Hunting In Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game

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Hunting is killing wild animals or a game, especially for food or a sport. Rainsford is a hunter in the story The Most Dangerous Game. Rainsford fell off his yacht and landed on General Zaroff's island. General Zaroff was happy to see Rainsford because when it comes to hunting Zaroff looks up to Rainsford. Rainsford started to take a liking in General Zaroff because they have hunting in common, but when Zaroff starts talking about how hunting is boring and how he want to hunt more reasonable things like humans, Rainsford is sure he doesn't want to go hunting with Zaroff because he doesn't want to be a murder. When Rainford hunts Jaguars he says they have no feelings so it's not called murder. Richard Connell uses mood/tone in the story “The

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