LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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Richard Connell
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Morley Callaghan
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O. Henry
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Charlie Fish
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Detailed explanation-1: -"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as “The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell, first published in Collier’s on January 19, 1924, with illustrations by Wilmot Emerton Heitland.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most dangerous game is about a man who claims to hunt animals for fun becoming the hunted. Sanger Rainsford is hunted by General Zaroff on Ship Trap Island for sport, and he eventually becomes the prey he has hunted.
Detailed explanation-3: -"The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story that everyone should read.
Detailed explanation-4: -Adventure and Gothic Fiction “The Most Dangerous Game” falls clearly into the adventure story genre, which is probably why it has been adapted into or inspired so many films in the oh-so-many years since it was written. In typical adventure fashion, the story’s success relies heavily on plot and action.
Detailed explanation-5: -Pitting Rainsford and General Zaroff against each other in the hunt allows Connell to blur the line between hunter and prey, human and animal, to suggest that instinct and reason are not as mutually exclusive as people have traditionally thought.