Plot Summary: The Most Dangerous Game

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Rainsford, a big game hunter, falls overboard on his boat and falls into the Caribbean Sea. He struggles to keep his head up but he manages to make it to the closest island shore. Rainsford soon discovers that he is on shipwreck island, a island that most people don’t escape. While he explores the island he runs into many life threatening encounters. In order to escape he will have to come up with good skills to keep him alive while he participates in General Zaroff’s game. In order to win this game he will have to hide in the jungle for three nights and to not get seen or caught, and if he does then General Zaroff, another hunter, gets to kill him. Many survival traits are developed throughout the story that keeps Rainsford alive. In the “Most

Zaroff hunts people for his own entertainment and does not care about their fear. Zaroff kills many in cold blood, admitting to killing many and being surprised when Rainsford is appalled. Zaroff does not even have value for the life of his own workers. He seems to care little about the death of Ivan, setting his death aside as a minor inconvenience because he must be replaced. Zaroff’s lack of respect for human life shows that he is a villain and gives Rainsford more motivation to defeat Zaroff as a villain. Rainsford, a moral character, understands Zaroff’s evil work, and knows he has to stop Zaroff. Zaroff having this trait also develops Rainsford’s character, because he realizes that killing without considering the feelings of the victim is evil as it is embodied by Zaroff. Rainsford originally thought otherwise. Zaroff’s nonexistent value of life helps develop characters and give reason for his defeat, in turn strengthening his role as

General Zaroff is killed by Rainsford. Zaroff was killed by Rainsford because Zaroff had killed people for fun. Since General Zaroff did killed humans, karma came back around and he was killed. When Zaroff was hunting for Rainsford, Rainsford sets up a trap and it kills Ivan, Zaroff’s only friend. General Zaroff has killed humans that have their own friends and family. Ivan was taken away from General Zaroff as a sign of karma. While Zaroff is looking to kill Rainsford, Zaroff doesn’t know that Rainsford had a trap set up to kill Zaroff. When General Zaroff realized that he had been set up for a trap, he quickly moved out of the way. Even though Zaroff moved out of the way, the trap still hurt his shoulder. Zaroff had hurt other people during the past games that he had played, so he got hurt playing the game. General Zaroff has learned that what goes around, comes

Zaroff was fascinated by Rainsford and his work. Both were awestruck by big game hunting. Rainsford was beginning to find Zaroff as a true cosmopolite, but there was something that still bothered Rainsford. The two men commuted for a while and Rainsford was amused when Zaroff said that he was hunting more dangerous game than what Rainsford thought to be the most dangerous big game of all. Zaroff tells Rainsford that, although he hunted the big game, he had to stock the island himself. A little while later Rainsford was told by Zaroff that he hunted humans. He asked Rainsford to join, and Rainsford, scared, agreed. The next night Rainsford refused to hunt. Zaroff tells Rainsford if he didn't hunt he would become the

Rainsford responds by saying, “‘Hunting? Great Guns, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder’” (Connell 12). Rainsford confronts Zaroff about his game he has created and tells him that it’s murder, and nothing but murder, to go hunt people like that.

He is a philosopher and shares his view of the world with others; “Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and, if needs to be, taken by the strong.” He imposes his ideology of how the world works. Zaroff looks positively on the cruel and foul acts he committed with reasoning: “I assure you, I do not do the things you suggest… I treat these visitors with every consideration…” He justifies his acts and tries to convince Rainsford that he is right. He makes it sound like he is not setting his victims to their deaths and that it is all fun and games. However he puts it, Zaroff is still an evil yet ingenious mass

Later that night, Rainsford went into Zaroff’s house and cornered him in his

General Zaroff is from Russia and he is also a clever hunter with a lot of impressive fur. At the beginning of the story, Zaroff seemed like a very refined and polished man, but as the story progressed Rainsford finds out actually how sick and twisted this man is. General Zaroff created the island Ship-Trap to lure people into coming on his island and forcing them play his game. Unfortunately Rainsford is one of the unlucky few that gets lured into

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.

Rainsford also had to kill the General Zaroff and Ivan because they were going to kill him. Rainsford was going to die because General Zaroff was talking about the people he killed before. General Zaroff and Ivan were willing to kill. They have killed before and will do it again. General Zaroff talking to Rainsford saying" The fellow lost his head. He made a straight trail that offered no problems at all" (Connell 36). General Zaroff was a highly experienced hunter. He searched all over the world for a good hunt. Now he hunts people, just to have fun. Rainsford is a victim of his game. General Zaroff was willing to kill. General Zaroff was talking about murdering

Rainsford answers, “Yes, that’s so” (85). Rainsford could have taken a stand. Of course, it is not his place, but he was calm and composed to sit back and let Zaroff open up. ‘“Don’t be alarmed, I’m Sanger Rainsford” (47). Rainsford has a pistol pointed at his heart and he is telling this huge creation of a man that he is hungry. As much as he has been through in the past twenty-four hours, this did not alarm Rainsford. He presented himself as lost and from New York.

“So it was you who killed my father? You know what this means right Mr.Rainsford? I’ll have to finish what my father couldn’t. I’ll give you approximately three days to leave this island. At the end of the three days, I’ll come search for you, and if I find you I’ll kill you. So let the hunt begin.”

Zaroff was different than Rainsford in some ways. Zaroff believes the world is made up of two groups, the strong and the weak. In his mind, he thought the strong should rule over the weak. He believed he was the strong and wanted to rule over the weak. In his mind, he thought that he should be able to use his vast skills in hunting. Unlike Rainsford, Zaroff used his accelerated experience in hunting an unjust way by hunting other humans when he didn’t have to. But in the end karma came around and bit him in the butt when Rainsford killed

Initially zaroff's all the Rainsford as a friend and a fellow hunter. Midway through the story, on the hunt, Zaroff changed his view of Rainsford from a fellow hunter to an adversary. At the end of the story, Zaroff continued to see Rainsford as an adversary but he saw him as an adversary he can not defeat. As well as his view of Rainsford, General Zaroff's view of the setting changed by the end of the story. Beginning the story, Zaroff saw the setting, the island, as a safe place with a positive atmosphere.