Question

guided reading questions: the most dangerous game
reading check/literary analysis question | student response: include details/explanation/eidence

1. how do sailors feel about the mysterious \ship - trap island?\
2. what effect does rainsford’s response have on the reader when he says, \pure imagination...?\
3. what happens to rainsford after he hears a gunshot while on the ship?
4. which details of rainsford’s struggle (when he first arrives on the island) build suspense?
5. what does rainsford find when he finally makes it to the island?
6. what is your first impression of the general? can he be trusted?

Explanation:

1. For question 4: Details include Rainsford's exhaustion, the thick, dark jungle, the unknown sounds of the island, and his struggle to find solid ground after the rough swim—these create uncertainty about his safety.
2. For question 5: Rainsford finds a large, palatial mansion with iron gates on the island, where he meets General Zaroff and his servant Ivan.

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Answer:

1. The sailors feel about the ship-trap island are scared and had superstitions about it.
2. It causes a suspicious effect on the reader, since Captain Nielson
3. He tried to swim away from the sound.
4. Details like his disorientation in the dark, tangled jungle, his sore muscles from swimming, and the eerie, unexplained noises on the island build suspense by leaving his fate uncertain and highlighting the island's threatening, unknown nature.
5. Rainsford finds a grand, isolated mansion on the island, inhabited by General Zaroff and his servant Ivan.
6. No, he can't be trusted, he might be the antagonist in the story.