A big game hunter, Rainsford, is going to the Amazon by a yacht with his friend Whitney. He hears an unusual sound off in the distance. He goes towards the edge of the yacht to see if he can see anything. He then falls overboard and has to swim to shore, only then to find out he is trapped on an island. He follows footprints through the jungle and eventually finds a large house that he decides to approach and knock on the door. Inside of the house is a man named General Zaroff and Ivan. He, at first, seems like the perfect host. As General Zaroff and Rainsford started talking, Rainsford discovers General Zaroff is very passionate about hunting big game. General Zaroff explains that he has hunted everywhere and almost any animal you could imagine.
In the short story, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, the author is commenting on war in a way in which people will change and be violent to protect themselves and others, even though they understand the pain of being hunted. Rainsford, a boy who washed up on the shore of the forbidden island, was hunted by General Zaroff, a general who got disinterested in hunting animals, so he created a new game in which hunted people instead. Unfortunately, Rainsford’s arrival provided General Zaroff with new prey. Rainsford understood what it was like to be hunted by General Zaroff, but in the end, he still hunted and killed Zaroff for his own, and others to later be trapped on the island’s survival. In war, soldiers attack one another to survive
I am speaking of hunting.” “Hunting? General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder.”” (Connell, 8) Going back to the beginning of the story, Rainsford had opined on animals not having any feels and hunting just was a sport; Rainsford noticing Zaroff was killing people for the enjoyment of his will.
Such a terrifying experience as that depicted in the short story ¨The Most Dangerous Game¨, Richard Connell, could never be imagined by the usual person. Sanger Rainsford struggles ashore an island known as ship trap island after falling off of his yacht. On the island he meets the sole inhabitants of the island, General Zaroff, the protagonist, Zaroff soon tells Rainsford about his hunting of human beings and how he is going to hunt him. They go on their hunt and the hunt ends with Rainsford killing Zaroff. Connell achieves the major theme, hunt or be hunted, through the use of three literary elements: imagery, suspense, and foreshadowing.
Rainsford swims to the island after falling off the yacht. He arrives at a small island called "Ship-Trap Island.”. On the mysterious Caribbean island, he finds a house owned by a hunter named Zaroff. Rainsford and Zaroff are both hunters but Zaroff is a world famous hunter. However, Zaroff hunts a different animal which can fight back “humans”.
Count Zaroff is a calculating killer, not only of animals, but people as well. On the first pages, when he and Rainsford were eating dinner, Zaroff is watching Rainsford eat in this new habitat Zaroff has put him in. Zaroff asks rainsford “perhaps you were surprised I recognized you... I have read all books on hunting in English, French and Russian” (Connell 45). When Rainsford goes up to his room, there are pajamas and new clothes already out for him in his exact size.
Zaroff went on about how much he hunts, but he got bored with regular hunting, so he created a new game with a animal with more reason--humans. Zaroff challenges him, a 3 day game where Rainsford has to get hunted by him, or torchered by Zaroff's servant, Ivan. In the end, Rainsford wins the game, then
In order to do the type of ‘hunting’ he does, General Zaroff resorts to an island secluded from humanity. Zaroff describes this ‘animal’ to Rainsford as the biggest game and even says it is more dangerous than the cape buffalo and the tiger. This ‘animal’
In the Dining hall there are many heads and trophies of his previous hunts. Zaroff gives Rainsford clues on what kind of animal he now hunts. Rainsford slowly figured it out and starts to Vex. Zarroff does not understand why he is vexing, but ensure he will be even more angry as the hunting
General Zaroff pretends to be a civilized person just living on a deserted island, but in reality, he is a cold-blooded murder. General Zaroff tricks Rainsford into a false sense of security only to throw him into the jungle and force him to participate in his disgusting game of hunting humans for amusement. Rainsford has to stay alive for three days in order to live, and he has to fight for his life during the hunt. In the end Rainsford is able to win, and by doing so gains knowledge that changes him. Rainsford is a dynamic character because he changes from being apathetic towards hunting animals, to empathetic towards hunting animals.
In the story General Zaroff says,”Some he makes kings, some beggars. Me, He made a hunter” (Connell Pg. 223). This quote shows that General Zaroff is definitely a hunter, he has been a hunter for his whole life. Also in the story it shows that Rainsford is a major and famous hunter. General Zaroff mentions how he read Rainsfords books on hunting the Snow Leopard.
Great Guns, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder” (pg.9). General Zaroff still believe that human are for hunting. After Rainsford survive the game, General was in shock that Rainsford won the game but they both decided that one of them will sleep peaceful. “One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed.
General Zaroff is different, to say the least, in Richard Connell’s book, “The Most Dangerous Game.” Rainsford is stranded on a deserted island, or so he thinks. Rainsford comes upon a mansion that is owned by General Zaroff. He knows of Rainsford, who is a renowned author of a book about the hunt, as well as everything and everywhere Rainsford has hunted. General Zaroff is also a hunter, but he goes to the extreme.
When Rainsford asks if Zaroff hunts cape buffalo, Zaroff states “ ‘[No,] I hunt more dangerous game’ (17)”. This foreshadows him revealing that he hunts men. This builds suspense because the reader doesn’t know yet what this “dangerous game” is, but they know it probably isn’t good. The author utilizes
General Zaroff says, “ you see, I read all books on hunting published in English, French, and Russian. I have but one passion in my life, Mr. Rainsford, and that is the hunt.” (pg) General Zaroff’s point is that he has devoted most of his life to hunting by reading and having such a strong passion. Essentially, General Zaroff is insanely passionate about hunting therefore he works very hard to be the best of the best.
‘Thank you, I 'm a hunter, not a murderer’” (Connell 10). After Zaroff tells Rainsford he hunts humans, Rainsford is polite and uses eloquent speech to declare his opinion on Zaroff’s game. Rainsford is wealthy, he travels the world, owns a yacht, and smokes briers. “‘I 'm going to smoke another pipe up on the afterdeck ’”