Most Dangerous Game Risk

Have you ever been chased by a crazy person and dogs that are trying to kill you or been on a date with a girl 3 years older than you? In the stories, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell and The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant by W. D. Wetherell, both of the main characters are risk takers because they both knew that something bad might happen but they still did it.

In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford is a risk taker. He risked his life by jumping into the water to get away from Zaroff. “Rainsford forced himself on toward that gap. He reached it. It was the shore of the sea. Across a cove he could see the gloomy gray stone of the chateau. Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed. Rainsford hesitated. He heard the hounds. Then he leaped far out into the sea. . . .” (Connell -). This quote showed that he was scared so he hesitated. A risk taker has to be confident and believe in himself and Rainsford has that in him. He knew that if he jumped there was a chance that he could die but he also knew that there was a chance that he could survive. If he didn’t jump there was a good chance that he would be hurt by Zaroff and his hounds.

Rainsford is a risk taker. He accepted the challenge to be hunted for 3 days …show more content…
He risk the biggest bass he ever caught just to impress Sheila. “Four things occurred to me at once. One, that it was a bass. Two, that it was a big bass. Three, that it was the biggest bass I had ever hooked. Four, that Sheila Mant must not know.” (Wetherell -). Sheila didn’t like fishing but for the narrator fishing was part of his life. He had to choose between his crush or the biggest fish that he ever caught. If he choose the fish he thought that he would lose Sheila but if he choose to let the fish go he thought that he would have a chance with Sheila. In the end he choose Sheila but that resulted with Sheila going home with a different guy around the same age as