Mickie Most

Can you imagine being hunted by another human being? For Sanger Rainsford, a hunter from New York, this crazy scenario has come true. The short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, portrays Rainsford’s struggle to survive. When he falls off of a boat, Rainsford swims to a mysterious island, where he meets a man named General Zaroff. Zaroff likes to hunt humans because he is not challenged by hunting animals. Later in the story, Zaroff hunts Rainsford. Even though Rainsford faces…

“The Most Dangerous Game” Theme Analysis Richard Connell supports the theme of all people have an animal side that is not far from their visible surface in his short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, by having a seemingly civilized man secretly have savage ways, and a sympathetic man have to resort to murder to save himself. In Connell’s story, the main character, Rainsford, is alone of a tropical island. That is, until he comes across a mansion, which is the house of general Zaroff. General…

I chose the book “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. The genre of this book is fiction. There are three literary terms that Connell uses. The first one is plot, which is the story line to the story. The second one is suspense, which is the reader’s feeling of curiosity, uncertainty, or even anxiety about the outcome of the events. The last one is surprise ending, which is a plot twist at the end of the story. The author uses these three elements to entertain the reader. First, the…

The Most Dangerous Game short story paragraph Students of literature around the world should read, “The Most Dangerous Games”.They should read this short story because it had action, suspense and getting the readers into hunting. in it. For example,when Rainsford and Whitney were hoping to have some good hunting in the Amazon, Rainsford says, Hunting is, “The best sport in the world”(Connell 1). This quote means that Rainsford agrees that hunting is the best sport to do. So they are telling the…

ethnicity and even social class. Characterization happens naturally for people all over the world. Rainsford in “The Most Dangerous Game” and Montresor in “The Cask of Amontillado“ can both be characterized by their sociopathic behaviors. In the “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Cask of Amontillado” Connell and Poe use foreshadowing to characterize their protagonists. Throughout “The Most Dangerous Game”, Connell uses foreshadowing to show that Rainsford shifts from a person who cares for…

“The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford is stranded on an island with a man named General Zaroff who hunts people for fun. This fits under mystery/suspense very well, more suspense than mystery. When Rainsford is first being hunted, you never know if Zaroff is going to pop out of the bushes and kill Rainsford. Another example of suspense in “The Most Dangerous Game” would be before Rainsford becomes stranded on the island. When he is on the boat, he hears a gunshot from a nearby island and when he…

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, describes a story about a hunter being hunted. The book and movie have their similarities, but they differ on things including how the characters are shown and the scenes portrayed. The characters in the movie and book stay mostly similar and other little details about them, but those little details can be changed and a surprise of added characters not originally there in either the movie or book. In the start of the movie…

Rainsford woke up that night in a grisly sweat. Panting, he sat up in the bed that was once the man’s that he had killed. Rainsford had awoken because of the treacherous thing he had done. Why have I done this? He thought, I should have just restrained him until help came. Murder was not my intention. I committed a horrible crime. I can’t tell anybody. He told himself that it was just a nightmare, but he knew it was something more. Rainsford did not go back to sleep that night. That morning…

Do you think that you could fight of a dangerous reptile? Yeah same here. But in the stories “Sound of Thunder” and “Being Prey”. The character had to fight them off. Plumwood (The main character of “Being Prey”) fights a dangerous crocodile. Then Eckels (Main character of “Sound of Thunder”) had to go up against a dinosaur. If you want to know what happened then keep reading. The setting of the text are dangerous and deadly. The character didn’t listen to what the instructors had to say about…

Dangerous Analysis of “The Most Dangerous Game” One of the most popular sports in the country today is hunting. Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” creates a tale of life and death in which the main character, Sanger Rainsford, a famous hunter that is lost at sea, is being hunted by the estranged General Zaroff for the general’s pleasure. In Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, the author uses plot, irony, and setting to convey the theme of inhumanity. The plot of “The Most Dangerous…