...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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...Could Rainsford Bare to hunt again? Hunting for Rainsford is like eating, it’s a necessity. Rainsford will need to kill game again, not only for his survival, but it’s like second nature to him. Rainsford may not pursue animals for enjoyment as he once did, but he will do it again, also survival is key to the lonely island, he may have been influenced from winning to continue this game, and he has based his whole life upon hunting so it’ll be a hard habit to quit. On the first note, Rainsford will hunt again because winning may affect his ego. At the end of the game “[Rainsford] had never slept in a better bed” due to the end decision of who becomes dog food and who sleeps in the winners bed, and of course this was decided by Rainsford (Connell 36). Therefore, Rainsford had shown that he beat the best, and because Zaroff unestimated someone else due to his experience and was outsmarted. Rainsford beat Zaroff, and had “won the game” (Connell 36). In hindsight, winning can possibly...
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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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...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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...Why would you come back to something you love? In “The Most Dangerous Game,” hunting is all a man, named Rainsford, lives for. Rainsford is a talented man, who wouldn't betray hunting for anything. He thinks that hunting is the greatest sport that was ever made in this world. Then Rainsford once came across, the negative use of hunting, HUNTING HUMANS!!!! Even though, Rainsford experienced the situation, he is believed to come back to hunting. Rainsfords dedication to hunting, will motivate him to continue to hunt again. First of all, Rainsford should continue to hunt again because he’ll have some advantages under his sleeves; defining that he’ll be prepared for almost anything. One advantage that Rainsford will have in hunting is that he’ll be able to trick his enemy or target multiple times, only benefiting himself. For example, Rainsford would double onto “his trail again and again” (Connell 32). This then explains why Rainsford is characterized as clever, because he adapted this trick from a fox, from his previous hunts. In addition, Rainsford has another advantage, where he is part animal. Likewise, Rainsford refers to himself as “beast at bay” (Connell 36). Moreover, Rainsford expresses that he has an...
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...actions indicate a difference in character. The protagonist, Rainsford, in The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, progressively transforms from a critical hunter to a human hunter, developed from his desire for survival. Rainsford is very critical and thick-skulled when it comes to hunting. For instance, he expresses no care towards animals and Whitney by saying that, “You’re a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels.” (pg.19) This statement reveals that Rainsford has no sympathy when hunting down animals; as long as he wins against the enemy, that’s all that matters. Since Rainsford does not know what it feels like to be...
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...The Most Dangerous Game Connell, Richard Published: 1924 Categorie(s): Fiction, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective, Short Stories, Thrillers Source: Feedbooks 1 About Connell: Richard Edward Connell, Jr. (October 28, 1893 – November 23, 1949) was an American author and journalist, best known for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game." Connell was one of the best-known American short story writers of his time and his stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly. Connell had equal success as a journalist and screenwriter. He was nominated for an Academy Award for best original story for 1941's Meet John Doe. He died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California on November 22, 1949 at the age of fifty-six. Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. Note: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http://www.feedbooks.com Strictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2 "Off there to the right—somewhere—is a large island," said Whitney." It's rather a mystery—" "What island is it?" Rainsford asked. "The old charts call it `Ship-Trap Island,"' Whitney replied." A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition—" "Can't see it," remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht. "You've good eyes," said Whitney, with a laugh," and...
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...Second Coming could look like. Turning and turning in the widening gyre (line 1) Yeats imagines the world in a cyclical sphere known a gyre (shape of a cone). In Yeats' note on the text, he states that "the end of an age, which always receives the revelation of the character of the next age, is represented by the coming of one gyre to its place of greatest expansion and of the other to that of its greatest contraction" (2036). Yeats believes that the two thousand years of Christianity will be coming to an end, and after a violent reversal a new age will take its place. The widening part of the gyre is supposed to connote anarchy, evil, and the loss of innocence. The falcon cannot hear the falconer; (2) The falconer in this analogy is most likely God (or Jesus), and the falcon is the follower (or devotee). Humanity can no longer hear the word of God, because it is drowned out by all of chaos of the widening gyre. A wild falcon can symbolize an unconverted Gentile; someone who has sinful thoughts, and does sinful things. A tame falcon (one who listens to the word of God) is a Christian convert. In the Egyptian culture, the falcon is used to represent sky deities (or in Christian terms, God). Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, (3-4) Everything will fall into chaos if there is not a guiding morality such as God. The world cannot stay at the center of the gyre, because it would mean complete destruction. There has to be a reversal...
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