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Rainsford In The Most Dangerous Game, By Richard Connell

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In “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell. Rainsford was a hunter that fell off a yacht in the Caribbean sea, and swam to an island named Ship-trap, Sanger Rainsford had to figure out how to outsmart Zaroff. The Author states three topics from the hunt starting by climbing up a tree, then seating a trap and hurting Zaroff, Lastly jumping off the cliff and swimming to General Zaroff’s home. Rainsford demonstrated how he is a quick thinker written several times throughout the story. The author states that Rainsford climbed up a tree, and acted like a cat. When he climbed up the tree and held his breath and didn’t move a muscle. Rainsford knew that General Zaroff didn’t want to find him because he was up in the tree and “ Zaroff sharp eyes inch up the tree but stopped before he got to him and turn around and back to the house.” Rainsford tried to lead Zaroff in the wrong direction by going a more difficult way but it did not work. Rainsford is a very smart man. He has set traps, and has used his hunting skills to better himself and keep himself alive.(Connell, 25) …show more content…

Rainsford took his knife and was working on his masterpiece, when he was finished he had no time to waste the beast was coming. “Rainsford had built a Malay mancatcher. Unluckily for him General Zaroff has seen one before because he has hunted in Malacca.” Rainsford trap didn’t work as well as he wanted to but it still hit and insured General Zaroff’s shoulder. General Zaroff said “I’m going now to have my wound dressed, it is only a slight one, but I shall be back.” (Connell, 26) The author states that Rainsford is very intelligent. He uses his hunting experiences to try and outsmart Zaroff and uses his knowledge to figure out what to

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Rainsford is Alert. He demonstrated this in the beginning of the game when he first went into the forest, he tried to put as much distance between himself and the general as possible so it would be harder for Zaroff to find and kill him. “His first whole idea was to put as much distance between himself and General Zaroff (p.26)” Secondly Rainsford is intelligent because he had made various footprints going in multiple different directions,

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Four days ago, on the island referred to by sailors as “Ship-trap Island,” a man became motivated to play a game. That man was Sanger Rainsford. He had to evade the great hunter and trapper known as General Zaroff. Following the events on the island, Rainsford was the only player left alive. Having only the clothes on his back, food, and a knife, surviving would be incredibly difficult for Mr. Rainsford.

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In the short story The Most Dangerous Game, the author Richard Connell shows that Rainsford needs control of his emotions, patience , and expert hunting and decision making skills in order to defeat Zaroff. Rainsford needs to gain control of his emotions to outthink Zaroff, who symbolizes Rainsfords "steep hill". When he finds that he is going to be hunted his natural instinct is to run and panic, but then he stops to look around and get a grip on the task at hand. Then at a critical moment when Zaroff finds him in a tree, Rainsford panics again because he realizes Zaroff is on his trail and is toying with him. Once again, he gains control of his emotions and formulates a plan.

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Rainsford held his breath. The Generals eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree, Rainsford froze there, very muscle tensed for a spring. But sharp eye of the hunter stopped before they reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread over his brown face. Very deliberately he blew a smoke into the air; then he turned his back on the tree and walked carelessly away, along the trail he had come.” This evidence from the story clearly shows that Zaroff knew that Rainsford was there, but he left him alive to continue his hunt.

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  Rainsford used his intelligence to out think Zaroff. If it weren't for his knowledge and strength, Rainsford would have failed immediately. Rainsford used many different techniques to survive a dangerous game. He was willing took succesd. Rainsford is what you call outgoing when it comes down to competition.

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Rainsford comes up with clever ways to get away from zaroff. One example of how rainsford shows cleverness is in the story “ The Most Dangerous Game” when the author writes “‘ Throwing off his sack of food, Rainsford took his knife from his sheath and began to work with all his energy’” (Connell 323) This quote proves Rainsford is a nice person, but if he is in danger he can come up with some clever ideas to keep himself safe’”

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When Rainsford used various traps to outwit General Zaroff in “The Most Dangerous Game” he was using his prior knowledge to outwit Zaroff . General Zaroff was so focused on hunting Rainsford, he triggered the trap Rainsford set: “So intent was the cossack on stalking that he saw it. His foot touched the protruding bough that was the trigger... the cut living tree, crashed down and struck the general a glancing blow on the shoulder as it fell... He staggered but did not fall”(Homer 54).

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Feeling some what angry and nervous Rainsford becomes very apprehensive with the initial actions and persona of General Zaroff. Feeling as such might be due to how he can see how wealthy General Zaroff is and how he is able to do whatever it is he pleases. Being that the only problem with him

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On page 29, paragraph 8, he claimed that he had the invented new things, but Rainsford finds out that they were animals. General Zaroff wanted Rainsford to “hunt” with him but when Rainsford denied he became one of the animals himself. But General Zaroff determined his fate whenever he noticed him in a tree but didn't kill him. On page 36, paragraph , It states, “The general’s eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the

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What started as a thrilling new adventure for American trapper and hunter Sanger Rainsford quickly became a nightmare. On Friday April 15th, 2016, Rainsford traveled to Ship-Trap Island, a small spit of land off the coast of the Caribbean, along with family friend Whitney Johnson with the intention of mounting a hunting expedition in the Amazon. After going up onto the afterdeck and hearing a gunshot, he ran to the railing to see what was all the commotion. He had climbed onto the railing to get a better view and quickly lost his balance, subsequently being thrown into the bitterly cold waters.

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Also, General Zaroff is an extreme hunter and doesn’t find pleasure in hunting regular animals. Zaroff says the most dangerous game is humans because they have the ability to reason. Rainsford is going to be hunted and is given a certain amount of time to survive. Moreover, while Rainsford is being hunted Zaroff

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His animal like behavior and the prediction of his opponent's movements as he intricately evaded General Zaroff is a manifestation of his proficiency at the activity during his second night in the forest. Rainsford doubles back several times to make a complicated trail to follow for General Zaroff, “He executed a series of intricate loops; he doubled on his trail again and again, recalling all the lore of the fox hunt, and all the dodges of the fox” (Connell 53). These maneuvers, showing his experience hunting, more over his expertise of the movements of animals as well as the tendencies of a

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Rainsford mostly uses traps to slow Zaroff down his first trap injures Zaroff forcing him to retreat and bringing one of his dogs. (E) After setting up another trap and hearing it work relief follows thinking that he had won but then out of the blue " well done, Rainsford," the voice of the general called. "your Burmese tiger pit has claimed one of my best dogs. Again you score. I think, Mr. Rainsford, I'll see what you can do against my whole pack.

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Here in the story General Zaroff is injured by a trap that Rainsfords set. “But he was not quick enough, the dead tree crashed down and struck the general.(232) This quote shows Irony when in the start of the hunt General Zaroff thought that this was going to be an easy kill and he could continue on. Throughout the story Zaroff and Rainsford both exert arrogance.

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