Answer: The Most Dangerous Game” portrays how civilized people will turn uncivilized if life depends on it.
Thesis:
People in the story start out civilized, then become savage, especially if life depends on it.
Topic Sentence:
“Thank you, I’m a hunter, not a murderer.”
1A. Rainsford is civilized because he refused to kill another person.
Text Evidence #1:
1B. Even though Rainsford will kill animals, he still has a sense of humanity because he does not want to take another man’s life.
“He had plunged along, spurred on by the sharp rowers of something very like panic.” 2A. Rainsford’s life is in danger and he is feeling the beginning of an animalistic terror.
Text Evidence #2:
2B. His concentration and reasoning is already being compromised by this terror as he runs wildly through the woods.
“The general said, ‘Splendid! One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed.”
Text Evidence #3:
3A. Rainsford’s civilization has been discarded because he now takes the option of taking Zaroff’s life rather than a more peaceful option.
3B. This is the end of a transformation from a civilized man to a savage one caused by the fear for his life.
Rainsford proves that even the most civilized man can be turned savage in the fear of losing his life.
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