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Name:___________________________ “The Most Dangerous Game” Ship-Trap Island Below you will read a series of quotes from Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game.” When you are finished reading the quotes, use the outline on the back of this page to create Ship-Trap island. You must use the quotes below to help with the map’s composition. Be sure to include all of the information you can gather from the quotes in your illustration. The entire island must be colored to receive full credit. 1. “...But as he forged along he saw to his great astonishment that all the lights were in one enormous building- a lofty structure with pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom. His eyes made out the shadow outlines of a palatial chateau; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of its cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows” (Connell, 22). 2. “‘Not at all,’ said the general. ‘I never joke about hunting. I needed a new animal. I found one. So I bought this island, built this house, and here I do my hunting. The island is perfect for my purpose- there are jungles with a maze of trails in them, hills, swamps-” (Connell, 26). 3. “Rainsford’s eyes saw only blackness, and then, as the general pressed a button, far out to sea Rainsford saw the flash of lights. The general chuckled, ‘They indicate a channel,’ he said, ‘where there’s none: giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-opened jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as I crush this nut’” (Connell, 28). 4. “The general steered Rainsford to a window. The lights from the windows sent a flickering illumination that made grotesque patterns on the courtyard below, and Rainsford could see moving about there a dozen or so huge black shapes; as they turned toward him, their eyes glittered greenly” (Connell, 29). 5. “I suggest too that you avoid the big swamp in the southeast corner of the island. We call it Death Swamp. There’s quicksand there” (Connell, 31).
