The Most Dangerous Game was written by Richard Connel. Considering Connel was born in the 1890’s, this story is pretty old. When The Most Dangerous game was published, it won an award for short fiction. This book was very interesting, and suspensful. Throughout the whole book, you are putting the pieces together as you read. Things start to make sense when things are said. This short story takes place in a jungle on a Carribean Island. A man named Zaroff lives on this island. He catches sailors that come through, and make them play his “game”. A man named Rainsford happens to be one of these sailors. Zaroff tries to hunt him, but soon finds out Rainsford has strengths he didn’t know about. Rainsford uses his hunting skills to avoid Zaroff in the jungle.
In this story there are two hunters. Rainsford and Zaroff. Rainsford is a skilled big game hunter. Zaroff used to hunt animals, but not anymore. Zaroff says “ I hunt more dangerous game”. In the story Zaroff is the main hunter. He used to hunt animals all the time. Animals began to bore him. So he decided hunting humans would be more fun. In the story Zaroff sets up a trap for ships. That brought the surviving sailors to shore. He would take the sailors into his house, and make them feel safe, and at home. Then he would …show more content…
Rainsford and Zaroff are both hunters. In the story, Zaroff becomes the only hunter. So when Rainsford isn’t being a hunter, he is obviously the hunted. So in live you can only be one or the other at one time. Rainsford hunts big game in the story. Zaroff used to be the same way, until animals began to bore him. Zaroff decided it’s fun to hunt humans. He found pleasure in chasing his own kind around the forest with a pistol. So Rainsford statement is obviously true. If you aren’t the hunter, you know you must be the hunted. Or in some cases, the