The Most Dangerous Game:
Plot Map and Sequence of Events


Fill in the information below. For the "Exposition" category, the order doesn't matter. However, the “Rising Action” category needs to be completed in chronological order.

Exposition
The setting is the Caribbean.









Rising Action
Rainsford loses his balance and falls into the sea.












Rainsford builds a Malay man-catcher.













Climax



Falling Action / Resolution



List of events: Use these events to fill in the 21 parts of the plot on the reverse side.


Zaroff tells Rainsford he hunts the most dangerous prey: man.
Rainsford leaps off of a cliff into the sea.
The setting is the Caribbean.
Rainsford loses his balance and falls into the sea.
Zaroff uses the dogs to hunt Rainsford.
Zaroff stands below Rainsford (who's up a tree), smiles, and moves on.
Rainsford kills Ivan.
Zaroff thinks that Rainsford's dead.
Rainsford has never slept in a more comfortable bed
Zaroff asks Rainsford to join him in hunting his prey.
Rainsford is on a yacht bound for the Amazon.
Zaroff tells Rainsford that he is bored with hunting most animals.
Rainsford refuses to join Zaroff in hunting.
Rainsford talks with Whitney about "ship-trap" island.
Rainsford builds a Malay man-catcher.
Zaroff loses one of his best dogs.
Rainsford builds a Burmese Tiger Pit.
Zaroff shows Rainsford how he traps ships with lights that indicate a channel.
We find out Rainsford is a big game hunter.
Whitney muses on his thought of the "game."
Rainsford confronts Zaroff in his bedroom.