The most Dangours Game

Summarize the conversation about the jaguar and fear

"Who cares how a jaguar feels?" Rainsford claims "this hot weather is making you soft, Whitney" when Whitney suggests that jaguars "understand one thing fear." Rainsford laughs off this theory, reminding Whitney that "the world is made up of two classes the hunters and the huntees."

Solicitous

(adj.) showing concern or care; fearful or anxious about someone or something

Palpable

(of a feeling or atmosphere) so intense as to seem almost tangible.

Explain with detail General Zaroff's character (qualities, traits, how he treats people, etc.)

General Zaroff is shown as insane, competitive, and mean. General Zaroff is shown to be insane in the story when he kills humans for fun. "It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason.

Rainsford hides in a tree, and the General stands at the bottom and smiles. Why?

General Zaroff just smiled and turned away when he saw him in the tree because he didn't want it to be that easy. He wanted to have a challenge.

What "game" does Zaroff hunt on his island?

General Zaroff reveals that he hunts humans for sport, and intends to hunt Rainsford as well.

Name the two men that live in the Chateau

General Zaroff, and his gigantic deaf-mute servant, Ivan.

Explain how the General gets people on his island to play his "game.

He bought the island called Ship Trap Island and used his light house to lure people into the rocks to cause their boat to sink

"He lived a year in a minute." What is this an example of?

Hyperbole: A figure of speech in which great exaggeration is used for emphasis or humorous effect. "Rainsford, crouching there, could not see the general, nor could he see the pit. He lived a year in a minute"

The following morning, General Zaroff is "solicitous about the state of Rainsford's health." This is foreshadowing what?

It is foreshadowng that rainsford does not want to hunt

Describe the General's Chateau (location, appearance)

On a high bluff, many lights, three sides of cliff, enormous building, pointed towers, surrounded by an iron gate. Describe General Zaroff's physical appearance. He is dressed in fine clothing London tailor, singularly handsome, bizarre quality about his face.

Rumors around Ship-Trap Island

Rainsford believes the rumor that the island is filled with cannibals, but the sailors know it is just an island. The sailors believe it is a place of evil, but Rainsford thinks they are just superstitious.

Ivan dies. How?

Rainsford creates uses a flexible tree sapling, a grapevine, and the knife he was provided with to create a rig that will send the knife flying when it's triggered. Rainsford's knife kills Ivan. Finally, the Ugandan Spring Trap ends up stabbing the General's servant, Ivan, to death.

Who wins the game?

Rainsford wins the ''most dangerous game.

What are some of the moments where the readers are unsure about Rainsford's survival?

Rainsford's getting caught in the tree, and Rainsford jumping off the cliff into the ocean at the end.

At the end of the evening, Zaroff tells Rainsford: "I want to show you my new collection of heads. Will you come with me to the library." Predict what Zaroff wanted to show Rainsford. quizlet

The general will force Rainsford to participate in the hunt.Rainsford will attempt to escape from the island.

How does Rainsford escape Zaroff and the hounds?

To escape Zaroff and his approaching hounds, Rainsford dives off a cliff into the sea and escapes. Zaroff, disappointed at Rainsford's apparent suicide, returns home.

Explain the two different meanings of the word "game" in the title of the story.

What is the double-meaning in the use of the word, "game," in the title? "game" as in something you play and "game" as in animal game.

Identify and describe who Withney and Rainsford are

Whitney is Rainsford's friend and hunting companion while protagonist Sanger Rainsford is an adventurous big-game hunter who confronts the nature of life and death for the first time in his life during his few frightening days on Ship-Trap Island.

In conclusion, what happens to Zaroff? Explain how you drew this conclusion.

Zaroff is impressed with Rainsford, exclaiming that he won the game. However, Rainsford does not take it so lightly—he intends to fight Zaroff to the death. The story ends with the line, "He'd never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided" implying that Rainsford has killed Zaroff.

Predict why Zaroff does not tell Rainsford what kind of animal he hunts

Zaroff says that the animal would need to reason.He suddenly senses that Zaroff speaks of murdering human beings.

Amenity

a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place.

Scruples

a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action.

General Zaroff gives a man three things before he hunts the man. What are they?

a long-bladed hunting knife, food, and hunting clothes.

Quarry

a place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted.

Cosmopolite

a sophisticated, widely traveled person

Condone

accept and allow (behavior that is considered morally wrong or offensive) to continue.

Droll

curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement.

If a man refuses to play his game, what does Zaroff do?

f the person can survive for three days, he wins. If the people refuse to go hunting, he turns them over to Ivan. So far, General Zaroff has never lost. Rainsford told General Zaroff that he wasn't feeling well and went to his room.

General Zaroff tells Rainsford: "Ah, well, doubtless you had Puritan ancestors." What does this mean?

it means that he has had christan ancestors

Imperative

of vital importance; crucial.

Tangible

perceptible by touch.

Cultivated

refined and well educated.

Zealous

showing great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or objective.

Uncanny

strange, mysterious, weird, beyond explanation