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The Hunt In The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

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The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is a short story that depicts two hunters hoping to hunt in the Amazon that happen to come across a notorious island known as “Ship-trap” Island. One of the hunters wash up on shore of the Island and is introduced to feeling of being hunted. The author uses this character to show sympathy and compassion towards hunted animals. As I’m reading through this story the author uses the character, Rainsford, to express the value of life. Connell creates this other character named General Zaroff who lives for the thrill of hunting, after losing interest in hunting animals he challenges Rainsford to hide on the island for three days without being caught. This is where the author gives Rainsford the role of a prey instead of a predator. This ties back to when Rainsford and her co-worker Whitney have a conversation of the value of life and Rainsford says,” Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters.”(pg.1) The author shows that Rainsford doesn’t value and respect of a non-human being. Rainsford is now being the huntee instead of the hunter. …show more content…

He only sees them as trophies to hang across his wall. For example on pg. 6 he says, "Hunting tigers ceased to interest me some years ago. I exhausted their possibilities, you see. No thrill left in tigers, no real danger. I live for danger, Mr. Rainsford." The author’s tone is benevolent because he shows he is caring by putting a “predator in a prey’s place.” On page 7 it reads, "I refuse to believe that so modern and civilized a young man as you seem to be harbors romantic ideas about the value of human life…” Pitting Rainsford and General Zaroff against each other in the hunt allows Connell to blur the line between hunter and prey, human and animal, to suggest that instinct and reason are not the

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He’s being hunted by Zaroff and they both like to feel the adrenaline rush. Having been a victim of Zaroff’s sick and wicked game, Rainsford will never hunt again due to the mind games and his mental state by the impact of his treacherous adventure. In the beginning, Rainsford now knows how it feels to be a victim and has played Zaroff’s wicked game. Rainsford starts to realize the problems of the prey that he hunted and what challenges that the prey faced.

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Sanger Rainsford's background as a skilled hunter helped prepare him for the hunt in the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. Before he ended up on Ship-Trap Island, Rainsford and Whiting were on their way to the Amazon to hunt jaguars. This shows that he was already a hunter and a very adept one, because he was going to the Amazon to hunt. The beginning of the story opens when Rainsford and Whiting discussed about their soon-to-be adventures in the Amazon. " 'I hope the jaguar guns have come from Purdey's.

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This changes his perspective of Zaroff and leads him into the position of being the huntees instead of the hunter. Whether you are one hunting or the one being hunted, there is danger. Rainsford develops by becoming the huntees instead of the. Hunter. An example is deciding to hide or attack General Zaroff. Also jumping off the cliff to escape from him.

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These crucial moments display Rainsford a round and dynamic character. The General is a great character description of a static and flat character. In the story the General's beliefs, attitude, and perspective never change. Other than his boredom of traditional hunting that led him to develop his inhuman and unconventional game, he is not fundamentally challenged or influenced. His character influences the protagonist's character, and this is a significant part of the relation of the central idea.

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General Zaroff was one of the best hunters In the world and Rainsford survived all three days so that proves that Rainsford is better then General Zaroff. Richard Connell uses mood/tone in his story “The Most Dangerous Game” to convey the theme of competition rarely enhances a person’ character. Rainsford had to overcome a lot of obstacles to become a better survivalist. One

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When you’re in a tough situation, you should always do what's right even if it creates enemies. “The Most Dangerous Game” Takes place on Ship-trap island the island is man made by General Zaroff the feeling the is dark, dense, and terrifying. A well-known hunter named Rainsford is going to hunt in Rio get kill jaguars. On his way there he fell overboard and ended up swimming to Ship-Trap Island witch Zaroff owned. Zaroff is another hunter but he moved out there because there is more game out there and they put up a better fight.

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In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Rainsford’s attitude towards hunted animals changes as he has first-hand experience in Zaroff’s game of knowing how scared animals are when they are hunted. When Rainsford finds out what Zaroff hunts, he becomes angry that Zaroff sees no difference between fighting wars, and killing helpless humans as he says, “Why should I not be serious? I am speaking of hunting.’ ‘Hunting? Great Guns, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder”(Connell 6).

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The story begins when Rainsford was talking about how he doesn't care about how the preys he hunts feel. “ Who cares how a jaguar feels.” (p.17) This shows us that he is the hunter and his prey is the hunter. He falls from his ship and swims to “ Ship Trap Island’’ where he runs into the owner of the island, General Zaroff.

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In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford’s mindset on hunting changes throughout the story as he begins to understand fear of the hunted. In the beginning of the story, the protagonist Rainsford shows no empathy towards the animals he has slayed, even going as far as saying, “Who cares how a jaguar feels?” (14). Convinced that hunting is the finest sport in the world, Rainsford casually disregards any thought about an animal’s feelings, believing that they are simple-minded creatures unable to understand basic emotion. However, as the story progresses, Rainsford himself becomes one of the hunted, and has the choice to either fight his best to survive the hunt, or to perish like all the others.

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Rainsford must fight for his life for three nights, trying to escape General Zaroff who is trying to kill him. The author shows the readers how Rainsford undergoes a dynamic character change as he shifts from the hunter to the hunted and once again the hunter as the story ends. In the beginning of the short story Rainsford, the hunter, firmly believes there are two different classes: the hunters and the huntees. The reader can infer that Rainsford is a hunter by only reading the first page of the short story.

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Who cares how a jaguar feels? Perhaps a jaguar does,” observed Whitney”(1). This conversation proves that Rainsford denies the statement that quarry have feelings, especially when hunting is his favorite sport. This contributes to the conflict of man vs. man because Rainsford is against Whitney and his point. Another example of Connell using the conflict man vs. man to build suspense is when General Zaroff makes Rainsford his prey and he has to find refuge from Zaroff out in the jungle.

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Another aspect of that is that Richard Connell supported this idea by “The island is perfect for my purposes--there are jungles with a maze of traits in them, hills, swamps--"(171) where he is describing how the layout of the land of him home is like a game with the different obstacles and such. The next theory of dramatic irony in the title is, “Game” in hunting can be referred as the animal one is hunting in this Quote Richard Connell has staited "You've done well, Rainsford," the voice of the general called. "Your Burmese tiger pit has claimed one of my best dogs.” at this point in the story Rainsford has started being hunted and Rainsford being a hunter too he knows of a few tricks and so he tries to trap Zaroff to stop the “Game” but the trap gets one of Zaroff's dogs instead of him so the “Game” that Zaroff is hunting, Rainsford, has started to become dangerous for Zarroff to

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Connell also characterizes Rainsford as an extremely self-centered individual at the beginning of the story. For example, Rainsford only takes into consideration his own enjoyment while hunting and does not show any remorse for killing any of the animals that he has hunted. When Whitney points out that animals must not enjoy being targeted by hunters, Rainsford dismisses this by saying, “Nonsense, laughed Rainsford. This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney. Be a realist.

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However, there is a twist in the story when one of the hunters, Rainsford gets separated from his yacht and ends up on a stranded island. However, on the island, he comes upon a hunter who has a very different and surprising hunting style. Throughout the story, Connell uses parallel plot lines to indirectly provide information and

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Firstly, in the story The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford is justified in killing General Zaroff because on the island the only way to live is if the stranded people hunt or the stranded will in contrast become the ones being hunted. In the beginning of the story Rainsford is talking to Whitney about jaguars. Whitney is stating that the jaguars must feel some sort of feeling like fear or terror but in contrast Rainsford states that the jaguars have no understanding of feelings. Then Rainsford is put on a island where he symbolically represents the jaguar and General Zaroff would symbolically represent the hunter.

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