, and therefore, the problem Rainsford faces [after accepting the game] is surviving Zaroff's hunting game. Fortunately, Rainsford ends up winning the game by killing Zaroff in the end (by pushing him down to his dogs, who eat him alive). After the ordeal, he comes to the realization of the pain and frightening state of mind that the prey goes through when it is being hunted, and subsequently, quits hunting, and becomes a caring and civilized human being in the end of the "Most Dangerous Game".

His physical description is not known to us in the book.

Vocabulary
 Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: Dark, musty Sentence form the textbook: "...remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night" (pg. 18). Original sentence: "It is too dank to play football".

 Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: Capable of being touched/felt Sentence from the textbook: "The dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick, warm blackness upon the yacht" (pg. 18). Original sentence: "You seemed to be palpable to me even though you live in Tahiti, Louise".

 Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: Laziness Sentence from the textbook: "Rainsford, reclining in a steamer chair, indolently puffed on his favorite brier" (pg. 18). Original sentence: "I indolently kicked the ball, which is why I missed the goal!".

Plot Paragraph
The story starts out as Rainsford and his hunting partner, Whitney, sailing a yacht across the moonless, dank Carribean sea. Rainsford, while trying to figure out the source of gunshots that he heard of in the distance, falls overboard and into the ocean (Man vs. Nature - Rainsford struggling to survive in the ocean). Rainsford manages to keep himself alive and swims to Ship-Trap Island. The story then transitions over to the island and then to Zaroff's house.

On the island, he makes his way to a very large and beautiful house, which turns out to be a well-trained Russian hunter named General Zaroff's house and his companion, Ivan. Rainsford meets Zaroff and Ivan, and learns about his growing boredom for hunting and his "dangerous game" that Zaroff "invented". After a discussion with Zaroff about his "dangerous game", Rainsford finds out that Zaroff's new animal for hunting is humankind. Zaroff then asks Rainsford if he wants to join him (Man vs. Himself - has to decide whether to join Zaroff in being a murderer or not). Rainsford, appalled by this, demands Zaroff to take him out of the island.

Zaroff refuses and instead presents him to two options:
 * Play a hunting game, which is that he is given a few items and is launched off into the wilderness to survive for 3 days without being caught by Zaroff.
 * Slowly tortured to death by Ivan

(Man vs. Himself - Rainsford has to decide whether to accept the game or be tortured by Ivan)--Rainsford accepts the game and scurries out into the wilderness (Man vs Man, Rainsford vs Zaroff - being Rainsford trying to survive Zaroff's hunting game). Eventually, after several unsuccessful attempts to kill Zaroff, by the use of traps, Rainsford jumps into the sea--which is the climax of the story. Zaroff, thinking that he had won the game, goes into his house and sleeps. The story then transitions back to Zaroff's house.

Rainsford, who managed to swim to the other side of the island and make his way to Zaroff's house, presents himself to Zaroff. Zaroff, astonished, admits defeat--but Rainsford disagreed harshly, and said that he will only win the game if he kills Zaroff.

The resolution is that Rainsford and Zaroff fight to the death (Man vs. Man, Rainsford vs Zaroff - Rainsford fights Zaroff to the death). Rainsford wins the fight by pushing Zaroff downstairs, where his hungry dogs have been residing, and is, consequently, eaten to death.