Imagine running for your life from an animal. This is how an animal feels about being hunted and running for their lives. The central idea of the story “The most Dangerous Game.” revolves around a literary technique called tone. The central idea is animals should be treated with the same empathy and respect that you desire to be treated. Always think about being in another animal's shoes when you are running for your life and about to get eaten by a lion.
The author of “Most Dangerous Game” wants to give the reader a point of view that an animal has feelings. The author gives an example of how unconscious people can be about animal cruelty. This example is “You are a big game hunter not a philosopher who cares how a jaguar feels. “Perhaps …show more content…
Now Rainsford begins to put himself in the animals shoes and now the author is trying to pull the reader to think that if you had to run from a huge animal like a tiger, lion or shark you would feel the significant amount of danger that the animals feel on a daily basis. The author wants to prevent and eventually end cruelty, poaching and killing of animals. After creating a misleading path through the jungle in order to lose General Zaroff on their first night of the hunt, Rainsford switches perspectives and hides in a tree to restore some of his strength. “I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable.” Comparing Rainsford with foxes and cats allows Connell to highlight Rainsford’s fear and personality to become more animal like in which he must imitate the instinctive behavior of paranoia of animals to survive from big game hunters like Zaroff and Rainsford. This quote also reminds readers of Rainsford’s earlier conversation with his friend Whitney on board the yacht when Rainsford denies that what he hunts does not care about living in fear because they don't have feeling. Such thinking, he had initially believed, only personify animals …show more content…
Although General Zaroff believes that cool thinking always allow him to celebrate over his prey that is in awe, his physical injuries continued from springing Rainsford’s traps that really highlights the bad judgement and reasoning and comes to realize that he is much more vulnerable than he perceives. In the end, Rainsford survives the hunt only after the powerful feeling of fear forces him to jump off a cliff into the ocean, a riskier decision than he would ordinarily make. The animal and human logic work in tandem to clinch his survival and without this kind of reasoning Rainsford would’ve been dead. Whitney and Rainsford have a conversation about the joy of hunting. Rainsford believes it is the greatest sport in the world, though Whitney believes that it is fun only for the hunters and the hunted might not find it so pleasurable . “…Great sport, hunting.”“The best sport in the world,” agreed Rainsford. lk rot, “Bah! They’ve no understanding.”“Even so, I rather think they understand one thing—fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death.”“Nonsense,” laughed Rainsford. “This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney. Be
The author of “Most Dangerous Game” wants to give the reader a point of view that an animal has feelings. The author gives an example of how unconscious people can be about animal cruelty. This example is “You are a big game hunter not a philosopher who cares how a jaguar feels. “Perhaps …show more content…
Now Rainsford begins to put himself in the animals shoes and now the author is trying to pull the reader to think that if you had to run from a huge animal like a tiger, lion or shark you would feel the significant amount of danger that the animals feel on a daily basis. The author wants to prevent and eventually end cruelty, poaching and killing of animals. After creating a misleading path through the jungle in order to lose General Zaroff on their first night of the hunt, Rainsford switches perspectives and hides in a tree to restore some of his strength. “I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable.” Comparing Rainsford with foxes and cats allows Connell to highlight Rainsford’s fear and personality to become more animal like in which he must imitate the instinctive behavior of paranoia of animals to survive from big game hunters like Zaroff and Rainsford. This quote also reminds readers of Rainsford’s earlier conversation with his friend Whitney on board the yacht when Rainsford denies that what he hunts does not care about living in fear because they don't have feeling. Such thinking, he had initially believed, only personify animals …show more content…
Although General Zaroff believes that cool thinking always allow him to celebrate over his prey that is in awe, his physical injuries continued from springing Rainsford’s traps that really highlights the bad judgement and reasoning and comes to realize that he is much more vulnerable than he perceives. In the end, Rainsford survives the hunt only after the powerful feeling of fear forces him to jump off a cliff into the ocean, a riskier decision than he would ordinarily make. The animal and human logic work in tandem to clinch his survival and without this kind of reasoning Rainsford would’ve been dead. Whitney and Rainsford have a conversation about the joy of hunting. Rainsford believes it is the greatest sport in the world, though Whitney believes that it is fun only for the hunters and the hunted might not find it so pleasurable . “…Great sport, hunting.”“The best sport in the world,” agreed Rainsford. lk rot, “Bah! They’ve no understanding.”“Even so, I rather think they understand one thing—fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death.”“Nonsense,” laughed Rainsford. “This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney. Be