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Rainsford's 'Guilty In The Most Dangerous Game'

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“The Most Dangerous Game” is a story that gets you thinking whether or not to kill or be killed, or as Rainsford says, “The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees.” That's not all though,“The Most Dangerous Game” has another question that gets you thinking, is Sanger Rainsford guilty, or not guilty? But in the end all evidence points that he is guilty of murder. For he wanted to get off the island, his view on things changed, and in the end when Rainsford was sleeping in the bed.

One of the first pieces of evidence that makes Rainsford guilty was that he wanted to get off the island. When the general started to talk about hunting people during dinner Rainsford didn’t like it and didn’t want anything to do with the …show more content…

At first he didn’t want to play the game, “Thank you, i’m a hunter, not a murder”, but in the end he did try. An example was that he tried to set the traps for the general. Rainsford dug a hole with sharpened stakes in the bottom that was intended for the general to fall in, “ He knew his pursuer was coming;.... Then he felt an impulse to cry aloud with joy, for he heard the sharp crackle of the breaking branches as the cover of the pit gave way; he heard the sharp scream of pain as the pointed stakes found their mark.” Rainsford also made another trap that could have killed the general, but which instead killed Ivan. “General Zaroff was still on his feet. But Ivan was not. The knife, driven by the recoil of the springing tree, had not wholly failed.” Another example is was that Rainsford decided to go back to the house instead of taking the chance to leave the island after escaping from the general which was what he wanted in the first place.

Lastly, in the end it was mentioned that Rainsford was sleeping in the bed that was for the one who didn’t end up with the dogs. “One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed.” Rainsford would have had to kill the general if he wanted to survive. “He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.” Rainsford couldn’t have slept in the bed if the general was still alive, so Rainsford killed the

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