The Most Dangerous Game Literary Analysis

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“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a short story that starts with an ordinary hunter but turns into the main character being hunted by a mad man. A man and a hunter are having a conversation about the hunters past. He explains the thrill he used to have in hunting dangerous animals and how those hunts ended up being unthrilling and to easy to accomplish for him. So, the hunter decides to hunt a more difficult game… humans. The story begins to take a turn when a bet is made and the man begins running away from the hunter and setting many meticulous traps for the hunter. The man ends up defeating the hunter, he had outsmarted the smartest hunter. The hunter ,or the general as he is called in the story, is not amused by the normal