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Brief Summary: The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

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Dvita Kapadia
Mr. Ringo
English 9B
5 September 2014.
To Tamper With Danger
The story “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell describes the exigency of a man named General Zarroff who is impelled to hunt humans, and how he provokes an innocent hunter, Rainsford to join him in the, ‘Most Dangerous Game’ to hunt one another. The author Richard Connell shows us the insanity of humanity through this short story. When Rainsford first figures out that General Zarroff is hunting human beings, he is in total shock. This shows us Rainsford’s original tangibility towards hunting humans, however these feelings change as the story proceeds and the plot gets thicker. At the end of the story, Rainsford hunts down General Zarroff showing us the drastic change in views from when he was …show more content…

I believe that the message Connell is trying to dispatch is the behavior of one when stuck in a life or death situation. He is trying to show the readers how if one’s life is threatened, they generally choose to forget their values so they can survive, like Rainsford. It is in human nature to do everything possible to stay alive and be afraid enough of death to lose one’s conscience. The author is also illustrating how sometimes horrific crimes appear to lose their danger when they are committed many times by a perpetrator who has a high economic value. General Zarroff because of his wealth had lost his feeling of humanity and the horror of committing a murder multiple times. In my opinion, Connell also wants to convey the fact that all humans want to be challenged by something they love. Humans have the tendency to get disinterested once they are very good at something, like General Zarroff got bored of hunting animals. This is why some perseverant people, like General Zarroff are motivated enough to even sacrifice human life. When Connell mentions that General Zarroff started hunting at the age of ten, he might be warning us of the dangers of doing

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