The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

In Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, Richard Connell uses Rainsford as a dynamic character to show the reader that hunting is immoral. At the start, Rainsford and Whitney are sailing through the Caribbean on a yacht coursed to Rio for a jaguar hunting trip, when they start a heating conversation about hunting. Rainsford clearly stating his opinion said, “The world is made up of two classes- the hunters and the huntees. Luckily you and I are the hunters.”(14) Rainsford starts our story with the opinion that hunting is an activity made for the hunters of the world. Due to the fact that people are the hunters, it is okay to hunt animals. Rainsford uses the word luckily which foreshadows his future as a hunter and