Vocabulary Words !

Amenity

Definition: Useable feature or facility of a building or place.

Condone

Definition: Accept and allow.

Cultivated

Definition: Refined, polished, educated.

Disarming

Definition: Having the affect of suspicion or hostility by charm.

Droll

Definition: Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement.

Imperative

Definition: Of vital importance.

Quarry

Definition: Game or a heap of game killed in a hunt.

Scruple

Definition: A feeling of doubt with regard to morality of a course of action

Futile

Definition: Pointless, not producing useful result.

Solicitously

Definition: Anxious or concerned.

Tangible

Definition: Perceptible by touch.

Uncanny

Definition: Strange or mysterious in an unsettling way.

Zealous

Definition: Great enthusiasm.

Outline Of The most Dangerous Game!!

Exposition: Rainsford and Whitney are the first two characters we meet in the story. They are on a boat to go hunt jaguars in the Caribbean in the 1920s.  On there way to the Caribbean they come across “Ship Trap Island”.

Inciting event: Rainsford hears gun shots and jumps up on the rails of the yacat and falls over board.  He swims to shore and is having trouble swimming because of the huge waves. Finally when he gets to the island, he finds a mysterious mansion that looks like a big village on the island.

Rising action: Finally when he gets to the mansion he knocks on the door and runs into a large man pointing a gun at him named Ivan. Then General Zaroff (the owner of the mansion and island) invites him in and tells him how he read about Rainsford. Zaroff tells Rainsford he likes to hunt just like him, but he doesn't just hunt animals he hunts humans that come off the ship.

THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME!!

Details From The Story

1. "What island is it?" Rainsford asked.

"The old charts call it "Ship Trap Island." 

My Notes 

1. Why do they call it "Ship Trap Island"?

Is this a foreshadow?

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2. "Sailors have a curious dread of the place."

My Notes

2. Why do sailors have a "curious dread" of a island?

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3."He leaped upon the rail and balanced himself 

there, to get better elevation; his pipe, striking a rope, 

was knocked from his mouth. He lunged for it; as he 

realized he had reached to far and lost his balance."

My Notes

3. Why would you lunge for a pipe? -_-

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4. "He saw to his great astonishment that all the lights

were in one enormous building~a loftily structure with 

pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom"

My Notes 

4. Why would there be an enormous building in the

middle of no where on an island? And why would you go 

it?

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5."The first thing Rainsford's eyes discerned was

the largest man Rainsford had ever seen~a gigantic, creature,

solidly made and black bearded to the waist."

My Notes

5.Who is this creepy, giant, nasty dude?

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6. "It is a very great pleasure and honor to welcome 

Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, to my homer"

My Notes

6. How did he know that Rainsford was a hunter? 

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7."I am General Zaroff"

My Notes 

7. Is he a real General? And why is he living on this island?

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8. "Ivan laid out an evening suit, and Rainsford, 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"

My Notes

8. Is Zaroff from a royal family? And if not 

where does he get all this expensive stuff from?