However, soon after, Rainsford encounters an even more difficult situation from the last. The antagonist, Zaroff, manipulates Rainsford into playing a game where "the Cossack was the cat” and “he was the mouse" (26). Despite the sheer terror he felt, Rainsford manages to calm down and rationalize what to do. In an attempt to eliminate or at least hinder Zaroff, Rainsford “stepped back from the quicksand a dozen feet or so, and, like some prehistoric creature, he began to dig” (26). Unlike all the previous others, Rainsford manages to gain the upper hand on Zaroff.…
While hunting with Zaroff, however, Rainsford is the prey, but he still uses his reason, knowledge, and cleverness to his advantage. Following his instinct, Rainsford cut a clever and complicated trail through the island to hoodwink General Zaroff. Zaroff tried to defeat Rainsford…
Rainsford is able to survive because he has a lot of good idiosyncrasy which in turn helps him survive in the story “The Most Dangerous Game.” He was a very intelligent man. He showed a lot of courage in this story . “The revolver pointed as ridgeley as if he was a statue” (p.43 Conell). This shows a lot of courage because he had a gun pointed right at his chest and he just stood there like nothing was happening.…
In ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ by Richard Connell Rainsford is in no way a murderer. Rainsford is only capable of killing an animal. Rainsford only killed Zaroff in self defense, Rainsford also made it very clear that he thought killing another human being was inhumane, but on the other hand Rainsford had no real reason to kill General Zaroff. Rainsford did not know what Zaroff had in mind so his last resort was self defense. Rainsford must have thought that if Zaroff did not die then he would be the one to die instead.…
After Zaroff introduces himself to Rainsford, he graciously provides him with dinner. During the meal, the general is “studying him, appraising him narrowly,” (Connell 7). To put it differently, during the meal, Zaroff is examining and valuing Rainsford. This shows that Zaroff is scrutinizing Rainsford to see if he is worthy of whatever the general plans for him to do. Zaroff sees himself as above the vast majority of people.…
Someones true self is usually prevailed when they're alone. To me this means that you only show your true self when no one is looking and I definitely agree with that. In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford shows that he is different when he is alone by demonstrating his resourceful thinking, lack of humor, and seriousness. The first reason I agree with the prompt is Rainsford displays very strategical thinking.…
General Zaroff states "the world is made up of two classes- the hunters and the huntees." suggesting that only two types of humans roam the Earth, people with passive or aggressive personality’s. This is a global simplification of human behavior. From beginning to end Zaroff did have a considerably positive influence on Rainsford In spite of which Rainsford endured Zaroff’s agonizing wrath. This endeavor changes Rainsford’s nature but is it for the better.…
‘[Rainsford] will not lose his nerve. He will not.’…. His face was set and he forced the machinery of his mind to function” (32-33). Rainsford realizes that he is being toyed with and by being able to identify this, he is prepared to calm himself and come up with a plan.…
When Rainsford is on the island trapped with General Zaroff he relies fear, he is one of the most skilled hunters in the world and now he’s running away trying to stay alive in the book it says “… The general was saving him for another day's sport! The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror” this statement shows the change in position in the story as Rainsford is now scared and running for his life. At the beginning of the story Rainsford was cocky and full of himself but once he was in danger he started getting more humble realizing he was the one being hunted now he becomes more serious and concerned on how he will allude Zaroff for 3 days so he can win the game.…
Another example of plot similarities, is that Rainsford sets the same traps in both versions of The Most Dangerous Game. In both interpretations of the story, when Rainsford is challenged to the hunting game by Zaroff, he sets a sapling trap, a hole trap, and a sand trap. Despite these and many more similarities, there are also notable differences in the two storylines. One example of a great difference is that there is a time difference in the versions of the story. In the book, Rainsford is challenged to survive for three days while being hunted by Zaroff.…
Rainsford is the main character in the short story The most dangerous game. Rainsford is a professional hunter who is going to reo to hunt when he falls of his yacht after hearing 3 gunshots off in the distance. After following the sound of the shots he washes up on the shore of ship trap island. On this island he meets zarof a hunter himself talks to rainsford how he hunts this new game which is humans shocked rainsford is forced to play his “game” which zarof starts to hunt him…
In the fictional short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Rainsford has several conflicts with General Zaroff. The conflicts are both physical and mental. Not only does General Zaroff physically hunt Rainsford in the jungle, but Zaroff also argues that hunting humans for sport is not considered murder. These conflicts are used to build suspense throughout the story.…
Have you ever been scared? Of course you have, everyone has. The book “People Call me Crazy” was written by Gary Paulsen and it is about this boy who was scared of swimming in water. The book “Animal Distress Calls” was written by Eliot Schrefer and is about a girl that gets lost at the zoo. There is a point of freight for the main character in both stories.…
Nature, this conflict is shown with the example of him trying to hide from General Zaroff. Rainsford uses nature to defeat General Zaroff. First, Rainsford dug a hole and put sharp sticks in it and covered it with a leafs that were woven together. With this pit, one of General Zaroff’s dogs got killed. Then, Rainsford uses a weak tree and tied a knife to it and made it so that it would fling up and kill someone or seriously injure someone.…
The bed mercilessly taunts my exhausted limbs to return but my determined heart persuades me to brave the trial by water once more. As I dive over the ice cold pool, dread and regret fill every moment until my body finally makes contact. For two, sometimes three, hours the situation will only worsen as I repeatedly raise my arms above my head and pull back as hard as possible. Weeks of this pass by, all for the sake of being able to travel through 100 meters of water a few milliseconds faster. Swimming has been my primary sport since the age of eight.…