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Rainsford's Survival In The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

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On an island that will put strength and sanity to the test, self preservation is the only thought you have to survive even if it means forgetting your morals. In the short story ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ by Richard Connell, self preservation is the only thing on Rainsfords mind as he fights to survive. Fear and peril push everything you have to the limit, physically and mentally it can destroy even the strongest of men and lead them to do drastic things including killing. Rainsford must survive being hunted like an animal, but his morals and sanity stop him from becoming what he hates, he needs to overcome his morals in order to survive and go from hunter to hunted. Rainsford in the story must choose whether he is going to fight and survive or give up and die. His first thought is to get as far away as he can, ‘His first idea was to put as distance between himself and General Zaroff.’ But as he calms down and starts thinking rationally, he realizes he needs to try to survive and outsmart Zaroff and play along with his game. As the days go by he starts losing his morals and tries to kill Zaroff, first by dropping a log on him, ‘The dead tree, delicately adjusted to rest on the cut living one crashed down and struck the general.’ Rainsford has started losing his morals and getting more in touch with his beast. …show more content…

Rainsford has killed before in war but states, ‘In times of war it is different’. He wants no part in the killing and cannot accept needing to. He only decides he needs to kill when he realizes that the only way to get away he needs to kill or be killed

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Rainsford sets several traps as he is chased harming Zaroff or one of Zaroffs’s men/dogs. He is finally pined and jumps into the ocean from a cliff. Zaroff thinking he has won heads home but Rainsford beats him there confronting him. Zaroff challenges Rainsford saying whoever wins gets

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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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The short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell has two main characters that exhibit distinct traits throughout the story. The protagonist, Rainsford, expresses aloofness, fearlessness, and experience. The story’s ironic plot twist has a small effect on Rainsford’s ways. During the rising action Rainsford experiences becoming the prey and shows fearlessness. He uses his experience to survive being the prey, but continues to express aloofness.

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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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My dear fellow, said the general, have I not told you I always mean what say about hunting? This is really an inspiration. I drink to a foeman worthy of my steel--at last" (Connell). So since Rainsford refuses to hunt humans the general decides to hunt him. The general thinks it's a great idea because they’re both hunters and both very skilled, so the general thinks it's a great idea while Rainsford thinks it's a horrible idea.

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Everyone has to overcome adversity in their life. In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” the main character, Rainsford, fell of his boat at night time On the Island, Rainsford finds a home where General Zaroff lives. The problem is that the only way he can leave the island is if he survives a “game”. Where General Zaroff is hunting him. So Rainsford has to survive for three days.

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Rainsford does anything to get away from General Zaroff. In the story :” The Most Dangerous Game” the author says “ then he leaped far out into the sea. . . .” (connell 235) This quote basically means he jumped into the ocean just to get away from Zaroff. This proves Rainsford will do anything to get away from General Zaroff.

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All he was set out to do was hunt jaguars, but that all went down the drain after meeting his hunting guide Zaroff; listening to what they were actually going to be hunting change everything. A battle for survival strikes Rainsford suddenly. As a result, Rainsford is forced to go out of his comfort zone to win a battle he never thought he 'd be in. While playing this dangerous game Rainsford demonstrates that he 's smart, serious, and he also shows perseverance throughout the story. For a duration of the story, Rainsford displayed smartness by creating a variety of plans to secure a win for the game he was playing.

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For Rainsford, killing Zaroff could have been just to win “The Most Dangerous Game” or for survival because General Zaroff would have definitely killed Rainsford if he saw him again. Was Rainsford’s murder justified?

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Heroes come in many shapes and sizes, but what really makes a hero a hero? In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connel, our course hero was introduced. He showed several characteristics of a hero, but some may argue he could also be a villain.

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“The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, is a story about Sanger Rainsford, a big game hunter, on his way to the Amazon who accidentally falls overboard of the side of the yacht and ends up on Ship-Trap Island. He soon finds a house belonging to General Zaroff and his servant Ivan. Rainsford learns that Zaroff is hunting humans. Zaroff tries to convince Sanger to hunt with him, but he declines in outrage. The General is furious and decides to make Rainsford play the game.

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As he comes ashore he crosses paths with General Zaroff, a bored hunter who wants a challenge. Rainsford is then forced into the wild so Zaroff can hunt him, and the odds are heavily against Rainsford. Therefore he organizes multiple traps and obstacles for Zaroff to, unfortunately, come across. But Zaroff was on guard and managed to escape the traps. Therefore Rainsford had to outsmart Zaroff, which he had done by escaping out of Zaroff's slight back to Zaroff’s mansion, were the two fought and Rainsford ended up incredibly comfortable.

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We can infer that while on the yacht, feeding a human being to animals would never have occurred to him, and if it had, that he would have treated it like “grisly...cold-blooded murder.” Revenge also did not seem to be an important aspect to him before becoming the subject of Zaroff's dangerous game, but when he returns and encounters Zaroff in his bedroom, he soon resumes the hunt, this time with Zaroff as the prey. Rainsford compromises his own morals by continuing the game, and he even seems to enjoy killing his new human prey, resting comfortably in Zaroff's “very excellent” bed after killing the general and feeding him to the hounds. Thus, the reader realizes that perhaps Rainsford may have decided that hunting humans is not so “barbaric” after

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He had to fight himself to stay on track. He was so scared in the jungle while the General was trying to hunt him. On page 186, it says “He could not say where he was. That was suicide.” This shows the reader that Rainsford may be thinking of what could go wrong, and is not thinking on the positive side of things.

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