"off there to the right--somewhere--is a large island," said whitney. "it's rather a mystery--"

2 "what island is it? " rainsford asked.

3 "the old charts call it `ship-trap island,"' whitney replied." a suggestive name, isn't it? sailors have a curious dread of the place. i don't know why. some superstition--"

4 "can't see it," remarked rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.

5 "you've good eyes," said whitney, with a laugh, "and i've seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush at four hundred yards, but even you can't see four miles or so through a moonless caribbean night."

6 "nor four yards," admitted rainsford. "ugh! it's like moist black velvet."

7 "it will be light enough in rio," promised whitney. "we should make it in a few days. i hope the jaguar guns have come from purdey's. we should have some good hunting up the amazon. great sport, hunting."

8 "the best sport in the world," agreed rainsford.

9 "for the hunter," amended whitney. "not for the jaguar."

10 "don't talk rot, whitney," said rainsford. "you're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. who cares how a jaguar feels? "

11 "perhaps the jaguar does," observed whitney.

12 "bah! they've no understanding."

13 "even so, i rather think they understand one thing--fear. the fear of pain and the fear of death."

14 "nonsense," laughed rainsford. "this hot weather is making you soft, whitney. be a realist. the world is made up of two classes--the hunt
how does the author contrast the differing points of view of rainsford and whitney?
a) whitney mocks rainsford for his soft heart for the struggles of the hunted against the hunter.
b) both whitney and rainsford are given pause when they consider what it must be like to be hunted rather than to be the hunter.
c) through the use of dialogue, the narrator reveals that whitney and rainsford are both beginning to realize that being hunted must be a terrifying experience.
d) rainsford is indifferent to the feelings of those who are hunted, while whitney can at least consider what it is like to be hunted instead of being the hunter.

What kinds of images does the word "twinkling" suggest? dirt, earth, poverty, race leaves, trees, green, spring stars, dreams, looking upward, heaven darkness, sadness, loneliness, isolation they eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair. dinner is a casual affair. plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, tin flatware. two who are mostly good. two who have lived their day, but keep on putting on their clothes and putting things away. and remembering, with twinklings and twinges, as they lean over the beans in their rented back room that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths. tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.

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