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Most Dangerous Game Theme Essay

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The adrenaline rush that accompanies a fast paced hunt may be exciting, but perhaps it is not so exciting to be the one on the wrong side of the gun. This is what happened to Rainsford during “The Most Dangerous Game” when he met General Zaroff. Through his judging nature, Rainsford drives the story's theme of walk a mile in somebody else's shoes. In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford is shown as Sneaky, Brave, and Intelligent. Rainsford is shown to be Brave in the story when he Jumped off the Cliff. A quote that shows this is, “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 taking a chance and risking his life by jumping into the ocean. During the …show more content…

The theme of the story is, walk a mile in somebody else’s shoes. Throughout the game, Rainsford has to walk in the shoes of the animals he hunted. He was forced to hide from the hunter, which was the General, just like the animals tried to hide from him when he was hunting them. In addition, Rainsford ran away from the General and had to take risks to escape just like when he hunted the animals. Aswell, At the end of the story, Rainsford says, “I am still a Beast at Bay.”(The Most Dangerous Game) This shows that Rainsford has learned the theme of the story because when he says that he is saying that he is still a trapped animal that has to fight back. This shows that he now knows how it felt to be hunted, and to be trapped and having to fight back and take risks to survive. Before the events that occurred in the story Rainsford had no idea how the animals felt and didn’t care how they felt, but after those events he knew how they felt and thought while being hunted and definitely cared about how they felt because he knew how much it hurt

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Falling under the same umbrella, “The Most Dangerous Game”, Richard Conell described Rainsford’s situation, “The cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror” (Conell 228). This quote explains that Rainsford, as a hunter, is also forced to participate in a life-or-death game where he is the helpless, targeted animal. Despite the main characters’ role, both of these plots are unusual and out of the ordinary; however, these corresponding plots provided a major resemblance between the two

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Hunting is a game where you can have fun killing a certain type of animal, but could be very dangerous at the same time. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford is a character that is a very good hunter. So one day him and his buddy's went out on a yacht and went out on the sea to go to the caribbean to look for this island to hunt Jaguars. But while on a yacht he feel of the boat and fell into the sea. Moving on he was on this Island and met this General.

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Rainsford knew that he was unable to retreat and forced to face danger. Rainsford realized that animals felt and how they had to face the danger just like how he did.

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Luckily, you and I are hunters. ”(Connel, 1). At the beginning, exposition of the story, let it be known about his hunting abilities. When Rainsford fell over the cliff, and swim instead of panicking and risking drowning. Rainsford made smart decisions during the game; always keeping

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This quote accentuates Rainsford’s way of justifying his brutality and actions. In reality, hunting is a sport of violence and immoral activities. Initially, he is portrayed as confident and skilled, but meeting Zaroff causes his beliefs to shift entirely, revealing the newfound

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“Rainsford hesitated. He heard the hounds. Then he leaped far out into the sea…” (235). Again, Rainsford had to reason with himself. When he heard the pounding paws of the pack and the heavy breathing of the general, he knew that he would have to jump.

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“The Most Dangerous Game” Essay In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell A man named Rainsford hears a gunshot and falls off a boat on to which he was traveling upon. Rainsford swims to this island to which he heard the gunshots, once on land he walks around and finds an unusual sight A mansion. When inside the mansion he comes across a man Named General Zaroff whos is a fan of his. Zaroff he hunts humans.

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- ‘Even so, I rather think they understand one thing--fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death. ’”(Connell 18) By reading the theme the reader can infer the position Rainsford is in will drastically change. Although, Rainsford is not overtaken by the jaguar

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Rainford exposes his selfishness and lack of empathy by saying, “‘Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes-the hunters and the huntees. Luckily you and I are hunters’”(2). His actions throughout the story show his cruelty too. Rainsfords profession is killing animals, and while he does

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Rainsford has to start thinking like an animal. After leaving Zaroff an ambiguous path on the first night of the hunt Rainsford says, ”I have played the fox, not I must play cat of the fable” (75). If he is not able to imitate an animal’s innate actions to survive, he may not escape his

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