The Most Dangerous Game: A Story of Allusions

“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots,” Rumi states. When reading any type of literature just reading is not enough. Rumi states this looking at a general life, but when connecting it to literature, it is true. Do not just read, try to connect with the characters and look deeper at the settings and weather. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, a hunter named Sanger Rainsford swims to Ship Trap Island “accidentally”. He comes upon another hunter there who is strange. This man is named Captain Zaroff. He is strange for two reasons. One, he believes hunting people is fun, and two he thinks of it as hunting and not murder. As Rainsford figures this out, he wants to escape the island. This is only possible if he can escape Zaroff in three days, which has never happened before. As people read the whole story, pages fly by and words go in and out through their ears. They are not able to understand and dig deeper into this short story. An informative literary analysis, How to Read Literature like a Professor: For Kids by Thomas C. Foster can help. Foster talks about the ways to dig deeper into a book and how to look through a character. In “The Most Dangerous Game” there is not just a plot, but another story, using How to Read Literature: For Kids will help the reader dig deeper into the story, seeing many things they have never seen before.

The theme basically forms the story. “The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure. I am strong. Why should i not use my gift? If i wish to hunt. Why should i not? I hunt the scum of the earth-- sailors from tramp ships- lascars, blacks, Chinese, Whites, Mongrels-a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.” Rainsford had just discovered what the new animal that general Zaroff wants to hunt. Rainsford was telling the general how he’s a hunter, not a murderer. Then the General said exactly what i just previously quoted. The quote is an example of the author using the theme “violence.” Hunting involves killing things(usually animals) but in this case the general’s new “animal” is a human. Hunting/ killing things is considered violence, therefore one of the main themes in the short story is ‘violence’ because there’s violence all throughout the story. I chose this quote to support theme because of all the violence throughout the whole story. Another important and well known theme in the short story is “things aren't always as they appear”. At the beginning of the story, Rainsford was talking to whitney and said “You’re a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how the jaguar feels?” Richard connell later turns the story and makes Rainsford be in the jaguar's position so now he knows how the jaguar feels. Which shows that things aren't always as they seem because to Rainsford it didn't seem like he was gonna end up in the

In order to feel satisfied, humans naturally find an activity to do when they encounter themselves no longer entertained. In the case of “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connell, General Zaroff creates exactly what the titles states, the most dangerous game, a game of hunting the only animal that can reason: humans. This is quite ironic because Zaroff has all the wealth and power to do anything, but creates this game only to escape his boredom. Connell wrote “The Most Dangerous Game” with Rainsford as the main character, a role most typically associated with the archetypal hero. However, with an understanding of the story, readers question whether Rainsford really is the hero, his values of humans and animals, and the possibility of him becoming the villain, provoking readers to realize that the cycle of violence and oppression goes on even if believed to already be conquered.

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the author, Richard Connell, does an outstanding job of portraying the bizarre adventure of an insane, however experienced hunter, General Zaroff. The protagonist, Rainsford, another experienced hunter from New York City, appears on General Zaroff’s island, explores, and eventually encounters with Zaroff. They introduce themselves, settle down, and begin to talk. During the talk with the general, Rainsford soon learns that the General was not only a hunter; but a murderer as well. Zaroff has lured and ceased many sailors to his island to play a game. Although, they did not hunt with the General, the General hunted them! Zaroff claimed that hunting “had become too easy”, therefore, hunting began

Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game is an action-packed and suspenseful short story. This tale is about a man in the early 1920s named Sanger Rainsford who falls off a yacht and gets stuck on an island that holds a bad reputation. He finds shelter in a castle where he is welcomed but then, gets outwitted into being hunted as part of a dangerous game for three days by a Cossack named General Zaroff.

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.

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

In the action packed short story, The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell writes about a lost hunter’s journey. But, through his use of analogies and irony, Connell is able to convey some messages with much deeper meanings. There are two main characters in the short story, Rainsford, the sailor and hunter whose yacht was shipwrecked, and General Zaroff, who owned his own island that he used for “The Hunt”. Throughout the text, Connell uses analogies to justify the General’s morals.

In the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" Rainsford does not apply to the quotation, "Character is what you are in the dark." Dwight Lyman Moody. This quotation is saying that people act different when they are by themselves and that they are acting as themselves not what they think others will enjoy to be around. Rainsford is not like this what so ever, he acts as himself throughout the whole story and shares his own opinions and thoughts. When by himself he seems to act the same also. Rainsford acts the way he wants to act not caring what others think, he is very out spoken. Rainsford doesn't apply to this quote, in fact he is the opposite of this quote.

Hunting can be very fun, until it turns into a dangerous game. The story “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell shows that hunting takes lots of strategy and determination. Rainsford demonstrates that he is intelligent, skillful, and alert.

“The Most Dangerous Game”, a short story by Richard Connell, is about a man named Sanger Rainsford that falls overboard on a ship and ends up on a mysterious island. From there he finds civilization and he meets the thrill-seeking General Zaroff that hunts humans to fix his craving for an adrenaline rush. Overtime, the general insists to compete with Rainsford by hunting each other and in the end he got the best of General Zaroff. Sanger Rainsford is a major character that greatly advanced the plot with his dynamic personality and his meaningful actions. From his intelligence and bravery he is able to conquer General Zaroff and prevent anybody else getting hunted by the evil and inhumane General.

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, the author, Richard Connell, develops two radically different hunters who share a love for the sport, but it is the protagonist, Rainsford, who makes the story interesting because he is a dynamic character who, by the resolution, remarkably changes the story. Unlike Zaroff, who is an immoral character that thinks the idea of hunting humans is alright, Rainsford’s ideal changes keep the reader interested because they are key to making the story much more fascinating, especially by his bravery, never-give-up attitude, and wise decisions. When Rainsford ends up on “Ship-Trap Island” by falling off a yacht, he starts to get to know Zaroff, and he learns that he is not just a typical hunter. Zaroff has become a serial killer. He soon realizes that he has no choice but to play the game with Zaroff.

Hunting is something that hundreds and thousands of people do each day in America. You see people hunting different types of animals such as bears, fish, birds, and many more. But you don't see people hunt humans as your preys. You wouldn’t believe that they hunt humans for fun. In the story “ The Most Dangerous Game” Zaroff and Rainsford both have similarities and differences, which are they both like hunting and they both hunt totally different preys.

A survivor is one who finds their way out situation and with fight until the end. One source was a short story titled “Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Carroll, a story about one man who searching to survive by a man on an island where animals are not hunted but the humans are”. A survivor is someone who is selfish, courageous, and lucky.

In “The Most Dangerous Game,” there are quite a few indicators that establish that the story may be considered pop culture literature. In the first scene the reader is already being told about the dreadful island, Whitney comments to Rainsford that the island is called the “Ship-Trap Island” (Connell). Whitney also comments to Rainsford “Sailors have a curious dread of the place” (Connell). Connell uses the opening scene to set the tone of the story, at this point the reader knows nothing about the characters but only about a daunting island. This is an example of pop culture literature because Connell is focused on the plot structure more than the actual characters of the story.