Creative Writing: Ship Trap Island

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the author, Richard Connell, does an outstanding job of portraying the bizarre adventure of an insane, however experienced hunter, General Zaroff. The protagonist, Rainsford, another experienced hunter from New York City, appears on General Zaroff’s island, explores, and eventually encounters with Zaroff. They introduce themselves, settle down, and begin to talk. During the talk with the general, Rainsford soon learns that the General was not only a hunter; but a murderer as well. Zaroff has lured and ceased many sailors to his island to play a game. Although, they did not hunt with the General, the General hunted them! Zaroff claimed that hunting “had become too easy”, therefore, hunting began

General Zarroff shows how someone can go from civilized to uncivilized because of money and power. In the short story, it states “I needed a new animal. I found one. So I bought this island, built this house, and here I do my hunting” (Connell, 2012.P.224). This explains how General Zarroff used his money to buy an Island and build a mansion so he could hunt men and kill them. General Zarroff also used his power by making the people who came to the Island play the game, it states “He need not play the game if he doesn’t wish to. If he does not wish to hunt, I turn him over to Ivan. Ivan once had the honor of serving as an official knouter to the great white czar, and he has his own ideas of sport. Invariably, Mr. Rainsford, Invariably they choose the hunt” (Connell, 2012, P.226). This is an example of how Zarroff uses his power to make them feel threatened and scared into playing the game. Overall, General Zarroff uses his money and power to hunt men who come onto the Island.

In the novel, The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell expresses that hunting, as a game is immoral and is played for fun. Connell also illustrates that hunting in particular is not a good thing to do. The author of this novel has shown that hunting is a dangerous game through one of the main characters, General Zaroff, who is crazy, ill and thinks of hunting humans as a sport.

Ship-Trap Island Has Some Pretty Crazy Things Going On. Rainsford is being told that he is going to be hunted. He is on an island with no way to get off. Zaroff Got to A Point Where He Trapped Rainsford In A Tree But Let Him Escape. Rainsford builds a Ugandan knife trap that mistakenly kills Ivan. Rainsford slept in Zaroff bedroom so we can infer he some hoe killed

In the short story The Most Dangerous Game, the tell of a man named Rainsford is set with a very difficult choice. Rainsford is first cast off his yacht. After getting onto the railing to look for where gunshots had come from, and reaching from his falling pipe and losing grip of the pole. When Rainsford then swims towards shore to find blood where a animal ,he thought, had struggled. Rsinsford sees the gothic building on the hill and makes his way to it. When Rainsford reach es the house he knocks the door in which then Ivan opens it. Ivan is holding a gun and won 't let Rainsofrd inside. General Zaroff comes and apologized for Ivan that he dumb. General Zaroff is gives Rainsford food and clothing. During dinner he tells Rainsford that he is a hunter as well. Zaroff then tells Rainford how he hade hunted everything and that hunting was his life but it had started to bore him. So Zaroff had made a new animal to hunt. Explaining to Rainsford that it was human. How the it work that he trained them and feed them and then give them hunting clothes and a hunting knife alog witha three hour start. The General explained that he gave the three days and that if the adovided for that long that they would win the game. Rainsford says how that is cold blooded murder. Zaroff then says that he would like Rainsford to hunt with him. When Rainsford refuses he says taht then they would go agaist each other. Rainsford refuses, so Zaroff tells him his only other

While discussing ambition the character Frank Underwood once said: “For those of us climbing the food chain, there can be no mercy. There is but one rule: hunt or be hunted” (Frank Underwood in House of Cards). In “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connell, General Zaroff strives to be the world’s preeminent hunter. Once his typical hunting game began to bore him, Zaroff developed a new stock for the island. After luring in his new prey, General Zaroff prepares the men for his competition. To begin his game, Zaroff unleashes the quarry and gives them time to scatter amongst the island. Then, he uses his devious ways to terminate his opponents. Throughout “The Most Dangerous Game,” General Zaroff embodies the idea of hunt or be hunted through his captivating, astute and malevolent ways.

The general is very deliberate with every thing he does. For example the general states," I treat these guest with every consideration. They get plenty of good food and exercise. They get in splendid physical condition. You shall see for yourself tomorrow" (Connell 5). In this piece of text the general is referring to his training center in the cellar. This detail shows that he really has planned everything from the moment anyone even comes near his island to the moment he pulls the trigger. The general keeps them in good physical conditions with purpose. He wants the best possible challenge for himself. He has also planned for refusal to play the game, " Suppose he refuses to be hunted? Oh said the general," I give him his option. He need not play the game if he doesn't wish to. If he does not wish to hunt, I turn him over to Ivan. Ivan once had the honor of serving as an official knouter to the Great White Czar, and he has his own ideas of the Sport"(Connell 5). Here it is show that he has planned so that they have a choice , but the best choice for survival would be to hunt with the general. This way the general gets the most amount of quarries. Also by doing this he filters out the people who have already given up and would be boring for him to hunt.with the general being on an island in the middle of nowhere, and having Ivan to protect him from any revolts. It looks like he has everything exactly

“The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story written by the American author Richard Connell. In this story a hunter named Rainsford, the main character, is on a journey to Brazil to hunt jaguars. As he heads to Brazil he falls off the boat and comes across a Russian General, Zaroff, who is a hunter and plans on preying Rainford.This story takes you on a roller coaster of adventure and competition. In this short story the author uses irony and similes to illustrate a dark tone and to create suspense for the reader.

This is an essay about the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, it is about how two great hunters would hunt each other, and one would become the prey. The protagonist, Sanger Rainsford, fell off of his yacht on his way to Rio to hunt jaguars. He then swam to Ship Trap Island to meet the great hunter, and antagonist, General Zaroff. When Rainsford finds Zaroff’s chateau, and is greeted by General Zaroff’s old dumb and deaf soldier, Ivan. Then shortly after dinner, Rainsford finds out that Zaroff has gotten tired of hunting animals and would like to hunt the greatest animal of all, man, and Zaroff chooses Rainsford as his prey. But, if Rainsford can run from Zaroff for three days, then Zaroff will grant him his freedom. This short story is about two hunters hunting, and one will become the prey of “This Most Dangerous

There are two different types of hunting. When it come to animals hunting other animals for food, they sometimes do it for fun to prove dominance. Humans hunt animals for game or to eat as well.General Zarroff remained confident, in the hunt for rainsford but failed. General Zarroff's character remains the same throughout the story while Rainsford is frightened throughout parts of the story. In the story Zarroff is hunting Rainsford because they made after Zarroff made him have to play his game and if he won he could leave the island that he ends up on, and must fight for his life during a 3 day period. General Zarroff lives on this island and traps people in it so they cannot escape and takes care of them until he can hunt them.Richard Connell uses mood/tone in his story “The Most Dangerous Game” to convey the theme of competition rarely enhances a person’s character.

Hunting is a hobby maid for people who likes to be outside. In the story “The most dangerous game” by Richard Connell shows that it takes skill and practice to survive. Zaroff demonstrates that he is skillful, careless, and harmful.

“The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story by Richard Connell. This is a story about someone named Rainsford who travels across a sea and meets General Zaroff. General Zaroff challenges Rainsford to a fight to the death and Rainsford wins. As one reads the story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, it can believed that the author is trying to create a hunt or be hunted atmosphere. The purpose to showing a hunt or be hunted atmosphere is to explain to the reader how you must defend yourself in certain situations. One way this can be shown is by General Zaroff taking a leap towards finding a “new animal” to hunt as in a human instead of an actual animal. General Zaroff has lost interest in the hunting of regular animals. (Connell 7) Since the loss of

The story “The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story by Richard Connell. In the story the protagonist is being hunted by the antagonist. The protagonist is a hunter named Rainsford who is trapped on an island and is being hunted by a hunter named Zaroff. Of all the characters examined, Rainsford was the most effective protagonist due to his characterization. Throughout the story Rainsford is characterized as humane, and caring of the lives of humans. When he realized who the “intelligent creatures” Zaroff hunted were, he is instantly disgusted and frightened by the thought. This characteristic gave Rainsford the quality of being a “good” human who values life. This benefited how he responded to the struggle of hunting men he faced possibly

“The Most Dangerous Game” is a perfect story to apply Campbell’s paradigm in that the paradigm applies to every aspect of the story apart from the main character being nobly born. A hunting enthusiast by the name of Rainsford is on a yacht heading to Rio when he falls off the side and into the Caribbean Sea. A problem quickly arises when no one can hear his cries for help and the yacht continues to push on with great speed. Absolutely exhausted from swimming all the way to the shore Rainsford immediately passes out. The unfamiliar territory Rainsford encounters is the island he swam to known as “Ship-Trap Island”. The name “Ship-Trap Island” is self-explanatory in that it literally means ships get trapped there constantly. Upon waking up,

We sit in silence scared of what’s outside the deck of the boat. After a few silent seconds Christian stands up and climbs up the ladder, out of our room. I listen to his footsteps as they slowly get quieter and quieter until all that remains is the sound of boots splashing in the water. I look down at my hands as they continue to shake, slide my handgun into the holster, pick up my rifle and follow Christian to the foreign shores of