What theme of richard connell's story "the most dangerous game" comes through in this excerpt? "…we should have some good hunting up the amazon. great sport, hunting." "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." a. reason versus instinct b. violence and bloodshed c. of animals d. survival of the fittest

200 words discuss the theme of outcasts in these chapters in at least two hundred words. what does it mean that the church takes in people that the clan rejects? how is nwoye an outcast? how does the clan treat the missionaries as outcasts?

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky

Match the sentence to its correct verb mood