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“The most dangerous games” Rainsford can be described as an active, fearless and talented person. Rainsford can be described as an active, fearless and talented person. Rainsford is active because he is really fast and quick at anything. This is seen in the story when it says “Then he ran for his life. The hounds raised their voices as they hit the fresh scent” “When he saw or heard someone getting him he ran for it he kept going until he lost them”. He can also be described as fearless because…

Many stories can have characters that are similar in multiple ways. A way two characters can be similar is by the way they change. The character Alice in the story “Alice” changes fairly identical to how Sanger Rainsford changes in “The Most Dangerous Game”. Both experience a dynamic approvable alteration from the beginning to the end of the story. In Alice, Alice is described to live in a run down house, “flies buzzed in and out of the always-open door...”(line 7), “dim rank-smelling…

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell begins with two big game hunters, Whitney and Rainsford, on a yacht discussing the legend surrounding an island known only as “Ship-Trap Island”, and how it has earned itself such a reputation. In what turns out to be an act of foreshadowing, Rainsford and Whitney discuss whether or not the prey animals they hunt feel any fear of death while they are being hunted. Rainsford discredits Whitney by replying that the “hot weather is making you soft”.…

In The “Most Dangerous Game” when General Zaroff reveals that he hunts humans on the island Rainsford believes that he is a murderer while Zaroff just doesn’t see it. Zaroff says “Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure. I am strong”. So because of this we understand that Zaroff believes that the people he captures are the weak ones and he is the strong one therefor, he has every right to hunt the people that he captures.…

He could hardly understand a one of them. “Who are… happening… why… I thought!” they shouted. “Everyone quiet!” Rainsford exclaimed. “I am here to set you free. My name is Rainsford and I won The Most Dangerous Game against the general and he is recently deceased. I will need some of your assistance to get us off of this trap of an island.” He and all of the people he rescued walked down to the shore to see if they could see any near islands. When the reached…

Overcoming Frequent Obstacles Everyone goes through obstacles and some more than others. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell about a man names Rainford washing up on an island with a man named General Zaroff who likes to hunt for humans because hunting got too easy. General Zaroff goes through obstacles when his new friends Rainsford wants to leave before they hunt together. He tries to overcome these obstacles by bribery, misdirection the conversation, and being…

The theme of Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” is about instinct and reasoning. The story shows how using your instincts and rationally reasoning about a problem could prove to be useful, and how it might just save your life. Evidence for the theme can be found in the story. (42) “He wrestled himself out of his clothes and shouted with all his power.” The main character, Rainsford falls out of a yacht and lands in water. This shows his first instinct was to take his…

Animal Essay Most Dangerous Game Animal: Zaroff Introduction: For some people, getting past a certain thought, idea, or way of life is hard. It is hard to get past what’s on your brain and what you have been living by. Thesis: In The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell, and The Interlopers, by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki), some of the main characters are blinded by their animal nature and what they are used to, which leads to all of their deaths as a result. TS: Zaroff is like an animal…

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 Rainsford is a…

In Richard Connell's short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” is about the hunter and the hunted. Later in the story it becomes ironic when the hunter becomes the hunted. The story turns into a competition for survival. The author uses the story to present three conflicts for the main character that eventually change him. Rainsford has conflicts with other people, nature, and himself. The main conflict of the story is man versus man. The first conflict in the story is between Rainsford and…