The Setting In Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game

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The setting very essential to the plot of Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game.” For example, Rainsford cannot escape the island because it is in the middle od the ocean. Rainsford cannot run anywhere and if he tried to swim he would eventully drown. If the setting was not a island no in the niddle of the ocean then Rainsford can escape and tell the police and other people that General Zaroff is murderig people.If the island was on land then Rainsford could escape by running away, but if the setting was in the ocean close to the shore or in closed body of water then he could swim to the shore and escape. Rainsford realizes, “. . .that straight flight is futile; inevatibly it would bring him face to face with the sea. He