Rainsford Essay On A Dangerous Game

Metanoia- A journey that changes one's mind, heart, self or way. A man called Rainsford, liked hunting, that was his main sport. But one night, he fell into the ocean and ended up on a island. He never expected that one man, one choice, one game, would change his civilized world into a wild living. Rainsford’s experience of being hunted made him not want to hunt ever again.
Before Rainsford entered the “Dangerous Game,” General Zaroff, the owner of the island, tried to persuade Rainsford to believe that killing humans is not murder. The General was explaining to Rainsford that he had invented a new animal to hunt, an animal that can reason, make hunting last longer and more interesting, humans. Rainsford couldn’t help but to speak; “‘Hunting?

Rainsford disagrees with Zaroff, he thinks that his irrational explanation is not good enough to explain why he’s taking human lives for fun. Minutes later, Zaroff talks about war, he compares it to murder. The General tells Rainsford that he “‘surely [has] experienc[ed]...war,’” but, Rainsford cuts him off, “‘Do not make me condone cold blooded murder,’” (Connell 27). Zaroff tried to be clever, but Rainsford was smart to say that war is accepted because it save lives and murder is to take it away. General Zaroff tried to make Rainsford like him, but he refused to agree and to become like him. The General bet that he could make Rainsford “‘forget [his] notions when [he goes] hunting with” him (Connell 27). Rainsford declined the offer, he “‘thank[ed him and told him that he’s] a hunter, not a murderer’” (Connell 27). General Zaroff thought he

When Rainsford got on the island, he hoped he could survive on the island. When he first arrived, he heard “pistol shots, [that indicated him that] there [were] men [on the island]” (Connell 22). “Where there are men, there is food” (Connell 22). When Rainsford heard the pistol shots, he then went searching for the people on the island so that they could provide him with supplies.When following the clues of where the men could be, he found their place, but he never expected one huge building on the island. Rainsford was “astonish[ed] that all the light were in one enormous building- a lofty structure with pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom” (Connell 22). Therefore, Rainsford doesn’t have to sleep outside and doesn’t have to build a mini shelter. When he entered the building, supplies were already prepared for him. Before he entered the game and killed the general, Zaroff offered him “clothes, food, and rest” (Connell 23). There are supplies and materials already in the house, Rainsford doesn’t have to hunt for food and fur for cloth. Not only does he have clothes and food, but also a nice bed to sleep in. Rainsford decided that “He had never slept in a better bed” (Connell 36). Instead of sleeping on the floor with leaves for a blanket, Rainsford already had a nice bed prepared for him to keep him warm. Since