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Postcolonialism Of The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

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The Analysis of Postcolonialism Of the main character in the Short Story of the Most Dangerous Game Introduction “The most dangerous game” is a short story written by Richard Connell and first published on January 19th 1924. This story illustrates a hunter whose name is Sanger Rainsford. He plans to hunt jaguar but his journey takes him in the dangerous game designed by Zarroff. This short story is fully appreciated in South America and Africa since the big game-hunting safaris became trendy in the 1920s. Many postcolonial theorists believe white settler culutures shoud be included under the rubric postcolonial. This idea can be found in this story as stated “the world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and …show more content…

they sets off for South America to hunt the jaguar. They talks about a large island whose name is Ship-Trap Island and its rumours. The conversation continues until all the viewpoints of hunting. Rainsford seems unconcern about the life and feelings of his prey. After their dialog, Whitnely decides to sleep while Rainsford is going to smoke another pipe up on the afterdeck. Then, he hears the sound of shots at a time. He accidentaly falls off a yatch when he want to investigate it. Rainsford tries to cry for help but there is no answer. He struggles desperately to get to the shore. Shortly aftterwards he falls into a sleep because of tired. The next day, he determines to explore the island. He arrives at a palatial chateau. He meets General Zaroff and his assistant, Ivan. General Zaroff welcomes him with open arms. General Zaroff explains that he is passionately interested in hunting. General Zaroff has found a new kind of prey to hunt which is human. General Zarroff tells that he offers strangers a choice; they are hunted in three days or they are murdered by Ivan sadisticaly. He promises to set them free if they survive through the next day. This offer is also for

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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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I have read the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. In this story, Rainsford, a faimed author and hunter, falls off his ship and winds up on an island where he meets a man. This man turns out to be a former Russian General, General Zarroff. General Zarroff , it just so happens, is a hunter in his own but of a different nature. To escape the island he must outwit his host in the General’s own game of hunting.

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He does not agree to keep quiet about what he has been told and things he has seen on Ship Trap Island (Connell 37). What happens on the island is wrong. General Zaroff, the owner of the island does not have the same beliefs as Rainsford. At that moment, he clearly tells General Zaroff that hunting men is not okay (Connell 35). No matter how boring hunting animals is, it is not okay to kill humans for a

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The way they act in urgent situation, proves that they have different personalities and points of view. Rainsford gets on the island, escaping from the danger - swimming for his life, and when he gets there he is forced to hunt. He knows that either he will die or either his victim, there is no other choice, but he keeps his emotions and fears under control, "his face was set, and he forced the machinery of his mind to function". Conversely, Rainsford

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On a “dank tropical night” (1) Rainsford finds their yacht near an island commonly known as “Ship-Trap Island” (1). Soon after his fellow friend bids his goodnight, Rainsford hears a distant “pistol shot” (4) coming from the island. Engrossed by the sound he accidentally falls off the yacht and into the Caribbean Sea.

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A little later he states that he has created a new animal to hunt. He stared trapping sailors on his island with lights that make the sailors think it's a safe pass through the rocks, when really, it leads them straight into rocks. He then explains how he cares for them and tends to eney wounds that they have, then training them to peak physical condition. Then releasing them into the wilds one at a time to be haunted by them for three days. He goes on to explain that at midnight of the third day that he stops hunting them, and arranges transport home.

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Rainsford is initially shown to not show any empathy to the wild animals he hunts. Zaroff is no different, with him declaring, “I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from tramp ships--lassars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels,” (9). Zaroff hunts humans who have the unfortunate luck to arrive on Ship-Trap Island. Zaroff gives no second thought about hunting humans because he finds them to be the perfect sport to hunt, and finds pleasure in hunting them. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the protagonist, Sanger Rainsford, and the antagonist, General Zaroff, are similar characters.

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“After swimming for what seemed like forever, I heard an ear piercing sound off in the distance. I decided to swim in the direction of what I knew was a gun-shot, knowing that where there is men, there is food.” Rainsford explained. He later went on to tell about how he weakly pulled himself onto a rocky shore, knowing that he had now escaped from the tortuous waters, he went into a deep sleep.

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In “A Dangerous Game” Rainsford is a hunter who is on a yacht, in the Caribbean sea on his way to the Amazon to hunt jaguars. On his way he ends up falling off his yacht into the warm waters of the Caribbean and as he swims in the direction he thinks his yacht should be he ends up coming upon land. As he is discovering this new land that he comes upon a house that is more like a castle than a house to him. He ends up meeting the man who lives inside and ends up being hunted by the man, and in the end, ends up getting a new perspective on how he looks and feels about hunting animals.

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“The Most Dangerous Game” Essay In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell A man named Rainsford hears a gunshot and falls off a boat on to which he was traveling upon. Rainsford swims to this island to which he heard the gunshots, once on land he walks around and finds an unusual sight A mansion. When inside the mansion he comes across a man Named General Zaroff whos is a fan of his. Zaroff he hunts humans.

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- ‘Even so, I rather think they understand one thing--fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death. ’”(Connell 18) By reading the theme the reader can infer the position Rainsford is in will drastically change. Although, Rainsford is not overtaken by the jaguar

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Rainford exposes his selfishness and lack of empathy by saying, “‘Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes-the hunters and the huntees. Luckily you and I are hunters’”(2). His actions throughout the story show his cruelty too. Rainsfords profession is killing animals, and while he does

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What is external conflict? External conflict is a struggle outside of a character. A commonly used example of external conflict is exhibited in the story of Cinderella. She was stuck in the household of her evil stepmother, and was not allowed to leave her home. Cinderella wanted to attend a ball; however, her stepmother would not let her go.

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“I am strong, I hunt the scum of the earth”(17). He only kills them because he wants to hunt something that can reason, something that can change its mind when faced with a life or death situation. “But they are men,” said Rainsford hotly. “Precisely,” said the general”(17). Zaroff is an apex hunter, and he demands the ultimate prey.

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Segregation was a huge controversy between the white and colored for many long years. Such as cases that will not allow blacks or whites to marry a different color than their own color, children not allowed to go to public schools with white children, or being able to sit in a white compartment. Many cases were lead up to segregation and the blacks wanted their freedom, equal rights, and being treated like a human being. They were not seen in white folks eyes as equal citizens, they wanted to change that. The Supreme Court has made many decisions to impact segregation: Plessy vs. Ferguson, Brown vs. Education, and Loving vs. Virginia

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