The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

Dramatic Plot Structure

ExpositionRising ActionClimaxFalling ActionResolution

Plot structures include 5 elements + conflict

Exposition

Rising Action

Conflict

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

Dramatic Plot Structure

Exposition: During a plot’s exposition, the author gives background information about the story and introduces the story’s characters and setting. The exposition also introduces the main conflict.

Rising Action: Rising action is the series of events that lead up to the climax, or most dramatic moment, of the story.

Climax: The climax is a story’s most dramatic and revealing moment. It usually comes near the end of a story and satisfies the reader’s curiosity about what happens.

Dramatic Plot Structure

Falling Action: The falling action follows the climax and describes the results of the climax.

Resolution The resolution, or denouement, comes at the end of the falling action.

The Most Dangerous Game has a very late climax, therefore, the resolution and falling action occur in 1-2 paragraphs.

Baby Panda!

It starts with a boat ride

to South America

On the boat is a hunter named Rainsford

Rainsford is a world famous hunter, who has written many books on the subject

However, Rainsford is not accustomed to hunting the most dangerous game

Rainsford believes jaguar are the most clever animals.

The Caribbean Sea is dotted with small islands, some of which are privately owned.

A rifle shot...

from the island they were passing, an island covered in fog.

Man Overboard!

Rainsford heard the shot, went to the side of the boat, dropped his pipe, overcorrected, and fell overboard.The boat kept right on sailing toward South America.

His only chance..

is to swim to shore, and hope the person with the gun was friendly!

What kind of animal was on this island?

He began searching for the place where the shooting occurred

He found a spot where the underbrush was compressed

It was a large animal that fell

Then, he found the footsteps, and decided to follow them

The footprints led straight to an enormous Chateau

General Zaroff

General Zarroff

...is also a hunter, who has read Rainsford’s books.

... owns the island called ShipTrap Island. .... has a very different idea about “game.”

Channel MarkersZarroff explains how the island got its name.

The Hunt is On!(Time to Read!)