The Most Dangerous Game

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What would be a good way to describe the Burmese Tiger Trap from "The Most Dangerous Game?"

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Posted by basketballgirl on June 13, 2010 at 10:30 AM and tagged with burmese tiger trap, connell, style, the most dangerous game

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I do not quite understand what you are supposed to do -- there is a long description of the trap in the story.  Are you supposed to paraphrase it?

The Burmese tiger trap is basically a...

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Posted by pohnpei397 on June 13, 2010 at 10:36 AM

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While the tiger trap is useful for catching the large cat, it was used in the South Pacific as a guerilla warfare tactic.  From four to ten feet deep, it is filled with approximately two dozen...

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Posted by mwestwood on June 14, 2010 at 12:28 PM

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