Sanger Rainsford In The Most Dangerous Game, By Richard Connell

In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, the protagonist character, Sander Rainsford is an adventurous and fearless big game hunter. Rainsford has no remorse for his prey. Over the course of the story Rainsford experiences a sudden change of heart when he finds himself where “The world is made up of two classes—the hunters and the huntees.”

Rainsford says to Whitney, "the world is made up of two classes- the hunters and the huntees" (Connell 216). Rainsford doesn't realize it but in time he becomes similar to the blood-thirsty man who hunts "the most dangerous game." To understand the content of this essay one must be informed on what kinds of people are involved in The Most Dangerous Game. Sanger Rainsford is a hunter who is travelling to Rio on a yacht. He is travelling with his friend Whitney so that they can both hunt the animals living in the Amazon. Rainsford sees the island that they are passing by and he leans too far over the edge. Once he hears gun shots he decides to swim to the island where he meets General Zaroff. General Zaroff hunts "the most dangerous game" which

In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford is shown as brave, intelligent, and worldly. Rainsford is shown to be brave in the story when he jumps off a cliff. “Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed. Rainsford hesitated. He heard the hounds. Then he leaped far out into the sea.” (Connell 80). This quote shows that Rainsford is brave because, during this part, he is risking

Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" is a very exciting story of a manhunt. This story made me think about the morality of hunting: Humans are the cleverest creatures on earth, but does it give them a license to kill the other animals and even human beings weaker than themselves? I give below a short summary of the story to set the scene and then I will explore the ethics involved in hunting as a sport. "The Most Dangerous Game" presents the story of a hunter, General Zaroff, who finds hunting human beings as the most dangerous and fascinating sport.

“ The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees,” stated Rainsford in the famous short story, The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell. Connell’s story is a fictional story about man hunting man. His piece of literature was made into a movie later on, and in the movie Rainsford made a very similar statement. However, there were changes made between the short story and movie. The similarities and differences become clear in both the plot and resolution. Although the the literary work and motion picture have much in common, they are also quite different.

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.

     Rainsford is certainly a brave character. ‘“Hunting, Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder” (110). Rainsford is composed until he figures out that Zaroff’s new species is human beings. Rainsford has just met this man, doesn’t know where he is or anything about those people but he still puts his foot down. Rainsford knew it was murder, and so did Zaroff, but it was brave for Rainsford to tell him he would not keep a secret of what Zaroff was doing and Rainsford demanded to be taken home immediately. Rainsford was brave to tell Zaroff, straight forward, that he would not participate in his game. ‘“Ivan,” he said to Rainsford, “will supply you with hunting clothes, food, and a knife”’ (170). Rainsford was now in the game and had to participate. His bravery came out when a three day duel was forced against his will.

A man gets hunted by another man on the deserted Ship-Trap Island in the middle of the Caribbean. Rainsford, the protagonist in “The Most Dangerous Game”, a short story written by Richard Connell, gets hunted by General Zaroff. Rainsford abounds with fear, making him crazy. General Zaroff’s arrogance causes him to feel that he possesses the right to hunt the people he captures. His arrogance causes him to commit gruesome things; in this case, murder. Prior to becoming another man’s prey, Rainsford feels that animals have no feelings, but he sympathizes for animals being hunted after he himself becomes prey. His feelings and opinions transform after this experience. “The Most Dangerous Game” consists of three central themes: fear makes an individual crazy, arrogance causes hurtful actions, and some experiences have the potential to alter an individual’s opinion.

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 maintains a sense of civilization on his island.

Have you ever been hunted in your lifetime before ? In “the most dangerous Game “ by Richard connell two men were hunting each other. Rainsford demonstrates that he is adventurous,smart, and sneaky.

Where do you draw the line in hunting? Is it at the point where you feel pity for your prey? Is it the fact your prey feels pain? Or is it just that you’re stronger and they’re weaker so it doesn’t matter. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is a story about learning and experience, how the hunter becomes the hunted and moralities tested and learning the hard way. The main protagonist Rainsford is a well established hunter who has slaughtered many animals with great joy. He views his prey as aggressive creatures that are lower that lack any reason to live other than hunting. Through the story Rainsford ends washed up on a mysterious island where his ideals about hunting are pit against those of an eccentric Cossack General. Through

When many people think of hunting, they often think of searching through forests, jungles, and fields to find certain animals that they will stalk and then kill. However, Rainsford, a character in “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, is forced to try a very different form of this sport invented by a mysterious man he meets on Ship Trap Island. General Zaroff, another character in this short story, traps people on his island and hunts with them by seeing if they can survive three nights and evade his attempts at killing them. Before arriving on this obscure island, Rainsford was already an experienced hunter, already heard of by quite a few people. After falling off his yacht and relying on his instincts to safely make it to

The title of the story is called, “The Most Dangerous Game.” The authors name is Richard Connell. A man named Sanger Rainsfold was on a ship and fell overboard into the sea. He swims to a Caribbean island that he saw. The island was owned by a man named General Zaroff who is a hunter, he admires it so much he plays a game which causes life or death for people who come to his island. Zaroff greets Rainsfold and tells him more about himself and how this game works. Zaroff offers Rainsfold a place to stay and dinner for Rainsfold prepare himself for the most dangerous game. It’s the morning, the game starts and Rainsfold is giving some time to adjust and run away from the General. With the experience that Rainsfold has, he sets up a Malay man

Richard Edward Connell was an American author, who was probably most famous for the short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Connell started writing at the age of 10 covering baseball games for his father 's paper. By the age of sixteen he had become the editor of the Poughkeepsie News-Press. Connell was a very smart man who studied at Georgetown and Harvard.While at Harvard he was the editorial chairman. Connell 's writing style was usually action-adventure. Some of his works were probably inspired from his time working as a homicide journalist, and serving in World War I. By the time Connell passed away he had published over 300 short stories. Richard Connell was a very unique author from experiences he had through out his life, and so was the writing style that he portrayed.