The Most Dangerous Game

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The Most Dangerous Game
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• Characterization The world is made up of two
  classes the hunters and the huntees.
• Rainsford feels no empathy for victims

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• Setting somewhere in Caribbean (place) not
  modern times ? traveling by boat to Amazon to hunt

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• Characterization R level-headed, stays in
  control ? doesnt panic when he falls off yacht,
  takes steps to save himself

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• Characterization General Zaroff hunter
  cultivated rich military

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• GZs problem hes too good at hunting, so its
  not a challenge
• GZs solution he needs a challenge, an animal
  that can reason ? the ONLY animal that can reason
  MAN
• Most Dangerous Game MAN

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• R fought in WWI killed enemy soldiers
• Rs killing self-defense GZs killing murder
  (done for his pleasure)

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• Survival of the Fittest strong are made to take
  out the weak
• R said this 1st ? GZ obviously agrees, but takes
  it further to include people

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• Rules of the Game
• prey given food knife
• prey gets 3 hour head start
• prey must stay alive for 3 days
• Ivan gets anyone who doesnt want to be in game ?
  hes a former torturer

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• GZ forces R to be his prey ? R worthy of GZs
  skills as a hunter
• GZ gives his word (unbreakable back in the day)
  that R will win if he stays alive until midnight
  on 3rd day ? R must promise to NOT say anything
  to anyone

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• Day 1
• R panics at 1st, then regains calm does what he
  needs to do to stay alive ? leaves complicated
  trail for GZ to follow, hides in tree

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• GZ finds Rs hiding place, leaves him there ? GZ
  playing God, lets R see that he can find him
  whenever he wants (GZ has all the power)

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• Day 2
• R sets 2 traps to kill GZ, but both fail ? 1
  injures GZ, 1 kills a hunting dog (the best
  defense is a good offense)

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• R knew now how an animal at bay feels.
• R sees GZ, Ivan, pack of hounds chasing him ? R
  now understands what the hunted feel like (change
  in R from beginning of story)

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• Day 3
• R sets a new trap, kills Ivan
• R chased to edge of cliffs by GZs house, jumps
  into ocean to escape being killed by dogs

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• GZ finds R hiding in his bedroom, gives up ? R
  has won the game
• R tells GZ that he is still being hunted ? GZ
  challenges R to a final fight (1 becomes a meal
  for hunting dogs, 1 sleeps in GZs bed)

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• R enjoys GZs bed ? R kills GZ
• Change in R from beginning of story he murders
  GZ out of desire for revenge