Summary Of Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connel

The Most Dangerous Game, a short story by Richard Connel, tells the story of a man named Rainsford from New York who is a big game hunter on a yacht. Rainsford went through multiple conflicts throughout this story. At first, he was traveling to Rio De Janeiro with a man named Whitney, but it did not go as planned. Rainsford meets a man on an island named Zaroff, who is also a hunter. The conflicts held between the two men and how they deal with them greatly advances the story by showing the emotional strain that being a hunter places on a human being. One of the multiple conflicts Rainsford went through was falling off his yacht. When Rainsford fell off his yacht and into the ocean, he was struggling to survive in the ocean. In the short story it states He struggled up the surface and

nature conflict. This conflict helps move the story forward because if he never fell off his yacht and into the ocean, he would not have ended up on Ship Trap Island. This conflict now leads to Rainsford s second conflict. Rainsford ended up on an island and ended up at an unusual palatial. At the door, he then meets two men named Ivan and Zaroff. Zaroff and Rainsford get along at first since Zaroff has read all of the books Rainsford has published about hunting, but then Rainsford gets a weird feeling after they had dinner and Zaroff was carefully observing Rainsford. In the story, Rainsford finds out that Zaroff also hunts men because hunting animals became too easy for Zaroff. Then, the new conflict soon began when Rainsford wanted to leave, but the only way out was to escape Zaroff. In the short story it is stated "He stood there, rubbing his injured shoulder, and Rainsford with fear again gripping his heart, heard the general's mocking laugh ring through the jungle"(8). Meaning, Rainsford attacked Zaroff while trying to escape him since he was hunting him. One more quote from the story states: “One of us is to furnish a buffet for the