Rainsford 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.

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 the killing of General Zaroff. Rainsford was an animal hunter on his way to Rio, that fell off his yacht. He swam to Ship-Trap island and he met Ivan and General Zaroff. General Zaroff let Mr. Rainsford stay in his mansion and he provided food and clothing. As Rainsford got to know General Zaroff. he found out General Zaroff trap men on the island to hunt them like they are animals.

More than 100 million animals are reported killed by hunters each year….what if people were killed like this productively each year. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, written by Richard Connell people were killed and it wasn't good. Sanger Rainsford actions demonstrates that he is intelligent, brave and clever throughout the story.

In the short story “ The Most Dangerous Game “, Rainsford was justified in killing General Zaroff. In this short story a man named Rainsford was on a ship with a couple men on a island called Ship-Trap. The ship got in a crash in the couple men died then Rainsford heard 3 gun shots so he knew that he wasn’t the only one on the island. Rainsford swims to shore they had a chateau so , he knocks on the door in that’s how he meet General Zaroff ; Shortly General Zaroff tells Rainsford about the game but Rainsford didn’t want apart of the game. Rainsford don’t hunt humans , he was a animal hunter Zaroff disagreed with Rainsford so it became ; Rainsford being the prey and General Zaroff was the predator.

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 misception that Rainsford would be safe at the cottage, the general and Rainsford share meals together. Rainsford learns that they both share the passion for hunting, except the general’s hunting was on a whole other level. Like any other person, Rainsford would think the general liked to hunt big games such as lions and deers, but the big game for the general was humans. There is not an animal that can reason, according to Rainsford, but then the general implies that there is one, and the horror hits Rainsford in the face. Rainsford tells the bitter truth to the general, “‘Hunting? General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder’” (Connell 34). Rainsford seemed to be shocked and amazed at the fact that the general enjoyed hunting and killing innocent human beings. He also seemed to be amazed about the fact that the general was not yet in jail or not yet caught for his crimes. It seems justifying that Rainsford killed a murderer, before the general tried to hunt anymore people. Even if the general was caught by the police, he would have been executed for the many people he murdered; either he would have died. Rainsford’s activities toward the general, in a sense, is karma and self-defense. The general got punished for what he did wrong. It is seen as self-defense because Rainsford was forced to play the game. In order to put a stop to the general’s absurd hobbies and to save his

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

Rainsford clearly has shown that he is terrified by the General. While Rainsford is hiding in a tree after the General spots him and then leaves Rainsford realizes that “the cossack was the cat, he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror” (Connell 36). Rainsford realizes that the general is the cat and he is the mouse, also that Zaroff is the hunter, and he is the hunted, and for the first time in his life, Rainsford is generally terrified. Rainsford is very scared of the general but also wants to survive, that is why he decides to have revenge, and kill the General. Before Rainsford was being hunted, General Zaroff told him about the game that he played Rainsford decides right at that moment that it is wrong, he realizes this when he declares ‘“did not make me condone cold blooded murder”, finished Rainsford stiffly”’ (Connell 30). Right from the moment the General tells Rainsford that he hunts humans for fun, Rainsford is very freaked out, he wants to leave the island. Rainsford is very opposed to the game he believes it is murder. At this point in the story I believe that he will not enjoy hunting the same way as he did before after he undergoes this experience. While Rainsford is in the jungle, he realizes that the General is a very scary person, the narrator states “Rainsfords second thought was even more

In the movie “The Hunger Games”, the twenty four youth are put in an arena to fight to the death. If you were one of them, would you fight to survive, even if you had to kill someone? In the novel “The most dangerous game” by Richard Connell, this is exactly the situation Rainsford finds himself in, except there is only Rainsford, and a beast of a man with no sense of morality named General Zaroff. There are some who may argue otherwise, however due to the position Rainsford was in, General Zaroff’s persistence and beliefs, and the nature of the game that left only one person alive, Rainsford is not guilty of cold blooded murder. After Rainsford washed up on the island, his life was already in danger.

The main character which is Rainsford is a big-game hunter, Rainsford doesn’t care about his prey. All he wants is to kill and hunt. Now from that point of view, readers can see the little bit of insanity in Rainsford by all that aggressive hunting stuff that he does. Rainsford was on a yacht and fell off of it, he ended up swimming to a rocky shore which was called Ship-Trap Island. This island was all about hunting which basically what Rainsford is, a hunter. Before Rainsford fell from the yacht he was with his friend name Whitney, saw an island which was the Ship- Trap Island, this island was a bad and unlucky place for many thing that happened. As Rainsford and Whitney were passing the island, Rainsford said, “I hold the jaguar guns have come from Prudey’s. We should have some good hunting up the Amazon. Great sport, hunting” (Connell, 1). Throughout the part when Rainsford is on the island he saw the general and his name was Zaroff. Zaroff was those types of general that always wants to win, Zaroff read Rainsford’s hunting book and told him “ I’ve read your book about hunting snow leopards in Tibet, you see”(4). As for Rainsford all he wants is for him winning the game. The only thing that could make Rainsford escape is to hunt and try to win, when actually Zaroff wants him to lose. As days passed by, the insanity of

Rainsford is still totally thrilled by the hunt. He has had so much experience in hunting that his experiences have led him to write a book on hunting. Rainsford is willing to spend time, and apparently large sums of money, to pursue his game. Rainsford sees himself as the strong, and he sees the animal as weak, nonintelligent target of his hobby. Zaroff, though he considers himself strong, sees hunting not just as a hobby, but as a way of life. The General depends heavily on hunting for reason in his world. The thought of not hunting will not register in his mind, nor will he let the thought prevail. Zaroff had hunted so much and had become so skilled in this vocation that this lifestyle was no longer "a sporting proposition." The General could not change his lifestyle now; he had to take matters into hand to preserve his existence.

Rainsford seems more kind than Zaroff and would not kill humans for pleasure. Rainsford thinks that the world is made up of two groups, the hunters and the hunted. He does not care about how the hunted feel until he becomes the hunted. But as he realizes what it feels like to be the hunted his perspective changes. He ends up becoming a better person because of this experience. After being the hunted, he takes more though into agreeing with what Whitney said in the beginning which was that animals may actually have feelings.

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.

After the General allows small glimpses into his psyche, the fact that he is a disturbed person is temporarily forgotten about as the battle between him and Rainsford begins. In “Hunters in the Snow”, the situation with the shooting occurs early on, but the main focus of the story then transfers to the characters' and their issues for the remainder of the story. Rainsford is the typical hero: He is clever and moral, as opposed to Zaroff who is immoral. Though he claims to be "a beast at bay," Rainsford has now fully reverted to hunter mode, swimming across a small bay to Zaroff's chateau to arrive there before the general can make it back through the jungle.… out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows”. Rainsford claims that no animal can reason and when he realizes what Zaroff is doing, he calls it cold-blooded murder. Zaroff retreats to the chateau, assuming he has won the game. The General explains, "hunting was beginning to bore him," and reveals that he had to invent a new animal to hunt, one that must have "courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason. Rainsford survives, winning the game. A story, which relies on action, coincidence and surprise, is precisely the motivation that Connell needs to create a memorable commercial fiction. Rainsford is given the impression that General Zaroff is a wealthy and prominent hunter. "