Dangerous Liaisons

“The Most Dangerous Game” narrative centers around about 3 things: hunting, Rainsford, and his attempt to stay alive. There are two people, Rainsford and Whitney, that are on a yacht and they are hunters. They pass an island and Whitney tells Rainsford that it is a dangerous place. Whitney leaves Rainsford to get ready for bed. While Rainsford is alone, he hears 3 gunshots, which makes confusion and interest blossom in his mind. His interest in the gunshots has him falling over the edge of the…

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…

characterization and narration? I believe it is theme. Theme is a lesson that can be learned in literature and life. I believe personal experience help find theme, like when i was in the 8th grade i learned through other people conflict. In the story the most dangerous game part of the conflict is man vs self. The conflict inside rainsford was the fear of being killed. As the story progresses i see Rainford change. He becomes fearless as he becomes at the end. At the end of the book he manages…

Change occur around us all the time,sometimes great other times not so much.This idea is shown all throughout the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Connell expresses his ideas about change to the reader through a character named Sanger Rainsford a very well known hunter who’s ironically stranded on an island that everyone is afraid of. Through physical and mental ability to change we see the strength and knowledge grow inside of Rainsford. Though Rainsford undergoes…

Hunting is a killing certain animals for game. “The most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connel tells hunting, and how it could go wrong. Zaroff demonstrates that he is cruel, evil, and he is wicked. First Zaroff is a cruel person, “that is why i use them. It gives me pleasure, they can reason after a-fasion, so they are dangerous (225).” That means he gets pleasure from killing innocent civilians for game. “A rather good lot, I think i dissolved the gold they are let out at seven every night…

In the novel The Lord of the Flies, the short story The Most Dangerous Game, and in another short story Thank You Ma’am Wilkie Collins’ inquiry is prominent in each text as characters display both traits of good and evil. People are good to the extent where their situation and upbringing will reflect their innate nature as seen through Ralph and Piggy in Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, Rainsford in The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell, and Roger in Thank You Ma’am by…

place through out the story. The film and story we experienced in class were some of the first stories to use these themes. They use them similarly and differently making both of these stories great and unique in their own way. In the novel The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell a world class hunter experiences getting hunted after washing up on an island. He is hunted by a narcissistic psychopath who thinks it it okay to hunt and murder men in cold blood. In the film High Noon…

Little hints suggesting of a darker theme are dispersed throughout the beginning half of the story using foreshadowing. One of the first examples of this is the name of the island which Rainsford and Whitney are passing, dubbed Ship Trap Island by superstitious sailors who have a “curious dread of the place”. The sinister tone of the name and the aversion the sailors seem to have towards it instantly makes the reader suspicious, however Rainsford dismisses the stigma surrounding the island as…

Rainsford went through a very traumatic experience during his stay with General Zaroff. The general was a hunter and did so for sport. After Rainsford won the game and managed to defeat and kill General Zaroff, I think that Rainsfords outlook on hunting must have changed. He himself now knows how it feel to be the one hunted, “Then it was that Rainsford knew the true meaning of terror.” Why would a man, who knows what the animals and game that Rainsford hunts, goes through continue to hunt them.…

Salt and pepper both used for seasoning but have very different tastes. This is an analogy I would use to describe Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff. In the duration of the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, both are portrayed a impeccable hunters, but, as the story proceeds the separation the two hunters unfolds. Although they bear some mutual similarities, the difference between Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff are quite pronounced; differences such as their age, where there from,…