Rainsford: A Brief Summary Of The Most Dangerous Game

After the visit and the survival of the 72 hour bet, Rainsford killed Zaroff in his room, but we do not know what happened after that. If Rainsford decided to stay at the

It had been a week since Rainsford managed to kill the nefarious General Zaroff. The challenging part was almost over or so it seemed. There was not a clear way for Rainsford to escape. As days passed, Rainsford tried to escape. He tried making a boat from driftwood that he found, he tried swimming, he even tried sending a signal by using a flashlight. Rainsford had become so desperate that he even tried some ridiculous plans like trying to pole vault across the ocean. As a result, Rainsford ended up having huge gashes in his left leg ,which got infected, and he had to amputate it. As days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, Rainsford had lost hope and became bitter.

Would you have been brave enough to play a “game” that was to most likely end in death? In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, a man by the name of Rainsford is clearly brave because of the fact that he played the most dangerous game. His bravery can be proved by his actions, appearance, and speech.

Rainsford is a very skilled man, with many traits, he is a round character. Throughout the book you see rainsford do many things that proves he is a round character. In the book “The Most Dangerous Game” the main character, Rainsford is trying to survive for three days in the wild with a man hunting him. We are constantly hear his thoughts and his perspective on things, we know that Rainsford is a good character because he rejects the idea to hunt with General Zaroff, ad therefore is risking his own life. Rainsford told himself “I will not lose my nerve. I will not” This quote is an example of us the reader hearing his thoughts, which is another reason I think he is a round character. In the definition of round character it says that the character

Rainsford turns out smarter because he lives. Zaroff lost the hunt. Rainsford actually ends up killing him in his own bedroom. Rainsford did not believe in murder but he did believe in protecting

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.

Is Hunting a game? In Richard Connell’s "Dangerous Game", we are presented with these very talented hunters. General Zaroff who was raised a little bit different then Rainsford. General Zaroff was rich and probably had lessons with a professional hunter, which made him become one, but Rainsford manages to be more skilled at hunting. When General Zaroff wanted to play the "Dangerous Game" with Rainsford at the end of the story, Rainsford finally felt what an animal at bay feels which made him better, so he took matters into own hands. so I believe that Rainsford is the better hunter. He is a clever hunter , he is much stronger, and has a better attitude towards human life, which General Zaroff clearly doesn’t care about.

Rainsford was justified in killing General Zaroff. For instance General Zaroff said “Your brain against mine, Your woodcraft against mine.” (Connell 6). This shows that General Zaroff gives right to rainsford to try and outsmart him and try to win by surviving. If rainsford outsmarts him then he will get the victory or he can do what Zaroff wanted to do to him which was kill him. Also Rainsford disagreed when Zaroff told him about the hunting game. “No,General,”he said “I will not hunt.” Then Zaroff basically said he had to or ivan will kill him.(Connell 9).This quote means that Rainsford did not like the idea that he had to stay in a jungle and

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

The last way the setting builds suspense is when Rainsford is in the jungle and trying to fight off Zaroff. Rainsford is in the jungle hiding, and tricking Zaroff by giving him an impossible trail to follow. Running terrified for his life he must find a way to get ahead of Zaroff.“He caught hold of a springy young sapling and to it he fastened his hunting knife, with the blade pointing down the trail; with a bit of grapevine he tied back the sapling”(45). Zaroff is chasing him so as a result, he is running and trying to hide. Therefore Rainsford is trying to get away from Zaroff.

In the Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford is shown as smart, skillful, and brave. Rainsford is being brave when he jumps off a cliff into the water. “Then he leaped far out into the sea” (Connell 80). When he jumps into the water, it proved that he was brave because he was willing to do anything to get away from Zaroff. As much as Rainsford is brave though, he is equally smart. Rainsford is extremely smart with the way he handles being forced to play “the game”. “He thought of a native trick he has learned in Uganda“ (Connell 78). With the traps and the way he acts, he is smart and knows what he is doing. He knows how to build those traps or how to act because of experience and

Rainsford from “The most Dangerous Game”, was the most effective protagonist from all of this year’s stories. Rainsford is a hunter who fell of his ship and ended up on a dangerous remote island with a military general, the military general named Zaroff was a phycopath who liked to hunt men for sport. Rainsford ability to think quickly leads him to be a effective protagonist. The narrator says,” Rainsford knew he could do one of two things … an idea that held a wild chance to him.” Rainsford thinks about what to do next and decides on the best idea that will have the best outcome, he can solve tough problems quickly and effectively. Rainsford is good at being calm whenever something is thrown at him. Rainsford says,” I will not lose my nerve,

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the main character, Rainsford,falls off of a yacht that he is aboard of while on his way to Rio De Janeiro. When falling off the yacht he encounters a few obstacles on the way to shore, Rainsford gets stuck in the waves created by the boat and is slowly drowning, as he calls for help no one hears him and it gets harder for him to cry for help as the sea water keeps rushing into his mouth. At a slow pace rainsford swims himself to land after hearing three gunshots. He looks at the bullet shells and notices that they are large and a big animal must have been killed, and if a big animal is killed then there's someone who killed it, and if there's someone then there's must be food.

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the author used narrative devices to show the function of each main character. At the beginning of the story, the main character Rainsford was very relaxed and did not believe in superstitions or get scared easily. Rainsford and his friend Whitney were on a hunting trip to Rio de Janeiro. One night on their trip to the mainland, Rainford was in his cabin and was very relaxed, he was smoking his favorite pipe, but then he was startled by gunshots and decided to go try to find out where they were coming from. As Rainsford made his way to find out where the shots were coming from he dropped his pipe over the side of the boat, but when Rainford reached over the rail to try to receive it he fell into