Rainsford's Hunting

that Rainsford killed Zaroff for the greater good. Without Rainsford’s perseverance, intelligence, and background knowledge, he would not have stood a chance against Zaroff’s booby-trapped island, guards, dogs, and Zaroff himself. Rainsford proves that although you may have to go against your own beliefs, you will survive if you possess the characteristics previously mentioned. Due to Rainsford’s extensive background knowledge in hunting, his resourcefulness, and his ability to adapt to his surroundings

invincible opponent. While illustrating Rainsford’s feelings, Connell describes the characteristics of various personalities such as Whitney, Rainsford’s hunting friend, and General Zaroff, the antagonist. The remainder of this essay will outline the differences between the characters Connell introduces in a short story, Whitney’s and Rainsford’s hunting views show their differences in personalities. Rainsford believes that animals do not have feelings when men are hunting, while Whitney thinks they understand

swam to an island. Rainsford spots a house on top of a cliff, when he talks to General Zaroff (the landlord), he talks about a particular type of game unlike any other, “ ‘Oh,’ said the general, ‘it supplies me with the most exciting hunting in the world. No other hunting compares with it for an instant. Every day I hunt, and I never grow bored now, for I have a quarry with which I can match my wits.’ ” (Page 7). Rainsford rapidly put the pieces together, with the multiple clues given, like how the

start to try and win for themselves. They will find themselves at the bottom if they do not change for the better. This quote pertains to ¨The Most Dangerous Game¨(Connell). Rainsford and General Zaroff go head to head in a game that could end Rainsford's life. With his life at stake, he is bound to do anything and everything he can to survive, which will bring change. The choices Rainsford makes can protect him if he accepts the inevitable change. Rainsford and General Zaroff

Hunting-it is a dangerous sport. Many people around the world participate in this game, but what is the most dangerous on a rich, murderous Russian’s island. There he finds that he is going to be hunted and killed next by General Zaroff. Rainsford’s survival depends on his past experiences as a soldier and hunter, predate and catch. Rainsford lives in the jungle because of his braveness (Topic Sentence). When Rainsford was brave and help others into the jungle, he says, ‘‘he was like a nerve and

of Fabricio’s bets mans, and 5 of Rainsford’s best mans. The crowd was shocked by this but at the same time they were impatient to see what was going to happen. “I will give you a day to think about it Rainsford and if you don’t have an answer by then, that means that you are a coward and you decided to leave.” “I don’t need a day” said Rainsford firmly “I will compete again you, but if I win this competition, you will have to close your company and make hunting illegal.” The both agreed and they

story Rainsford and Zaroff are two hunters. Both characters are good big game hunters. As the story advances Rainsford is forced to run for his life or be killed. However, he tries to slow down the game by setting traps for the hunter. Rainsford's form of hunting is much different

Hunting big game animals for sport was a popular pastime with the wealthy classes following World War I. The morality of killing for sport was not questioned in reality, but in this short story the author does question it by taking it a step further and having the protagonist, Sangor Rainsford, hunted by the antagonist, General Zaroff.In a short story full of irony, one of the greatest ironies of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” is that General Zaroff repeatedly tells Rainsford that he

When one is hunting, do they ever stop to think about how it feels to be the prey? In Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, the character Rainsford has a change of opinion and feelings to this very question. In the beginning of the story, Rainsford is on a ship with a colleague and expresses that he is only concerned about the feelings of himself as the hunter and not those of the “huntee”. Not long after falling off the ship and arriving to a nearby island is it that Rainsford

experienced another side of hunting, where he was the prey and Zaroff was the predator. Rainsford ended up on the uninhabited island, and hunter inside told him to search for people, or a safe place. It led him in the jungle where he found his savior, general Zaroff, who by a coincidence was a hunter as well. One thing he didn’t know was that the help provided was going to be used against him; Rainsford quickly changed his mind about Zaroff’s place being safe when general offered hunting: “Tonight...we will