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A. and C. use words and phrases that do not exist, and B. is incorrect because it uses the 'good, better, best' rule.
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"The best sport in the world."
"For the hunter," amended Whitney. "Not for the jaguar."
"Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?"
"Perhaps the jaguar does," observed Whitney.
"Bah! They've no understanding."
"Even so, I rather think they understand one thing—fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death."
The Most Dangerous Game story as two major themes. The first one is reason vs. Instinct and The Effects of War.
On this excerpt, you can see that the theme is reason vs. instinct. The hunter thinks that hunting is a good sport even though it kills an animal that has no way of defending itself. The character Whitney defends that the jaguar has feelings, especially the fear of pain and being killed.
This way this character is used to blur differences between animals and humans, that both have the same feelings.
The key theme reflected in the excerpt from Richard Connell’s story 'The Most Dangerous Game' is the indifference of the hunter towards the hunted and the shared fear of pain and death. It foreshadows the twist of roles where Rainsford, the hunter becomes hunted.
In Richard Connell’s story 'The Most Dangerous Game,' the excerpt depicts the theme of indifference and insensitivity of hunters towards their prey and the understanding that each creature has a common fear of pain and death. While one character Rainsford, insists that the jaguars they're hunting possess no understanding, Whitney, another character, implies that they must understand the common fears that all creatures possess. This conversation prepares the reader for the later parts of the story when these roles of hunter and hunted are switched and Rainsford becomes the hunted much like the jaguars he so casually dismissed.
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b. Germany
c. France
d. Russia
Study Island: Germany.