Presented in Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” is a story that keeps readers thirsting to find out what happens next. It begins on a boat that shortly falls ship-wrecked leaving the only survivor, Sanger Rainsford, fighting against the elements to make it to land. He knows there is civilization somewhere on the island he’s found, called Ship Trap Island, because he had heard gunshots near the island upon his unbeknownst last encounter with the ship. Upon navigating the jungle and its unforgiving terrain, Rainsford is exposed to many lights which he is led to believe is a mirage. Shortly after, he discovers it is a home with a quite peculiar team of individuals residing there: General Zaroff, a very unusual type of hunter, and Ivan,
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nature is a prominent aspect of the way the story is told. The very first scene where Rainsford is conversing with another man about how thick the fog around the ship is presents a miniscule, yet solid example of man vs. nature. Again, when Rainsford falls shipwrecked, he is forced to fight a violent battle with the ocean while swimming to the shore. Once he finds the shore, he is so tired from his combat with the sea that he “tumbled headlong into the deepest sleep of his life.” He discovers the next morning that it is easier to travel along the shoreline, rather than take on the jungle’s terrain. Rainsford is one-on-one with the elements until he is let into General Zaroff’s home. The narrator leads the reader to believe that after this, Rainsford will be taken care of and then sent home to New York. Contrary to that belief, Zaroff reveals that the only chance of that happening is if Rainsford can successfully survive during the three-day manhunt. Then, Rainsford is given hunting clothes, some food, and a knife and sent back out into the wilderness to presumably die. He tries so desperately to leave a trail for General Zaroff to follow that by the first night he has grown weary and beaten up by the limbs of trees. The next day, Rainsford spends hours cutting away at a dead tree so that it might fall on the general. After the attempt to kill Zaroff failed, Rainsford trails through the jungle once more fighting off insects and the
nature is a prominent aspect of the way the story is told. The very first scene where Rainsford is conversing with another man about how thick the fog around the ship is presents a miniscule, yet solid example of man vs. nature. Again, when Rainsford falls shipwrecked, he is forced to fight a violent battle with the ocean while swimming to the shore. Once he finds the shore, he is so tired from his combat with the sea that he “tumbled headlong into the deepest sleep of his life.” He discovers the next morning that it is easier to travel along the shoreline, rather than take on the jungle’s terrain. Rainsford is one-on-one with the elements until he is let into General Zaroff’s home. The narrator leads the reader to believe that after this, Rainsford will be taken care of and then sent home to New York. Contrary to that belief, Zaroff reveals that the only chance of that happening is if Rainsford can successfully survive during the three-day manhunt. Then, Rainsford is given hunting clothes, some food, and a knife and sent back out into the wilderness to presumably die. He tries so desperately to leave a trail for General Zaroff to follow that by the first night he has grown weary and beaten up by the limbs of trees. The next day, Rainsford spends hours cutting away at a dead tree so that it might fall on the general. After the attempt to kill Zaroff failed, Rainsford trails through the jungle once more fighting off insects and the