Characters
Name of the Protagonist
Sanger Rainsford
Name of the island that Rainsford is marooned on. (General Zaroff's island)
Ship-Trap Island
What is the most dangerous "game?"
Humans
What time of day does Zaroff "hunt?"
Night
What is the conflict of the story?
Rainsfords survival.
Rainsford escaping the island/Zaroff.
Name of Antagonist
General Zaroff
To where does Rainsford finally escape?
The ocean
Rainsford and Zaroff have this in common:
They are both hunters.
How does Zaroff justify his hunting of human beings?
Only the strong deserve to survive
What is the inciting incident?
(remember, this is a moment)
When Rainsford falls overboard
Name of General Zaroff's "right hand man"
Ivan
What causes Rainsford to fall off the boat?
He hears a gunshot then he drops his pipe overboard.
He trips/falls off the boat.
What two choices does Zaroff give his human prey?
To be hunted or to face Ivan.
Be whipped to death.
How does Zaroff stock his island with humans to hunt?
He makes ships crash on his island.
He uses a lighthouse on the island to crash ships.
What is the Climax of the story?
Rainsford reaches the end of the island with nowhere else to go.
Rainsford jumps into the ocean.
Before falling off the boat, Rainsford and this character argue about the feelings of animals and hunting
Whitney
Rainsford says, "The world is made up of two classes."
What two "classes" or groups does he claim there are?
"Hunters" and "Huntees"
Why is General Zaroff a paradoxical character?
(give me internal traits, not actions or physical features).
He is a good host/nice vs. He hunts his guests.
He is "civilized" knowledgeable/worldly vs. he is a barbaric (he thinks it is okay to hunt people)
Rainsford tells General Zaroff that he believes this animal is the most dangerous game.
The Cape Buffalo
What is the resolution?
Rainsford wins the game.
Rainsford kills Zaroff.
General Zaroff and Ivan are both from... (their nationality/country)
Cossack/Ukrainian
Zaroff began to lose interest in hunting because...
it has become too easy
Why does Rainsford think that Zaroff doesn't kill him on the first night of hunting?
Zaroff wants to prolong/stretch the "hunt" as long as possible.
Zaroff is "playing" with him.
What is one of the traps that Rainsford makes to try to kill Zaroff? (full name)
Malay man-catcher; Burmese Tiger pit; Ugandan knife spring
Define rising action and falling action
Rising action: exciting moments in-between the inciting incident and the climax.
Falling action: moments between the climax and resolution that help wrap up the conflict.