Rainsford Alternate Ending

In the book “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the protagonist, Sanger Rainsford Is on a yacht, to Rio when he fell overboard. He swam until he finally reached a island, where he later met a man known as General Zaroff. Rainsford got involved with General Zaroff’s Manhunt. Rainsford had to have skills if he wanted to survive the manhunt. The three skills he had were, how to make a Malay Mancatcher, his hunting skills and a trick he learned when he was in Uganda.

As Rainsford and General Zaroff are in a battle. On page 801 Zaroff says “Your strength and stamina is mine.” After Rainsford refuses Zaroff's present to hunt him as human prey, the two men agree that if Rainsford can survive long enough, he can leave the island. Sanger Rainsfords whole life has been committed to hunting. Now he is the prey, and he is the hunted. When Rainsford was becoming the hunted it most likely gave him a whole new point of view of all living things lives. His views on the jaguar made him think about it and become a lot more equal with the jaguar. This change to Rainsford makes him realize that everything is alike and they all have lives. The change to him made him think every living thing are equal especially the

This essay will be about the book “The Most Dangerous Game” a book about a hunter named Rainsford who falls from his yacht and swam to an island called “Ship-Trap Island” and finds a huge palace like chateau. Living in that chateau is a hunter of different sorts named General Zaroff. I will be explaining why I think Rainsford bested Zaroff at his own game.

Rainsford becomes the new general of Ship Trap island because him and General Zaroff have very similar personality traits. “ ‘I'll give him a trail to follow,’ muttered Rainsford, and he struck off from the rude path he had been following into the trackless wilderness. He executed a series of intricate loops.’ Then later Zaroff says, ‘I have hunted every kind of game in every land. It would be impossible for me to tell you how many animals I have killed.”Not only are Rainsford and General Zaroff both hunters, but also they are very good and smart hunters. The quote that Rainsford says is from during the hunt and it describes him making an intricate trail for Zaroff. He is using all of his skills and being very smart to try to lead Zaroff in

The yacht left Rainsford because they had no idea he fell off. As the yacht continued on its journey to Brazil its lights “became faint and ever-vanishing; then they were blotted out entirely by the night.”(Connell 21) as Rainsford floated in the water and watched. Rainsford fell off the boat and no one on the boat realized he had so, he became stranded. Zaroff's hounds would kill Rainsford if he tried to leave the house at night. Zaroff made sure his hounds “are let out at seven every night. If anyone should try to get in my house or out of it something extremely regrettable would occur to him”(Connell 29). The hounds had Rainsford trapped in the house, they would kill him if he tried to leave the house at night, preventing him from getting off the island. While Rainsford played the game he couldn’t get enough lead way to try to get away and escape. Even if Rainsford had managed to get far enough from Zaroff to develop a plan to escape the island the sea roaring “twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed”(Connell 36) so swimming was excluded from the plan. The island was surrounded by the ocean and he had no way to get off the island, other than a boat. Rainsford was only the prey in a really big game of “survival of the fittest.” Rainsford felt as if “He was in a picture with a frame of water, and his operations, clearly, must take place within that frame.”(Connell 32). He had nowhere to go other than the island, he only had the island itself to take refuge and hide. Despite what Rainsford wishes there is no reasonable way to get off the island, which is uninhabited by game animals for Rainsford to hunt. Rainsford knows what it is like to be hunted, so he will take pity and mercy on the game animals he

The island Rainsford was stranded on symbolized the evilness. Richard Cornell describe the island saying, “The place has a bad reputation- a bad one”. (Cornell 63) The words from the quote suggests that the island is known as a horrible place to be stuck on. In most human conditions when a person hears about a place and their reputation they tend to start developing fear about being stuck in that place. Rainsford was an example of a person who had to go through the island alone to overcome a fear of evilness. Richard Cornell uses symbolism when he writes, “Even so, I rather think they understand one thing-fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death”. (Cornell 63) The symbolism implies and suggest that Rainsford was going to understand the fear death in a dark place before he survive. Ironically, many people go through darkness when they suffer a

“Due to being the only reigning champion of your sick twisted games Zaroff, I believe I should be given the reward of turning the tables.” Rainsford’s heart was still racing as the adrenaline of coming face to face with his captor coursed through his veins. Rainsford knew it was one of the worst options for him to return to the island after making such a jump. He should’ve attempted to swim far, far away although that may have just resulted in his death.

Any sane person would choose to say leave the island and live their life normally, including Rainsford. Rainsford would not want to repeat the gruesome times him and others went through. First of all Rainsford would not want to have more people suffer in the same way he

The story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is a good story, in this story the protagonist is Rainsford and the antagonist is Zaroff. A Lot of times in the story Rainsford shows courage there are a lot of examples of this. For example “Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff what you speak of is murder(Connell pg 19)” here Rainsford stands up to Zaroff even though he knows that Zaroff is a manhunter, this shows that Rainsford has courage. Second, Connell gives another example of Rainsford being courageous “Where there are pistol shots there are men. Where there are men,there is food(Connell pg 10)” this is after Rainsford heard three pistol shots when he was swimming, this proves that he has courage because he actually wants to go towards

Rainsford had arrived on the shore of Ship-Trap Island after falling off a yacht. According to the narrator, “Bleak darkness was blacking out the sea and jungle when Rainsford sighted the lights” (Connell 45). The island Rainsford arrived on was filled with darkness, with light only coming from Zaroff’s château. The use of setting signifies the importance of where the story is taking place. In the beginning of the story, the island was described as dark, giving a feeling of indistinction.This setting first overwhelmed Rainsford, for he did not know what to do. The setting of the jungle is described as a location of being constrictive because it did not allow Rainsford to return back home. Rainsford used his instinct to navigate though the unknowns of Ship-Trap Island. Zaroff had the confidence of navigating the island’s challenges, so he distrusted his instinct. While setting helped reveal the message of the story, characterization also supported the author’s argument.

Rainsford cannot sleep because he is afraid that general Zaroff is going to kill him that’s what Rainsford was thinking all night. Rainsford didn’t like what he heard from the general about, Zaroff hunting humans instead of animals. Rainsford is scared of general Zaroff because Zaroff is a hunter just like Rainsford but Zaroff is a little smarter and better than Rainsford, still Rainsford comes out on top because Rainsford strategizes better than Zaroff. Rainsford first day on Ship-Trap Island was he fell overboard on his ship and found a person named general Zaroff. Rainsford when he first come upon Ship-Trap Island he was looking for a person because he heard screams and shooting in the distance when he was on his ship with his crew members.

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.

As Rainsford goes to bed each night and wakes up in the woods, he losses sleep and energy and begins to look weak and frail. One day as Rainsford was walking down the road past a family's home and over heard the mother saying' "Oh our dear child, why did he have to die so soon!"

The tension between General Zaroff and Rainsford is intensively increasing every time one has something to say, after the other has finished speaking or some of their actions towards each other that the other character finds suspicious. It all started, when both General Zaroff and Rainsford were having dinner, until General Zaroff mentions “I hunt more dangerous game”. Rainsford’s curiosity grew as they kept on conversating about the General’s hunting a more dangerous animal. General Zaroff made a deal with Rainsford, and for Rainsford’s self concern demand’s the General that he must leave the island “at once”. The two most fierce and powerful hunters in this story are going to battle it out. Rainsford was given many chances to live by General Zaroff, and will later kill Ivan by setting a trap for Zaroff. After Rainsford killed the General it is like as if Rainsford disappeared to a unknown place. The tension that is going on between both characters is happening by their attitude, curiosity, and the questions that they are asking each other. There is a lot of symbolism in the story that help us see where the tension is building up.

The smile on the General’s face widened. To date I have not lost, He said” (Connell, 2012, P.226). This demonstrates why Rainsford feels scared about being on the Island and playing General Zarroff’s game. In the short story it also states “Tonight, said the General, we will hunt- you and I, Rainsford shook his head, ‘No general, he said, I will not hunt” (Connell, 2102, P.228). This explains that Rainsford does not believe that other humans should be hunted and killed. Therefore, this explains why Rainsford is scared about playing General Zarroff’s