Analyzing Saki's 'The Most Dangerous Game'

Some stories do not have many different conflicts in the story. For example, in “Little Red Riding Hood” there is only one conflict which is Man vs Wolf or Man vs Man, but in some stories like “The Most Dangerous Game” there are all three conflicts throughout the book. Having more conflicts gives the story a bigger theme of suspense. In “Little Red Riding Hood”, the only conflict is getting to her grandma’s house where in “The Most Dangerous Game” there are many different conflicts that give the story more suspense and make it more interesting. Furthermore, there are many examples of conflicts in the short story.

Throughout all of time, literature has played an important role in people’s lives. Books are more than just stories to laugh at, cry with, or fall asleep to, but books can teach. Books can teach a person a simple task such as baking cookies or an extremely complex one such as solving for the derivative of a trigonometric path and its parabolic motion. Whatever the subject, whomever the reader, books can teach people many lessons. One of the most important lessons that a book can teach a reader is a lesson about himself, about the difficulties of life, and about living a good life. As time has passed, so has literature itself. Older books focused on historical events, fictional poetry, and important figures; however, books now have evolved to

In his tale, “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell tells the Rainsford’s story on a mysterious island in the Caribbean Sea. Furthermore, Connell explains that people who arrive at this place are forced to participate in a sinister game that is described, by the author, as the most dangerous game. This Connell’s tale is a suspenseful and adventure story about two experienced hunters against one another in a life-and-death competition in which only one of them can be the winner. According to the Sparknotes website, the human-hunting-humans scenario in this story has inspired countless novels, television episodes and films, such as The Hunger Games, that have tried to recapture the essence of Connell’s original story. Throughout this story,

Imagine a time where you had an argument with your parents. What would was the outcome of the argument? Did you get what you wanted? Many may wonder: why would you argue with when you now you most likely will not get your way. Maybe we argue because we are mad and want to vent Maybe we argue because we are convinced we are right even if we realize later that we weren't. We ask ourselves why why do we fight battles we now we are destined to lose? The argument of “The Most Dangerous Game” General Zaroff, hunts trapped sailors on his island. He does this because he is bored of hunting animals he knows he will win. He thinks he will also defeat Rainsford, other great hunter. Zaroff is a murderer and is uncivilized because he killed people

All in all the author, Richard Connell, uses conflicts in the story “The Most Dangerous Game” to reveal the traits of characters and to show how they relate to the different types disputes and decisions. Rainsford battled both external and internal conflicts throughout the story but manages to make the best out of them. Rainsford also goes through many trials and decisions which show his many characteristics

All stories must have a conflict in them. Some have only one but the narrator and author of the short story “ The Most Dangerous Game’’ by Richard Connell has not only one but three to give the story a little rage . Man vs man, man vs himself and man vs nature are all included in the story. They all exist in the story and these are some of the examples the author puts on the story when writing it.

As said in the movie Surviving the Game. These are rules Rainsford has to follow or he will die. Richard Correll wrote “ The Most Dangerous Games” which is about a man who loves to hunt humans not animals. Rainsford is on an island and he does not know what to do and then goes to General Zaroff. The general loves to hunt people it is like a sport to him and ask Rainsford if he wanted to join him and he said no. Rainsford has to win a battle if he does not win Zaroff will kill him or if he does win he can go back home said general Zaroff he said I will find you a way home. Richard Correll uses mood/ tone in his story “ The Most Dangerous Games” to convey the theme of competition enhances a person’s character.

For an abundance of stories the conflicts do not include man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. himself. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell this is not the case. The main character Rainsford is frequently facing multiple struggles. The story would not keep you on the edge of your seats the same way unless he is constantly fighting through something no matter how big or small the problem is. For example Rainsford the sailor fights nature in this story. In addition to this, he struggles through the toughness and wits of other men. Furthermore, in this story Rainsford puts up with himself as he fights his mind running through the jungle constantly making last minute, and risky decisions. This story shows countless examples of man vs. man, man vs. nature, and even man vs. himself.

It had been a week since Rainsford managed to kill the nefarious General Zaroff. The challenging part was almost over or so it seemed. There was not a clear way for Rainsford to escape. As days passed, Rainsford tried to escape. He tried making a boat from driftwood that he found, he tried swimming, he even tried sending a signal by using a flashlight. Rainsford had become so desperate that he even tried some ridiculous plans like trying to pole vault across the ocean. As a result, Rainsford ended up having huge gashes in his left leg ,which got infected, and he had to amputate it. As days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, Rainsford had lost hope and became bitter.

In any story, there must be problems that leave the main character in a predicament. That is the case in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. There are three main types of conflicts. One conflict in man versus nature because even though Rainsford is a sailor, he is most hated by the sea. Another, conflict found in the story is man versus himself considering Rainsford must face the toughest challenge of all; himself. Most importantly, the last conflict is man versus man since Rainsford is forced to go head-to-head with General Zaroff. It is crucial that “The Most Dangerous Game” has these three main issues to make the story exciting.

“The Dangerous Game”  by Richard Connell has a happy ending. A happy ending is when the protagonist in a story or a book solves his/her problems or defeat an adversary. The Dangerous Game exemplified a happy ending because Rainsford beats Zaroff to the building and lasted 3 days without being hunted down and killed. For example, in the text on the page (27) reads, “You have won the game.” This means Rainsford defeated General Zaroff which is displaying the protagonist defeating his adversary.  Later in the story when General Zaroff gives a bow and says one of them is to furnish a repast for the hounds and the other is to sleep in the bed. To my understanding, he is referring to Rainsford sleeping in the bed and the one who will provide food

In a plenitude of literary pieces, writers present readers with villains, often to challenge the ethics of protagonists, and orchestrate the plot’s complication, in turn, heightening suspense. Correspondingly, in the self-enthralling tale of an expedition gone awry titled, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the writer accentuates on an individual named Rainsford, who after stumbling off a yacht to Rio de Janeiro, swims ashore to an area called “Ship-Trap Island”, only to come face to face with the antagonist of the story, General Zaroff. The general derives appeasement in partaking in a callous game as hunting innocent humans and soon forces Rainsford to engage in such an activity. Furthermore, Frank Stockton’s acclaimed short story,

The conflict in this story is man vs. man and man vs. nature. The first, man vs. man, is the most obvious and recognizable conflict in that it shows the main conflict for the protagonist. Rainsford finds himself pitted against his host, General Zaroff, struggling to stay alive. Man vs. nature occurs as he is running through the jungle away from Zaroff. He must use his surroundings to his advantage to save himself. It is also seen when he encounters the quicksand, and when he reaches the ocean

The prompt is saying to state what survivor might mean in your own words and to write an essay explaining what survivor’s meaning is using past readings and or personal experiences. Some of the past reading that are will be used in this essay is “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Carroll which is about a man named Rainsford trying his best to survive from a man who hunts humans as animals. What a survivor is someone who is brave, smart, and lucky.

He is put into a situation where he has to swim until he finds shelter. He swims, and “for a seemingly endless time he fought the sea” (Connell 42). After a while, he found an island called Ship Trap Island. So, this shows how he fought against nature. Another example of conflict in this story is when Rainsford has to fight against General Zaroff, who is an expert at hunting humans on Ship Trap Island. As Rainsford gets challenged by Zaroff, he says, “‘Thank you, I’m a hunter, not a murderer’” (49). This shows an example of another external conflict. But, this one is a man verses man conflict because Rainsford is facing a problem with another character in the story. Therefore, Rainsford faces many situations where he has to choose between life or death.