Rainford's Game In The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game’’ Rainsford was justified in killing General Zaroff. The story is about a hunter named Rainsford whose boat sank, and he swam to Ship Trap island. He finds a house there, and he found out it belongs to General Zaroff. General Zaroff is also a hunter, and he made up “The Most Dangerous Game’’. It’s about a game about General Zaroff killing humans, because he thinks it’s more challenging.

Topic sentence: In “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, Rainsford demonstrates his remarkable level of calmness while staring at the face of unpredictable life and death scenarios.

Survival Essay In, “The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford was going on a hunting trip and was on the top of his yacht when he lost his footing and fell off into the ocean. To survive this mistake he had to use previous experience, instinct, and perseverance to survive. When he fell off the yacht he used instinct when he took off his shoes so it would make it easier for him to survive. He persevered being stranded in the ocean when he remembered where he heard a gunshot and swam to where that was because he knew there would be someone there. Later when he made it to an island, he met someone who eventually tried and hunt him.

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 Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell shows that main character was Sanger Rainsford; he was very bold and liked to take a chance at anything for a hunting trip. Rainsford shows his strength of character in the story by, “ fresh vitality he swam toward the sound. He heard it again; then it was cut short by another noise, crisp, staccato. Pistol shot,” in this quote Rainsford shows he is bold by swimming towards the danger of the gunfire and screams even though it could have been to his demise too.

In the story "The Most Dangerous Game", the two main characters, General Zaroff and Rainsford, met on an island and from there the conflict takes off. Rainsford is a world renowned hunter who has hunted game all across the world. He has also written several books about hunting, which General Zaroff had personally read. General Zaroff, on the other hand, was Russian nobility. He and his assistant, Ivan, were both Cossacks who had fled Russia after the Russian Revolution. Zaroff, who had hunted since he was young, then used his fortune and skills to hunt exotic game all across the world. Eventually, he became bored with animals that lacked the ability to reason, so he turned his hunt toward the one animal who could reason, humans. He then

Dangerous Game,” is about a man who stepped in the home of danger, and he doesn't even realize it. Rainsford was a very happy man doing what he loved: hunting big game. When Rainsford had a tragic accident, he figured out he was no longer hunting big game; perhaps he was the big game. Rainsford discovered he needed to use his physical strength, intelligence, and instincts to escape from danger also known as General Zaroff. The tragic accident caused Rainsford to use his physical strength.

A man hunting humans because he is bored with hunting animals! On Ship-Trap Island humans are being hunted by another human. General Zaroff is one of the main characters in “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell. Zaroff encounters a surprise when he notices that Rainsford has appeared on his island. General Zaroff is a self-centered, psychotic and cruel man which ends up leading to his death.

He not only hunts humans and kills them for sport, but enjoys doing so. After all, the general only sees humans as beasts to be hunted. Zaroff does not even see his right-hand man, Ivan, as a human being, for he professes here, "Like all his [Ivan's] race, a bit of a savage. He is a Cossack . . . So am I."(Connell 24) This not only displays General Zaroff's opinion of his servant, but his own point of view regarding most human beings. However, General Zaroff does not only exercise every meaning of cruelty in a physical sense, but utilizes it in a psychological sense as well. Because of this psychological warfare that Zaroff wages against Rainsford, he fails to kill Rainsford the first, second, and third night. As an additional note, Zaroff also pushed Rainsford to the point where Rainsford would not give up on taking Zaroff's life, even if it meant that Rainsford would have to stoop to the level of morality known as murder. For an example of this internal game Zaroff plays with Rainsford, Connell wrote, "The general's eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree. . . the sharp eyes of the hunter stopped before they reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread over his brown face."(Connell 32) This means that Zaroff knew that Rainsford was there, yet did not kill him for an unspecified reason. Those few actions could be overconfidence, or it could be General

In the short story The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell, Rainsford is introduced as a character that has a vast amount of knowledge and a strong passion for hunting. Throughout the story we can see how Rainsford changes from being a scared individual to becoming someone who fights in order to survive no matter how scary things seem. This is an example of the quote "Character is what you are in the dark", because we see how Rainsford's character begins to develop throughout the story. An instance where Rainsford is seen as a different person when he is alone is when he says, “Be a realist.

In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” man versus man is one of the biggest conflicts. In the story it is Rainsford versus General Zaroff. Zaroff challenges Rainsford to a game, a hunting game. General Zaroff will try and hunt Rainsford. Zaroff use to hunt animals but he got bored of it, so he moved on to hunt humans. Zaroff lived on a island and it was surrounded by rocks. He put two lights on the two largest rocks indicating that was a safe way to go for ships because there were no rocks in between them, but it was a trap, in between the the two large rocks where more rocks. So the ships would sink and the sailors would swim to the island where Zaroff would hunt them. When Rainsford found out about this he was disgusted. Rainsford says to General Zaroff, “‘Hunting? Great guns, General Zaroff what you speak of is murder’”(7). But Rainsford had to either pick Zaroff’s hunting game or be tortured by Ivan. Rainsford chose to play the game with General Zaroff and the General was very happy because Rainsford was also a hunter so it was a challenge for him. While Rainsford was being hunted he made traps, the traps never managed to kill Zaroff, they killed his best hunting dog and Ivan. The man vs man conflict gives this

Rainsford once said to General Zaroff, “Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder” (Connell 64). Rainsford is proving to the reader he know what a bad choice is and this is one of them. After looking over Rainsford and Zaroff differences, the book shows they are different in their

“Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game” (Rodrigues). Hunting is unfair. Only one of the side knows what’s going on while the other side is completely clueless and is unprepared for anything when this side is going to lose. A sport also called a game, is fair and harder to win since both sides know what’s going on like a game. However, in The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, General Zaroff provides items and information to Sanger Rainsford to turn hunting into a sport. In order to win the sport, Rainsford must defeat General Zaroff. Although Rainsford opposes General Zaroff's ideas of hunting, Rainsford and General Zaroff are skillful to play the game.

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