Mickie Most

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be hunted? In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Rainsford a big game hunter falls off a boat after he hears gunshots at night and gets to an island called Ship Trap Island where a man named General Zaroff challenges him to a game where General Zaroff hunts him. Rainsford shows that he is courageous, adventurous, and smart. Rainsford is an adventurous person he likes to hunt big game and travel. Rainsford travels all around the…

Does anyone really know what it is like to be the hunted instead of the hunter? In the action packed thriller “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the main character Rainsford, a professional hunter, finds himself stranded on an island with a psychopathic hunter named General Zaroff. Zaroff has hunted all over the world looking for more and more difficult prey until eventually, he was far too experienced to the point that no animals could ever compete with him. To quench his thirst for…

In 1924, the frightening story “The Most Dangerous Game” was written. In 1967, “Gilligan’s Island” produced an episode based on the story called “The Hunter”. Though there were many things in common, there were some major differences. In the story, the cold-blooded General Zaroff had always hunted humans on the island and went up against the also skilled hunter Rainsford, but in “Gilligan’s Island” the hunter Kincaid suddenly gets the idea to hunt the speedy and clumsy Gilligan when he arrives…

Danger. Murder. Violence. Misery. What do these things have in common? Their all themes in The Most Dangerous Game and The Sniper. The Most Dangerous game is about a man named Rainsford who washes up on an island only to find a hunter, General Zaroff, who hunts the most dangerous and conniving thing possible, human. He faces many challenges, but overcomes them and defeats the General. The Sniper is a short story about a man who has a challenge to kill his enemy, he must shoot down the other…

I am reading I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga, and I am on page 101. This book is about 17 year old boy named Jazz who lives the opposite of an average life. Three years ago his father was arrested for the murder of over 30 people. In this journal i will be predicting G I predict Jazz will become s serial killer Y Jazz was raised to be a killer R Jazzes father was a killer R He was taught how to kill R he us good at manipulating people Y Jazz often thinks about killing R Jazz…

Conflict in “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford is a hunter who is put in a tight situation by the antagonist, General Zaroff, who forces him to make decisions. These decisions all come with some type of conflict. Richard Connell provides many different conflicts in “The Most Dangerous Game,” some including: person versus person, person versus himself, and person versus society. The main conflict in “The Most Dangerous Game” would be between Rainsford and Zaroff. The first time conflict arises…

The most intelligent, yet barbaric and aggressive character ever created, from my viewpoint and/or in my opinion, is in The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Cornell. This character is known as General Zaroff. This character enjoys hunting human beings on his island due to loss of interest of hunting animals. Human beings that stumble upon his island have to play by his rules and are challenged to see if they can survive three days while being hunted by the master of hunting. General Zaroff…

In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford washes ashore a mysterious island habited by the strange General Zaroff. The General lives lavishly on the island and believes himself a superior being because he hunts humans for sport. Rainsford is welcomed and greeted, however later, the General hunts Rainsford but loses and Rainsford kills him. Through Zaroff and the island, Connell shows that even as civilized humans, humanity itself can never truly be maintained as it can be too…

Suspense is a state of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety. Most people crave suspense in literature, movies, or other forms of entertainment. Author Richard Connell uses suspense in the form of foreshadowing in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” to pull readers in and create a certain interest and involvement in the characters and the story. In the beginning of the story Rainsford and his…

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.” -Ernest Hemingway. In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, General Zaroff has hunted everything in every situation that he can imagine. He found that animals are not fun to exploit anymore. He had in many situations outsmarted and out done his pray so, he creates a new game where he hunts humans. They are smarter and have the ability to reason.…