In most cases hunting is acceptable when done legally. But in the story “The most dangerous game” by Richard Connell, a man named general Zaroff entraps and hunts shipwrecked sailors. The main character, Rainsford, gets on an island called ship trap island. Rainsford refused Zaroff’s offer to go hunting with him so zaroff decides instead, he will hunt Rainsford for 3 days of running, hiding and setting up traps. In the story Rainsford’s most important traits are that he is brave, cunning and resourceful.

In the story, the main character Rainsford is very brave. In the story Rainsford meets a man, he turns out to be a murderer. The man tries to convince Rainsford to go “hunting” with him, but in this case they weren't gonna be hunting deer. In the story it says “Rainsford shook his head ‘No general’ he said ‘i will not hunt’”(pg 10). This quote shows that Rainsford is brave because he knows general Zaroff could kill him but he stands up for what he believes in anyways.

The word cunning describes Rainsford in the story “the most dangerous game”by Richard Connell. In the story Rainsford has to escape a man named general Zaroff, who is trying to kill him, for 3 days. He was in the woods and knew he had to throw Zaroff off so he made a bunch of tracks going in all …show more content…
In the story, Rainsford was only given hunting clothes, some food and a knife to be used to help him survive the three nights. The only other resources he had with his knowledge. In the story says” he thought of a native trick he learned in Uganda. He slid down the tree. He caught hold of a springy young sapling and to it he fastened his hunting knife, with the blade pointing down on the trail;”. with a bit of wild grapevine he tied back the sapling”. This shows he is resourceful because he used something he learned from somewhere else. Also he used his knife that he was given and the nature he found around