Richard Connell Character Analysis

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Rainsford in Richard Connell’s The most dangerous game Is very Tactical and he is Brave and Determined. The reason he is brave is because he jumped off a 20 foot cliff into very bad water to avoid General Zaroff. In the beginning he also swam towards gunshots. He is very tactical because he made lots of books about hunting. He made traps for General Zaroff to hopefully get catch in. Some of the traps were very hard and complex to make. Rainsford is Determined. In the beginning he did not stop swimming. He avoided all of the times Zaroff tried to kill him. He made traps after his first ones failed. At the end he probably needed to swim a long ways and had to climb up a rocky cliff. Just so he could kill Zaroff and sleep in a warm

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