The Most Dangerous Game Gurshaan J. Mind Map

Setting & Atmosphere

context

Ship-Trap Island "The old charts call it 'Ship-Trap Island'"

location

Remote, isolated

Jungle environment "Dense jungle came down to the very edge of the cliffs."

Suspenseful "This place has a reputation-a bad one."

tone

Threatening "This place has an evil name among seafaring men."

tone

Plot

structure

Rainsford falls overboard "The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the carribean Sea dosed over his head."

exposition

Swims to Ship-Trap Island "Ten minutes of determined effort brought another sound to his ears--the most welcome he had ever heard--the muttering and growling of the sea on a rocky shore."

action

Rainsford meets Zaroff "I am general Zaroff."

rising action

Learns about the hunting game "It's a game you see."

action

Rainsford is hunted "That which was approaching was a man."

climax

Uses his skills to outsmart Zaroff "let me congradulate you. Not many men know how to make a Malay mancatcher."

action

Rainsford confronts Zaroff "A man who was hiding in the curtains of the bed, was standing there."

resolution

Zaroff is defeated "He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided."

action

The Most Dangerous Game Gurshaan J.📚

fictionshort storystory

Characters

people

Sanger Rainsford

protagonist

Hunter "I've read your book about hunting snow leopards in Tibet, you see,"

Determined "I must keep my nerve. I must keep my nerve, he said through tight teeth."

trait

Moral dilemma, Humane "Did not make me condone cold blooded murder."

arc

General Zaroff

antagonist

Wealthy, eccentric "as he put it on, noticed that it came from a London tailor who ordinarily cut and sewed for none below the rank of duke."

trait

Bored with hunting " It had become too easy. I always got my quarry. Always. There is no greater bore than perfection."

motivation

Sadistic, cruel "That is why I use them. It gives me pleasure."

trait

Ivan

minor

Zaroff's servant "He nodded toward the corner where the giant stood,"

role

Silent, menacing "He nodded toward the corner where the giant stood, scowling, his thick arms crossed on his hogshead of chest."

trait

Literary Devices

Foreshadowing

"This place has a reputation--a bad one." This sets the scene and tell the reader that the island is well known and most likely regarded as dangerous.

"The general smiled the quiet smile of one who has faced an obstacle and surmounted it with success." This shows that Zaroff is confident in his hunting skills and that he will defeat Rainsford. It also tells the reader that Zaroff has prior experience and has been able to overcome challenges and obstacles.

Personification

"Didn't you notice that the crew's nerves seemed a bit jumpy today?"

"he fought the sea"

"a sharp hunger was picking at him"

"the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows"

Metaphors & Similes

Metaphors

"The night would be my eyelids..."

"the largest man rainsford had ever seen-a gigantic creature."

"leaped back with the agility of an ape"

Similes

"The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window."

"as if the air about us was actually poisonous"

"but it was like trying to see through a blanket"