The Most Dangerous Game Chapter 1 Summary

Summary of The Most Dangerous Game Sanger Rainsford was heading to “Rio” (1) to hunt jaguars. While everyone was asleep, Rainsford went out on the deck to “smoke another pipe.” (2) When his pipe was falling off the yacht, he reached out and tried to grab it but, fell off of it. Rainsford started to swim to the “Ship-Trap island” (1) because he heard a “pistol shot.” (4) When he got to the island he followed footprints and met two men, Ivan and General Zaroff. Zaroff already knew who Rainsford was, because he read Rainsford’s book. Zaroff then started talking to him about how “[he] hunts more dangerous game”, (8) and how Zaroff found a “new animal”, (10) which was a human. Rainsford was surprised and disgusted about Zaroff hunting humans. Zaroff wanted to hunt with Rainsford, but Rainsford denied him. Zaroff then told rainsford has to be hunted, “ [Zaroff’s] strength against [his].” (15) Rainsford had to survive for three days to leave the island. After Ivan gave rainsford’s clothes, Rainsford ran and “Gave [him] a trail to follow.” (17) While rainsford was being hunted, he made “The Malay Man Catcher” to catch Zaroff, but it didn't work.On the second he made another trap called “Burmese Tiger Pit,” (20) where it killed …show more content…
In the article, “Several hundred Congolese who fled the simmering conflicts in their home country” (32) the refugees left because there were too much conflicts just like “The most Dangerous Game” Zaroff left Russia “for it was imprudent for an officer.” (Connell 9) Another connection was that in the article “Newcomers are house initially in huge UN tents” (Hoekema 34) and Zaroff hid his newcomers “in the cellar.. dozen pupils down there” (Connell 13) but instead of protecting them like in the article, Zaroff hunted them. They both took in people but one was for a good reason and the other one was