Richard Connell

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…

General Zaroff states "the world is made up of two classes- the hunters and the huntees." suggesting that only two types of humans roam the Earth, people with passive or aggressive personality’s. This is a global simplification of human behavior. From beginning to end Zaroff did have a considerably positive influence on Rainsford In spite of which Rainsford endured Zaroff’s agonizing wrath. This endeavor changes Rainsford’s nature but is it for the better. Primarily, Rainsford and Zaroff are…

Isolation. Terror. The dreadful feeling of being hunted. The struggle to stay alive. High Noon, a movie taking place in Old Western times where a notorious murderer comes back to town to seek revenge on the marshal. The Most Dangerous Game, a brilliant short story about a world renowned hunter falling off of his yacht and taking shore on a remote island where he finds a strange man that hunts the most cunning animal there is—humans. Although High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are different,…

When readers experience a feeling of helplessness, suspense is created. At the beginning of the story Rainsford falls off the yacht and is left in the sea. When readers realize “the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean sea was closed over his head” (15), they recognize this as a hopeless situation. Readers hope the boat will turn around and save Rainsford but know it is gone. Hoping he will not drown, readers can feel Rainsford’s desperation. Likewise, later in the story Rainsford climbs a tree to…

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…

It all started in September 30, 2002, Robert Kardashian was riding in a boat where he bumped into an island. He was confused because in all his maps the island wasn’t there. He got really suspicious and decided to explore the island. In the island there was a little cave, it was closed. Robert took a hammer and started to break the door closing the cave. When the door finally fell down, Robert went in. He found a lot of gold in that cave. He put a GPS tracker in the island and left it to call…

objected Rainsford. ‘there is one that can.’ ‘But you can’t mean–’ gasped Rainsford. ‘And why not?’ ‘I can’t believe you are serious, General Zaroff…’ ‘Why should I not be serious? I am speaking of hunting.’ ‘...what you speak of is murder!’” (Connell 5). If Rainsford hadn’t killed Zaroff,Zaroff would’ve continued to kill/hunt other people. By killing Zaroff Rainsford saved the lives of many other. Zaroff was set on hunting humans as his game and if Zaroff would’ve killed Rainsford,…

The lighting of this portrait is natural , broad light . The direction of light is coming from a 45 degree angle to the right. In the background there is part of the house, which is also lit, this could also be from the natural source of light reflecting onto it by the positioned light. The photographer has controlled the amount of shadows by the pose and the facial expression of the sitter and has used soft shadows , perhaps maybe using a diffuser to help soften these. In the portrait there is…

The Most Dangerous Game happens on Ship-Trap Island. Rainsford swims to the island subsequent to tumbling off the ship on which he is voyaging. On the island, Rainsford discovers sustenance and cabin with its sole human occupants, General Zaroff and his thug, Ivan. Zaroff, a world-renowned seeker, uncovers that he expects to chase Rainsford since he discovers chasing people most exciting. Through knowledge and cunning, Rainsford figures out how to escape Zaroff and is holding up in the General's…

humans shocked rainsford is forced to play his “game” which zarof starts to hunt him Rainsford is a very determined man he shows this in the story when rainsford remembered “the shots they came from the right he doggedly swam in that direction” (connell 2)this shows that he is a determined person by showing that rainsford was determined to find land…