Chapter Summary: The Most Dangerous Game

Rainsford's experience and intellect helps to give him a slight advantage against General Zaroff. In the short story the “Most Dangerous Game” by Connell. Unlike Rainsford, a

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.

Even though clearly distraught Rainsford was able to make key decisions to save his life. “Nerve, nerve, nerve” he panted, as he dashed along …. Then he leaped far into the sea.”(18). This quote tells the reader even while battling nerves and running away from a pack of dogs Rainsford was able to make a imperative choice to save his life. Rainsford survives the three days to beat Zaroff and win the game but still feels uneasy will not rest until General Zaroff is dead. “I am still a beast at bay,” he said, in a low, hoarse voice.” Get ready, General Zaroff.”(18). This quote discloses to the reader that Rainsford felt like quarry and wanted Zaroff dead and was not satisfied with merely winning the game.This quote also shows what kind of man Rainsford is and how he is willing to die for what he feels is right. Rainsford battled many trials throughout the story but somehow managed to make the best out of each one.

"The general was playing with him! The general was saving him for another day's sport! The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror." Rainsford comes to seek vengeance from the general making a toy of him by attempting to cause insanity due to the loss of nerve. "I will not lose my nerve. I will not." is the type of mental toughness Rainsford shows during Zaroff's tortures. "The general sucked in his breath and smiled. "I congratulate you," he said. "You have won the game."" The generals admit of defeat is not enough for Rainsford, thus Rainsford takes the situation to a brutal place and kills the General; "The general made one of his deepest bows. "I see," he said, "Splendid! One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds.

While Rainsford tries to get comfortable with the place of Zaroff . He expresses about his feelings and hunting experiences. The General explains that “hunting was beginning to bore him,” and

A hole as deep as Rainsford filled with sharpened spikes, he then quickly wove a carpet of weeds and branches and sealed the mouth of the pit. He crouched behind a stump to see if his pursuer fell for it. A sharp scream of pain was heard, but it was not what Rainsford had expected. It was one of Zaroff’s best dogs that fell in the trap. Zaroff once again congratulated Rainsford saying “Thank you for a most amusing evening” (Connell), but warns Rainsford that he plans to bring his whole pack.

He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford said. The next morning the thought of killing someone kept on going through his head. Rainsford picked up Zaroff’s bloody body and dragged it outside. As he’s dragging it Rainsford takes it to the hounds and feeds the body to the hounds. Rainsford just stands still watching the hounds eat the body piece by piece All that's left is Zaroff’s mangled up body and Rainsford walks away like nothing happened.

Rainsford woke up to the booming sinfony of dozens of hungry hunting hounds and a satisfied look soon materialized on his face. With a prolonged yawn, he rose sleepily from the luxurious bed to find the body of General Zaroff staring blankly at the ceiling. He was the hunter, his hunter, that he had just murdered. Rainsford realised he had finally and truly won the most dangerous game. He remembered what the Cossack had said before their fight, “One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed.” Rainsford silently walked over to the window and gazed down towards the dogs below. As if know what Rainsford was thinking, the hounds barked viciously at him, salivating at their mouths. He ceremoniously picked up the still body of General Zaroff and threw him out the window with a crash! He put a fresh pair of clothes on while listening to the now satisfied canines eat their meal. determined he needed to get

So Rainsford and Zaroff starts and Rainsford jumped in front of him and pulls out his sword out looks at Zaroff and says “I am going to win this fight and get the excellent bed.” So once he says that to Zaroff he came at him with another sword. Zaroff swings first and he cuts his arm and Rainsford screamed out and said “OUCH!! YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!” So they continued to fight and then Rainsford called in back up and he called Mr. Whitney to the fight and he brought a lot of swords. Then they started to fight and Mr. Whitney help Rainsford. So he went to the other side to run up behind

When Rainsford was put in the jungle he made a trail tring to fool Zoraff thats the

When General Zaroff came heard the loud thud, he rushed toward it. When he arrived, he saw Ivan lying there covered in blood. At this moment he cried and screamed out, “You will pay for this Rainsford!”

Rainsfords is panicked and running for his life, he's also scared of what General Zaroff will do to him when he catches him. Rainsfords force himself towards the gap between these two trees. He got closer to gap to see open water, and then he went to for it, he jumped. ‘“I am still a beast at bay, Rainsfords said, in a low hoarse voice, Rainsfords said this after he jumped off the cliff and swam back to the land. As he swam back he seen a big house, he walked closer to it and seen General Zaroff.

As he is being chased he stops and finds a stick with a pointy end, he sticks it in the ground with the pointy end facing out. The generals servant runs into the spear stabbing him and killing him. Now Rainsford has only the attack dogs and the general to worry about, he runs up a narrow trail up to a water fall losing most of the generals attack dogs. Rainsford finds himself in a dead end in front of the water fall, the general caught up to him and only has two dogs with him. He commands the dogs to attack rainsford but rainsford throws one of the dogs down the cliff into the water. The other dog lunges onto Rainsford, the general sees the opportunity and brings out his gun and aims it at the dog and Rainsford. He shoots the gun and Rainsford falls off the cliff with the dog into their death.

He also kept his head bald so it wouldn’t interfere, but now his head wasn’t bald because he didn’t have anything to shave with on the island.Yet out of all the things Rainsford thought about in the ocean his mind constantly drift back to how he was to get out of this situation. But nevertheless he began to swim in the direction of General Zaroff’s home. He swam and swam until he saw lights . He got out of the water and began to walk towards the lights not thinking but acting on instinct . Then there was a rustling in the bushes and there appeared a dog a big dog which looked very hungry. The dog began to growl and off instinct and not reason Rainsford ran and ran towards the house but the dog was getting closer so he kept running but the dog had got him . Before Rainsford knew it the dog was on top of him eating at his flesh and tearing it away. Rainsford lates there completely giving up. Then a voice boomed through the darkness it was the voice of General Zaroff’s. The dog stopped and took of in the opposite direction of the voice . Then there was no longer a voice but footsteps getting closer and

The next morning Rainsford woke up to the sound of his annoying alarm. He went to the kitchen made coffee, and sat on the couch to watch TV. He had been extremely exhausted from fighting the general. However, something didn’t seem right it was too quiet. He steps outside and see’s his neighbor, but with a quick glance it looked like the general. Once he blinked his eyes, he realized his neighbor was just being friendly and decided to wave hello. He seemed confused, thought it was maybe because he was tired. So he went back inside set his coffee on the table and went back to the room and took a