...Yu, Bo-bae Language Arts: Cochran The Most Dangerous Game CER How is the Ending of the “The Most Dangerous Game” ironic? Richard Connell’s suspenseful short story “The Most Dangerous Game” ends with an ironic twist due to the fact that the main character, Sanger Rainsford, gets to experience the feelings of fear the huntee goes through that he thought was just instinct. After Rainsford’s first encounter with General Zaroff, he realizes that he is being hunted down and he thinks, “The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the true meaning of terror” (Connell 12). Before, Rainsford did not believe that the hunted had any feelings or reason, but after he was the one being hunted for a change, he is proven wrong...
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...As a hunter stalks its prey, it has no fear, and it feels the strongest of animals. It feels as if nothing can hurt it. The hunter will always perceive itself as strongest, but that is not always the case. In Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game", big game hunter, Sanger Reinsford, discovers he has three challenging lessons ahead: strong versus the weak, the value of life, and becoming what he fears. Each challenge will test his will to survive while he holds to his moral beliefs. First Reinsford must endure the challenge of strong versus the weak. He is like weak prey against a strong, knowledgeable predator. Reinsford is weak both mentally and physically due to being unfamiliar with the terrain, and he had to run a great...
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...Most short stories have just one or two types of conflict. However, in Richard Connell’s, The Most Dangerous Game, this short story has all three types of conflict. The most common type of conflict in a story, man against man, has General Zaroff hunting Rainsford, and Rainsford fighting for his life. For man against nature, Rainsford battles through all the burdensome obstacles on and around Ship-Trap Island. The last, but not least arduous, conflict is man against himself. Rainsford struggles to keep sane while General Zaroff hunts him. The type of conflict, man against man, may be the most popular type of conflict to be in a story. General Zaroff seeks pleasure in hunting humans, and Rainsford is his prey. “Rainsford’s impulse was to hurl...
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...once went to a party with my grandparents for their neighborhood fundraising event. While my grandparents went off and talked to all of the people who showed up, I would talk to any person who walked up to me. Most people were nice and said hi and asked how I was doing, but there was one man who was very polite and started up and actual conversation with me. He was very nice but when he started to talk to some of the other guests, I walked away a few feet and stood to myself. I was close enough to hear their conversation and the very polite and nice man was talking and a news story of a man who was convicted of murder, he was saying how he would have done the same thing in reference to the murderer. Once he said that everyone that he was talking with made an excuse to...
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...The Vital Setting For “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” has an essential setting for the plot of the story. For instance, General Zaroff has no worry about his prey escaping the island because of the water surrounding the island with nowhere to swim. Without the hazardous rocks surrounding the island with also no land to be seen looking off it Zaroff would be driven to worry about his prey escaping. The water also does not allow people to leave the island because it is in the middle of nowhere. While hunting Rainsford realizes, “He was in a picture with a frame of water, and his operations, clearly, must take place within that frame” (11). The never ending water around the island ensures...
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...The diction and imagery in Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” agitate the reader and create a sympathetic mood, which allows the reader to experience Rainsford’s perspective as a “huntee.” The reader is pulled into Rainsford’s perspective first with descriptions of his “desperate, hopeless flight [through the woods], that carrie[s] him on for several hours” (77). The words “desperate” and “hopeless” have strong connotations of suffering and despair, which evoke sympathy from the reader. Coupled with the visual imagery of Rainsford’s “flight,” this sentence is a strong foundation for the mood that will continue to build as Zaroff pursues Rainsford. The detailed descriptions of Rainsford’s battle against Zaroff show the reader that in...
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...“Obstacles are necessary for success because as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.” by Og Mandino.“The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story written by Richard Connell, which takes place after World War II on an abandoned island. The story talks about how Rainsford makes his way through General Zaroff's playground, narrowly escaping death at every corner. General Zaroff forces Rainsford into a game of murder that ends in Zaroff’s death. Throughout the story, Rainsford's beliefs,confidence, and perspective morphs and the story progresses, which makes him a dynamic character. The last obstacle that Rainsford overcome was the environment, which was the main cause of Rainsford being trapped on General Zaroff’s island, and it was also the reason why he eventually won the “ Most Dangerous Game”. The first obstacle that Rainsford overcame was the fear of being killed by General Zaroff....
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...Hunting is a burning fire, it can be as tame as it is wild; but like all fires, it is easily extinguished. Like in the story, The Most Dangerous Game, the main character Rainsford is burned in the wildfires of the hunt, as he himself is hunted like the very prey he first sought after himself. Due of the experiences he was forced to endure, Rainsford may never seek the embers of his once beloved sport again. Rainsford once thought hunting was the best sport in the world, but as previously stated, his opinions swiftly changed. Rainsford went up against a fellow hunter named General Zaroff, who was almost equal in skill to himself, so good, in fact, that he began hunting a different type of game… humans. He even expresses his disgust, questioning the...
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...The Winner of the Most Dangerous Game In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell,the hunter becomes the hunted. The two main characters are hunters; one is a Cossack who is a cold blooded murder, and the other one is an excellent hunter with morals that are about to be put under a big challenge. The main character Rainsford is sailing to the Amazon looking for great adventures, but he falls off the boat and swims to an island that the sailors call “Trap Island”. On the island, he finds a mansion in the middle of all the vegetation. In the mansion Rainsford is offered shelter from General Zaroff and Ivan, who are two Cossacks, but the main problem unfolds when General Zaroff refuses to help Rainsford get off of the island and...
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...In the story “ The Most Dangerous Game” was about a hunter and a man who fell out of a boat. He than swam to a little island in the middle of nowhere, with a guy named General Zaroff who lived on it. Then Rainsford went into it and meet General Zaroff and found out how crazy he was and he was frightened. He found out that General Zaroff liked to hunt but not animals he liked to hunt men. “Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.” (Geto Boys. Song Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta) After that when he found out Rainsford flipped and was worried. Then General Zaroff decided to make a game with him and he says, “ I have never l. So from this short story you will see that Rainsford gets a in a tough predicament. For this paragraph it will be about who was the hunter in the story. My thought was that General Zaroff was the hunter obviously. Like he says in the short story, “ My hand was made for the trigger my father said.” (Connell, Pg 223) He said this because his way of having fun was by hunting. He enjoyed the rush the power and the fun. He was the hunter he chose to hunt people or men in his case. General Zaroff was naturally a killer. Especially when he tried to get Rainsford and how he made that bet....
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...To end with, Rainsford doesn't want to be called a murderer. First of all, The general is talking to Rainsford about the hunt, but Rainsford was thinking about an animal until he fingers out what the animal is “Hunting? Good God, ...[what you] speak ...is murder”( Connell 27). After all the General is a big game hunter but after he hunted every animal he got bored, but now since Rainford land on the island, the general will what to play a game of hide and seek with a bonus point of killing, and since he won then the game may have been influenced Rainford on using the same game for the next people that come to the island. But, Rainsford is a “ hunter, not a murderer” unlike General Zaroff (Connell 27). When Rainford and the general we're talking about the game Rainsford thought that they were a strange animal on the island but it turned out they were going to kill each other or hunt each other but, Rainford is a hunter he wants to hunt animals not his own people....
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...How does it feel to be the prey instead of the predator ? In the story “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, the main character, Rainsford, learns what it is like to go from the hunter to the hunted and back to the hunter. Rainsford is a dynamic character and is the protagonist of the story. He loved the art of hunting because he was always the hunter. For example, Rainsford explained his feelings about hunting when he stated, “Great sport of hunting, the best sport in the world of hunting.” This quote explains the art of hunting from his point of view. Another example that represents his point of view of hunting is found on page 216 when Rainsford states, “The world is made up of two classes, the hunted and the hunters. Lucky you...
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...believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all.” (Unknown). It is quite ironic how people who are educated and wealthy can lack basic morals and respect for fellow humans. The novel, “The Most Dangerous Game”, an adventure fiction piece by Richard Connell, reveals ironic relationships such as General Zaroff who acts like a gentleman but hunts people for sport. General Zaroff is a perfect example of irony as he is a sociopath while still upholding a demeanor of civility, wealth, and education. This irony is seen in the way Zaroff talks, his mansion, and his actions. Zaroff talks about civility and his riches while at the same time discussing how he is above everyone stating, “The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure....
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...How often does it happen, that an upset happens, and the underdog winner has been weighted against so heavily, that when he does win, it seems to shake the world? In “The Most Dangerous Game”, Connell perfectly depicts the idea of a loveable underdog winning a battle over a heavily favored opponent. He does this also with a very interesting twist. His victim, Rainsford, had predator-like characteristics about him until he became the prey. Then, after he gains an advantage over his hunter, General Zaroff, Zaroff can not fend for himself because he has never been in a victim position before. “I drink to a foeman worthy of my steel”(Connell, 34). This proves to the power of underestimation. If the ruffian underestimates his victim, he can fall behind in a battle in mere seconds. Often in books and stories, a character with a predator-like position loses that position, and he cannot defend himself nearly as well as the person that overtook him as the predator. This can happen with just the smallest advantage, it can be triggered by revenge, and it can open one’s eyes to another perspective of life....
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...Richard Connell wrote “The Most Dangerous Game” to investigate rather hunting humans is murder. Some people see hunting animals as murder, but Zaroff thinks hunting anything or anybody is the same. Rainsford thinks hunting animals is okay, but hunting humans is murder. These two hunters had completely different ideas of hunting and murdering. Rainsford did not like the fact that General Zaroff thought hunting men was right. Rainsford quotes “I cant believe you are serious General Zaroff. This is a grisly joke.” Zaroff said “Why should I not be serious? I am speaking of hunting.” Then Rainsford says “Hunting? General Zaroff what you speak of is murder.” In the story General Zaroff hunts people because he got bored of hunting animals. He liked to trick people with the channels and direct them in another direction which makes them wreck and make them swim to his island Ship Trap....
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