The Most Dangerous Game Short Story

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.

Some stories do not have many different conflicts in the story. For example, in “Little Red Riding Hood” there is only one conflict which is Man vs Wolf or Man vs Man, but in some stories like “The Most Dangerous Game” there are all three conflicts throughout the book. Having more conflicts gives the story a bigger theme of suspense. In “Little Red Riding Hood”, the only conflict is getting to her grandma’s house where in “The Most Dangerous Game” there are many different conflicts that give the story more suspense and make it more interesting. Furthermore, there are many examples of conflicts in the short story.

How would it feel to suddenly go from being the hunter to becoming the prey? That is exactly what happened to Rainsford, one of the main characters in The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. Rainsford was a big game hunter who accidentally fell of of his yacht. He swam to a nearby island, and there he met General Zaroff, a cruel man who hunts humans for sport. In exchange for release from the island, Rainsford agrees to be hunted by Zaroff. Consequently, Rainsford is a survivor because he kills Zaroff and wins the game. Rainsford is also a survivor because he demonstrates the qualities that a person must have to be considered a survivor. Although Rainsford is a survivor, Zaroff is not. To be considered a survivor, a person must go through a traumatic or life-threatening experience but still demonstrate resilience and determination.

I will be comparing the video verion of The Most Dangerous Game to the story.

Rainsford appears to be an extremely strong person, but surprisingly he struggles as he kicks and splashes through the surging water. The setting of this story is on a jungle island so for even the toughest of men it would be a struggle to get off the island without putting up a fight with more than just general Zaroff. For Rainsford, this obstacle is the roaring waves at sea. Towards the end of the story Rainsford can be caught at the edge of a cliff. With the general quickly approaching his only option is to throw himself into the ocean thus which “For a seemingly endless time, he fought the sea”(13). Rainsford is fighting the ocean as he struggles towards shore and safety as

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is a short story that involves homicide which raises conflicting questions about life. Roland Barthes says that, “Literature is the question minus the answer.” This somewhat pertains to this story as Connell proposes if humanity is relevant to life and only partially answers it as well as leaving the rest to the mind. This question creates wonder as to what is humanly right or wrong throughout the fiction.

Throughout “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford is continuously being hunted by General Zaroff, which is one example of man vs man. Rainsford is feeling a lot of fear and he realizes that animals actually do feel fear. “He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided”(14). Rainsford was running away from General Zaroff, but when he was running

Most people wouldn't assume that smoking a cigarette could leave someone stranded on an island but unfortunately it was just that that lead to Rainsford's life being in a severe amount of danger on his own with no one to blame but himself. This all takes place in a story written by Richard Connell called, The Most Dangerous Game in which the main character Rainsford wounds up stranded on an island where he is forced to fight over the course of three days in the most dangerous game. In the film High Noon written by Carl Foreman the main character and towns marshall Will Kane is put to the test when his long time rival Frank Miller returns back to town in hopes of getting long lasting revenge on him. Unfortunately all that small town Hadleyvilles

One theme embedded in “The Most Dangerous Game” is that all living things have feelings to survive. I know that this is an actual thing that is true with everyone, you see people survive from the things that you think are impossible there are people that get shot and drive themselves to hospitals. Animals that run when they are in danger, animals that fight for their lives either when forced to for crude human entertainment that is sicking, or when fighting or when fighting to protect their family. For example bears fight when they feel in danger they stand tall to make themselves seem bigger than who they are facing rather it be a human or another bear, they fight to protect their families the people that they love. You hear these amazing stories about dogs running into burning homes and save their owners, but yet people still think that animals have no ability to feel human feelings or the ability to survive. Another example for a dog is keeping the owners safe. When dogs bark at the ring of a doorbell or a knock at the door people usually just tell them to stop and be quiet, People don’t realize what they are actually doing from the dog barking he/she is letting you know that someone is at the door so that way you

The island and overall Zaroff’s house all kinda look too good to be true and with a bad feeling in the air. Rainsford falls off a boat and swimming to the nearest island he meets its only inhabitants Zaroff and his with fear, then Zaroff puts him in a brief period of comfort before he is told that Zaroff hunts humans, as animals are no longer fun to hunt. Zaroff, when Rainsford asks to leave says he can only leave if in the jungle part of the island he can survive three days while Zaroff is hunting

Conflict. It is what we all deal with everyday. Problems, dilemmas, discords, it all seems like there is more problems than we can solve. In a short novel called “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, a man named Sanger Rainsford is left facing a bombardment of conflicts as he is accidentally stranded on an island, occupied by a mysterious man named General Zaroff. Rainsford is compelled to survive three days on the island as he is forced to play Zaroff’s game. Richard Connell uses many ways to arouse conflicts in “The Most Dangerous Game.” The use of conflicts in stories create suspense, creates the plot, and allows the characters to develop as the story goes on.

Person vs nature, one of the easiest conflicts to look for in a story, this conflict is exhibited in the story when the rope knocks Rainsford's pipe out of his hand causing him to fall off the yacht that he is on. This is showing that nature wasn’t on his side when the wind caused the rope to knock his pipe out of his hand. This conflict is also shown by him having to survive in a jungle for 3 days when a hunter is after

Conflicts are formed by driven differences between characters,your surroundings against you, and past life experiences. Having conflicts in a story expressed through characters makes stories more fascinating because they see the world, and life, through a different eye. This shows how characters react to everything: events, situations, crises and relationships. The mastermind behind,” The most dangerous game” ;Richard Connell tries to convey a deeper message using conflicts to build suspense between characters, nature, and one's mind within a person.

Is it possible to be both savage and civilized? One can compare the image on the Smithsonian’s article, “Return of the Great American Jaguar”, with American author Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, to determine the connection between these seemingly opposite characteristics. The image depicts the combination of man and beast, which symbolizes Connell’s complex characters, Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff, who work to display Connell's point of view that men are capable of being both civilized and savage. The short story challenges the protagonist Sanger Rainsford’s morals and beliefs when he is presented with a unique experience of being the huntee not the hunter.

Rainsford knew he was going a little crazy. He just didn't want to believe it. What made him do was never intended, he never wanted to kill a man he was forced to.