“The Most Dangerous
Game” character paragraph
Your Turn: Write an academic paragraph for the following:
• How are Rainsford’s personality traits revealed?
• Be sure to include:
• Topic sentence
• Rainsford’s name, character trait/personality
trait(s), author and title
• Two examples of methods of characterization that
reveal the traits
• How the motivation reveals the trait
• Your paragraph should have two claims one that focuses on
how his personality is revealed through methods of char. and
the other that focuses on how his personality is revealed
through motivation.
Example Topic Sentence
Rainsford’s character in Richard Connell’s
“The Most Dangerous Game”, is a clever
survivalist who wants to win Zaroff’s game.
Grading:
20 points details/support
7 points organization
3 points spelling and grammar