Rainford's Use Of Narrative Devices In The Most Dangerous Game

Being able to overcome something in life is a great feeling. When you want to give up, but your inner body says no. The ability to overcome that feeling, although your mind and physical ability tells you no, is special. In Richard Connel's short story "The Most Dangerous Game," big game as Sanger Rainsford is tested in the following ways: strong versus the weak, the value of life, and becoming what he fears. Next, we will go into great detail about how Rainsford handles his weakness.

The story The Most Dangerous Game is a short story that portrays terror and fear, a sense of danger, and also the hatred that animals feel for their killer at the same time as making a contemporary correlation to real life. The short story was written during the era when animal hunting was common with the rich folks. The Most Dangerous Game as the name implies, is indeed a dangerous game.

The general made one of his deepest bows. "I see," he said. "Splendid! One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed. On guard, Rainsford."

Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous explains multiple theories, such as nature versus nurture, and survival of the fittest. This short story also seems to have an underlying theme of Social Darwinism (Of Two Classes). Throughout the entirety of the short story, Connell shows a character change of a main character, Rainsford, who is at a constant battle with General Zaroff, the antagonist. This character change shows the importance of the mindset of characters, and how it can be applied to everyday life.

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is the exciting tale of Sanger Rainsford’s journey to Ship-Trap Island. Rainsford meets a fellow hunting fanatic, General Zaroff, when Rainsford gets stranded on the island. While on the island Rainsford discusses hunting with General Zaroff and Rainsford learns something unusual about the generals preferred hunt. The general invites Rainsford to participate in the hunt, but Rainsford politely declines. He does not agree with the general’s morals and preference on the hunt. The general then forces Rainsford to hunt, but not as a partner as his prey. This essay is to determine if this short story The Most Dangerous Game is an escape or an interpretive literature. Escape literature is primarily for imaginative entertainment, while Interpretive is to provide insight to the world and to give you a different outlook on life.

     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.

Being lost in an island, hungry, and tired is not an everyday thing. So Rainsford being in that situation, had no other choice than except Zaroff’s generosity. Zaroff gave Rainsford clothes, food and, a place to sleep. Zaroff tells Rainsford to join him for dinner, and Rainsford went to the dinner room as told. Sitting down eating there meal. The two men’s starts a conversation and starts to talk about their lives. Zaroff learns a lot of things about Rainsford and so does Rainsford. Rainsford learns that Zaroff is a smart man and a hunter just like him, but Zaroff him hunting people is part of things that he hunts for. Zaroff on another hand learns that Rainsford is a pretty smart, educated man and lastly a hunter.4

In the story The Most Dangerous Game there are three characters who all have a passion for hunting even though all three hunters share different and similar viewpoints on the sport.

One of the most relaxing things to do is read a good story. In the stories there are interesting elements such as suspenseful events, interesting characters, and deep themes. Here are examples of important literary elements in stories.

In the story, The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford gets trapped on Ship-trap Island and has no way to get out so he needs a food source to survive. He needs to hunt for food, he can't only eat plants the whole time he is there. Before Rainsford fell off the boat, he was talking to his friend about how “the hunter had his nerve with him to tackle [the animal] with a light gun” (Connell 22). Rainsford knows when a gun is too small to hunt an animal, it seems that Rainsford clearly knows a lot about hunting, considering he has been hunting his whole life. As Rainsford has been walking around for awhile, he comes across this huge mansion, he is invited inside and as he is walking “the hall [there] were mounted heads of many animals-- lions, tigers,

In the short story ”The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford was justified in killing General Zaroff. General Zaroff was a hunter who lived on an isolated island where he hunted stranded humans. Rainsford was also a hunter, who had been stranded on the island. General Zaroff intended to hunt Rainsford, which lead to Rainsford effort to survive. The only way for Rainsford to survive was to kill General Zaroff.

Using what you know is useful to life because you had to learn to look both ways before you cross a street. Well, that's how Rainford feels in Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game.” The issue in this story is that Zaroff (hunter) likes to play a game where he kills people. Rainsford ( hunted), on the other hand, is just a guy who was sleeping and fell off board and went to an island called ship trap island. That's the place where Zaroff kills people. One important lesson readers can learn from Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” is use what you know to survive.

The Ultimate conflicts for Sanger Rainsford Many people tell tales of survival on an island or many stories of people facing off against each other one on one until on dies. Sanger Rainsford encounters this after falling out of a boat. Sanger has to fight his way through harsh waters, a very suspenseful man versus nature conflict, before making it to shore. While Sanger is on the island, he finds a house where there is a man inside named Ivan who points a gun at Sanger’s heart.

Have you ever had to survive on your own? The short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell Rainsford must face Zaroff on his island where he must survive through a hunt, where he is the prey. In this short story Rainsford is a realist, cunning, and confident.