General Zaroff

Zaroff is hunting Rainsford , Rainsford builds a Malay man catcher to try and trap the General, but the General escapes it and is very impressed by Rainsfords actions. “Luckily for me, I have hunted in Malacca. You are proving interesting Mr. Rainsford. I am going now, to have my wound dressed; it's only a slight one, but I shall be back. I shall be back.”

Some of these traps include spike boards, venomous snake pit, etc. In the chapter “How to Tell a True War Story” a “boy”- Curt Lemon stepped on a booby trap, he was blown up. The main purpose of these instruments of war was to delay and frustrate the enemy. These traps instilled fear among the

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford, a famous hunter, finds himself on Ship-Trap island after falling overboard a yacht. After arriving on the island, he meets its owner, General Zaroff, another avid hunter. He soon discovers that General Zaroff has grown bored of hunting animals, and now he hunts men he traps on the island. The protagonist, Rainsford and the antagonist, General Zaroff have conflicting morals, attitudes, and personalities. These differences cause them to become mortal enemies, pitted against each other in a game to the death. During the rising action of the story, General Zaroff explains to Rainsford that he hunts humans because he has become

Brief summary: The Most Dangerous Game is about hunter Sanger Rainsford, who washes up on the shore of an island called Ship Trap Island that has a terrible infamy, where he soon meets General Zaroff, who hunts human beings which is the most dangerous game for sport. Zaroff hunts Rainsford, but in the end Rainsford gets the better of him.

Not many men know how to make a Malay Man catcher. Luckily for me, too have hunted in Malacca. You are proving interesting, Mr Rainsford, I am going now to have my wond taken care of. It’s only a slight one. But I shall be back. I shall be back!” (Connell pg 17) Zaroff said with frustration. Rainsford thought to himself “I will not lose my nerve.” ( Connell pg 17) Rainsford was trying to get off the island because Zaroff was trying to kill him, but Zaroff made him hunt with him and Rainsford eventually realized that he was the game, so he had to fight back. Fight against Zaroff and fight along with nature not against.

This depicts that Zaroff is the predator hunting his prey, Rainsford. His goal is to hunt down his target and kill it (Rainsford). Personification was also represented in the quote when it describes that the trap had caught something. The Burmese tiger pit had caught its prey, a hound, showing to Rainford that his trap was quite successful. These quotes show that because General Zaroff underestimate Rainsford the other day by letting him live, he made a huge mistake. That caused him, one of his best hounds to die and that was his fault for not killing Rainsford when he had the perfect chance. This is what he deserved for hunting the most dangerous game for quite a long time and not taking the game seriously at the beginning. From what both symbolism and personification can depict, repetition can show that as well.

In the short story by Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game, Sanger Rainsford finds himself in a sticky situation when he meets General Zaroff. General Zaroff is a very talented hunter and had become tired of hunting the same old animals as always, they bored him as he explained in the story, he had now moved on to the best prey he could find, a prey that could fight and think for themselves, and that prey was humans. Rainsford is taken aback by this confession and is alarmed, he asks Zaroff to let him go, but Zaroff has other plans. In order for Rainsford to get off the island alive he must survive three full days on the island while being hunted by General Zaroff. Rainsford agrees, knowing that if declines this choice his life would have a much more unpleasant future. And so the the hunt began, but Rainsford had some tricks up his sleeve.

This is demonstrated in the way that he sets up the traps for General Zarrof. When Rainsford sets the traps for General Zaroff he is really sure that his techniques are going to work very well. Rainsford sets three traps for General Zaroff. The first trap is a Maylay man-catcher, He sets up a dead tree so that it will come down and hit Zaroff. As Zaroff flees from the first trap Rainsford quickly digs a pit a few feet from the quicksand and puts sharpened sticks at the bottom.

Sanger Rainsford is a civil man who respects human life in the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connell. Rainsford thinks killing humans for sport is inhumane and murderous. On the other hand Zaroff is unintelligent, overconfident and finds hunting humans for sport is normal and entertaining. Rainsford also being knowledgeable and polite and is proved multiple times in the text by quotes, details and thoughts of Rainsford and General Zaroff.

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Connell, Richard, Sanger Rainsford outsmarts General Zaroff in many ways. Here are three ways he outsmarted General Zaroff. Sanger Rainsford makes traps that surprises General Zaroff. He climbed a tree to hide from Zaroff. Rainsford ended up defeating Zaroff. Here are the ways he did.

In the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game", Rainsford was justified in the killing of General Zaroff. Rainsford was an animal hunter on his way to Rio, that fell off his yacht. He swam to Ship-Trap island and he met Ivan and General Zaroff. General Zaroff let Mr. Rainsford stay in his mansion and he provided food and clothing. As Rainsford got to know General Zaroff. he found out General Zaroff trap men on the island to hunt them like they are animals.

Rainsford’s could have many motives as to why he killed the security guard, Ivan. When Rainsford finally finds a place to stay for the night, Ivan does not let him in. He refuses to let him come in and take care of his needs for the night. To be stranded in an unknown island and finally finding a place to stay and then being refused, could make anyone angry. Killing Ivan for saying no is a childish reason, therefore it could be murder. Also, Ivan was the first to bring a pack of dogs to Rainsford’s hiding place to get him killed. Any of these two reasons could support the idea that Rainsford committed murder. After killing Ivan in the jungle, Rainford returns back to the cottage and threatens to kill the general next. Rainford did not seem to be satisfied about Ivan, “‘I am still a beast at bay’” (Connell 42). To assuage his mind and heart, Rainsford comes back for the general. It is true that the general is a criminal, but Rainsford could have been the smarter person take the general to the police. Taking the laws in hands can sometimes cause problems for the individual. Rainsford’s reason to kill the general could be because the general wanted to kill Rainsford first. Again, Rainsford could try to convince the general that what he does every night is wrong. After learning about the general’s motives, Rainsford wanted to erase him. Killing Ivan and the general was an act of vengeance that Rainsford thought

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell a man named Rainsford fell off of a ship and had to swim to an island nearby. When he arrived on the island a man named general Zaroff was there to meet him. Zaroff soon reveals the fact that he hunts humans on his island to Rainsford. The only way for Rainsford to escape the is to survive three days of being hunted by Zaroff. In the end of the book Rainsford outwits Zaroff and beats Zaroff.

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, we are introduced to a protagonist named Sanger Rainsford, who is a celebrated hunter, in addition to being a resourceful, logical man with certain moral ambiguities. The story follows Rainsford in a harrowing adventure that pushes the limits of his physical and psychological capabilities as he is pitted against the psychopathic antagonist, General Zaroff, in a hunt for his life. Throughout the story, Rainsford proves himself to be extremely resourceful. His travels all over the world as a hunter gave him a multitude of hunting and survival skills, and even Zaroff is impressed with Rainsford’s Burmese tiger pit and Uganda knife spring, which claims the general’s hounds and servant,

Rainsford also shows boldness when he made a trap he learned how to make called the Malay man-catcher. Where he injures the generals shoulder, which was very hard considering that he had a knife and the general had a pistol. ” But he