Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

Some people claim that Richard Connell did not succeed in creating his short story compelling. The short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” is the story of a man who is left on an island. He discovers that on this island is a rich hunter who, as a result of his boredom in the ease of hunting, has begun hunting other humans. Richard Connell successfully creates a compelling piece of literature through plot, figurative language and theme.

C.S. Lewis one said “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny”. Facing hardships and breaking free from their normal world allows the hero inside of people to come out. Many stories document this journey of a hero through the Hero’s Journey Archetype. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, a man named Rainsford stumbles upon an island where humans are hunted by a crazed man. The hero’s journey archetype is implemented throughout Rainsford’s experiences in the story. Richard Connell used the Hero’s Journey Archetype to structure the plot and develop the theme that with clever thinking and the use of past experiences, one can succeed at anything.

The Most Dangerous Game was a story made by Richard Connell in 1924, and had a movie adaptation in 1932. The short story tells about a man stranded on an island by the name of Rainsford. He finds Zaroff, a general with a great lust for hunting, who hunts people and Rainsford himself going to be hunted. He then attempts to outwit the general and ends up possibly taking his place. The film tries to encapsulate the excitement and story of the original version with more enticing visual effects and mostly succeeds. Although the film shares many themes and characteristics as the story, it has also changed many key factors.

The author of “The Most Dangerous Game” is Richard Connell. Richard Connell is an American author and journalist, who wrote a lot of short stories and few novels. His short stories appeared in the Saturday Evening

Have you ever been hunted down by a psychopath war general, rabid pack of dogs, and a giant mute knouter named Ivan, and escaped? “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, is about a man named Rainsford who gets stranded on an island with an insane head honcho on a small, isolated island in the Caribbean sea. Behind every work of literature, are literary elements that make it successful. “The Most Dangerous Game” is successful due to descriptive imagery, suspenseful plot, and ability to get to the point.

     The most dangerous game began as a sport for one man. His name is Sanger Rainsford. In Richard Connell’s story “The Most Dangerous Game,” Sanger Rainsford, an avid hunter, is lost at sea, stranded on “Ship-Trap” Island-every sailor’s worst nightmare. Rainsford goes through a series of events that prove to be life-altering. Even though Sanger Rainsford went through many trials and tribulations, he never lost his intelligence, composure, or his bravery.

In order to emphasize his recurring theme of reason versus instinct, Connell first sets the scene for the story’s setting, the setting Connell chooses for “The Most Dangerous Game” fits exceptionally well alongside both the story’s plot, as well as, its literary element of suspense. By introducing the idea of a mysterious island at the very start of the story

Hunting big game animals for sport was a popular pastime with the wealthy classes following World War I. The morality of killing for sport was not questioned in reality, but in this short story the author does question it by taking it a step further and having the protagonist, Sangor Rainsford, hunted by the antagonist, General Zaroff.In a short story full of irony, one of the greatest ironies of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” is that General Zaroff repeatedly tells Rainsford that he maintains a sense of civilization on his island.

In “The Most Dangerous Game”, author Richard Connell uses a variety of literary device to depict the theme. He uses the main character, Rainsford, to be the character which unfolds the theme as he goes through the experience of being treated like a wild animal and becoming the prey of another human for sport. Connell uses three literary devices frequently including foreshadowing, irony and symbolism in order to support the main theme, put yourself in the shoes of the animals you hunt.

“Obstacles are put in your way to see if what you want is really worth fighting for.” These words written anonymously explain how one can pick and chose their battles when obstacles are thrown their way. Fighting obstacles and challenges is one of the main themes surrounding Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” The story’s main character, Rainsford, is a young man who takes pride in hunting. However, when he falls off his boat and ends up on an island, he faces obstacles where he has to hunt more than just animals. Rainsford is left with the consequence of committing murder to protect himself. First, his goal is to make it off the island alive. Consequently, Rainsford ends up having to commit murder in order to live. Therefore, Rainsford’s motivation to get off the island alive comes with the consequence of killing someone.

The value of human life occupies an indispensable role in Connell’s drama. After washing ashore on a Caribbean Island, Sanger Rainsford, the story’s protagonist, is faced with the question when he meets the haunting General Zaroff. A hunting enthusiast, the General explains his dissatisfaction in hunting traditional game while he and Rainsford, also a skilled sportsman, enjoy an evening meal. As even the most dangerous of quarry has become tiresome to Zaroff, the General explains how he has turned to hunting human beings, luring them to his island and setting them loose in his reserve. Rainsford’s disgust is apparent; his disposition indignant as he eagerly labels the Generals actions as murder. It is not until the end of the story, after Rainsford has been pursued as Zaroff’s prey, that the reader observes a change in Rainsford’s views. In either a momentary acceptance of the

Richard Edward Connell was an American author, who was probably most famous for the short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Connell started writing at the age of 10 covering baseball games for his father 's paper. By the age of sixteen he had become the editor of the Poughkeepsie News-Press. Connell was a very smart man who studied at Georgetown and Harvard.While at Harvard he was the editorial chairman. Connell 's writing style was usually action-adventure. Some of his works were probably inspired from his time working as a homicide journalist, and serving in World War I. By the time Connell passed away he had published over 300 short stories. Richard Connell was a very unique author from experiences he had through out his life, and so was the writing style that he portrayed.

People often read a book or short story and then watch the movie based on that story. “The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story that was made into a movie; the movie is not as interesting as the short story. Two important differences between the movie and the short story are setting and character.

I would consider The Most Dangerous Game as commercial fiction. The story is written with the purpose to entertain and as an escape for the reader. It is short and easier to read. Moreover, it does not require the reader to think a lot. The story has specific themes and a plot that a reader can easily follow. In the entire story, there are two main characters, Rainsford the protagonist and General Zaroff, the antagonist. The story starts in the yacht with Rainsford expressing the sigh of no fear and sympathy to animals when he was talking to Whitney. It describes how he fell off the yacht and found himself in the hands of general Zaroff a human hunter, who requested to pray a hunting game. General Zeroff explained to

When choosing a book to read, one might pick a certain work of fiction over the other for different reasons. Depending on whether a reader would want to read a book in order to escape from the harsh realities of life or have a clearer mindset about the world around them, they would choose a piece of work that is either commercial fiction or literary fiction. The reader might choose a story that fits into the commercial fiction category such as “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell if they would want to relax and enjoy a novel for their own amusement. However if the reader would like to grasp a better understanding of the world, then they might choose something more involved in the literary fiction category, like “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff. Literary works are not necessarily only one type of fiction but instead are viewed as part of a spectrum. On one side there would be those stories who are strictly commercial fiction, while those on the other side are literary fiction. There are at least three different ways readers can tell if a piece is literary fiction, and that is if the story takes place in a realistic place with more relatable characters, if the story shows more human characteristics than the action of the plot, and if the story has an ending such that is not completely resolved.