The Most Dangerous Game: Foil Character To Contrast The Protagonist
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An author sometimes uses a foil character to contrast the protagonist of a story in a way that emphasizes their characteristics. In The Most Dangerous Game (reprinted in Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. Arp, Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 6th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1993]), General Za ....
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.... The fear of pain and the
fear of death."
"Nonsense," laughed Rainsford. "This hot weather is
making you soft, Whitney. Be a realist. The world is
made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees.
Luckily, you and I are hunters."
Rainsford never considered what it was like to be the prey rather than the predator, that is until he met General Zaroff. General Zaroff was much like Rainsford, only he had found the ultimate game to hunt- human beings. ....
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