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“Splendid! One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed. On guard, Rainsford.”... “He had never slept in a better bed”. (Connell 41) There were some of last few sentences of the story provided a somewhat cryptic ending. This meant that Rainsford had beat Zaroff. Since Zaroff was beat by Rainsford he won his bed. This also means Rainsford has won the hunt and is finally free and does not have to worry about hunting humans or ever being the prey again. The ending didn't tell you a lot, but told you some main things so you know and can put together with what happened next. All of these quotes explain how Rainsford outsmarted Zaroff and won “The Most Dangerous Game.”…
In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” Sanger Rainsford is hard hearted and does not care about the animals that he pursues; however, when Rainsford is being hunted he realizes the fear of the prey, and his perspective shifts, therefore, he gains empathy for the quarry.…
Condredge Holloways is from a small town in Huntsville, Alabama where he was born and raised by Dorothy Holloway and Condredge Holloway Sr. He also attended Lee high school in Huntsville, where he was the star athlete. He was the starting point guard in basketball, the starting short stop in baseball, and the star Quarterback in football. He received full ride scholarship in all three sports. His mother was hired to work at Marshall Space Flight Center, where she became the first African American employee at NASA the sky was the limit for Condredge Holloway, but his impact on the SEC (South Eastern Conference) and college football at that.…
In the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, Rainsford, the main character, goes through hard times because he is forced to transition from a hunter to a huntee, then back to a hunter. As he uses his many strengths and his knowledge from both perspectives, he creates a plan and ends up beating the whole game despite all of his conflicts. In all likelihood, this wouldn't happen in real life, but we can still learn from him. Throughout the story, the reader witnesses how Rainsford's character struggles with different conflicts with his enemy,…
As he is he has to survive forcefully, by a hunter, General Zaroff, who hunts people, for more of a thrill in hunting. Rainsford has to go up head to head with him, and has to beat him in his own game and he is determined to do so, because he doesn’t give up easily and he knows how to survive. Another…
Rainsford begins to plot down what he will do to win the game, since General Zaroff has not lost any of them before, “The softness of the earth had gave him an idea” (45). In addition, General Zaroff has never lost to anybody, Rainsford gets ideas and plans to kill General Zaroff with different methods. Obviously, everyone in life has thoughts of giving up in a race or battle, “I will not lose my nerve. I will not” (43). Rainford, at this point, can not give up and will do about anything to win and defeat him. Consequently, Rainsfords motivation is to attempt to kill…
In this case, Rainsford had a more cunning and direct approach to his problem, even though he was mostly nervous and somewhat fearful. As Rainsford hid from Zaroff as best as he can, he also laid traps down for the Cossack. Even though most of his traps did not manage to get Zaroff, Rainsford did not give up and flee. Eckels was calm at the start of the quest, but became increasingly nervous as he thought about the dangers that were to come. He let his nervous personality take over, and when it was too much, he decided to give up. Eckels also let his selfishness get to him, which made his hunting companions deal with the Tyrannosaurus Rex while Eckels went back to the time machine. While both hunters were indeed frightened and nervous, the main difference was Rainsford’s ability to suppress his fear and let his instinct guide him, which he demonstrated by telling himself, “I must keep my nerve. I must keep my nerve,” (165). That showed that Rainsford had an actual way of telling himself to control his personality and his emotions at a critical moment. Eckels tried suppressing the same fears to a certain extent, but gave up and fled from the problem. All these mixed emotions and traits ultimately determine how well their quest goes and where they will end…
People’s characteristics and actions can determine what will happen to them. This is true in Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Rainsford’s key characteristics such as his creativeness, toughness, and moral values are crucial to his survival.…
Rainsford is at first very obstinate but through his experiences with Zaroff throughout the story he grows and understands how it really feels to be hunted and he gains empathy for the animals. We see this throughout his actions during the hunt. Rainsford starts to feel genuine fear and terror as he waits to see if he will make it through the day, we see this expressed once he starts to hear the hounds on page 78. Only one page later on page 79 the author tells us Rainsford now understands how an animal at bay feels. By the end we can infer he no longer sees hunting as a game, but as cruel entertainment. Throughout the story we see Rainsford exhibit very knowledgeable acts for example, on page 64 he shows his knowledge in weaponry when he finds…
Fear is a primal human emotion. It drives us to do things, or not do things, and generally keeps us safe. In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford is neither a very relatable nor believable character. He remains confident after he gets tricked multiple times, he is too analytical of the situations he finds himself in, he doesn’t and he doesn’t seem to have very much fear about being hunted by the madman Zaroff like wild game. He also does not seem to be too skeptical of a well cultured, master sportsman, living on an unmarked island who wants to invite him into his home to stay.…
In the beginning of the film, Rainsford and the general start off on the same foot. They are alike. As the film continues, the general differs in his character. He transitions into a cruel and dark figure and loses the softer side of himself. For Rainsford, he learns to become brave. At first, Rainford is seen, experienced in fear and the struggle to survive. His feelings are more sensitive when he undergoes and internal change of the preys feelings. He learns to develop a stronger sense of humor and becomes more…
Perhaps one of the reasons that “The Most Dangerous Game” is still read to this day may be because of the ambiguous ending that this short story has. The way the story is left off leads the reader to many different conclusions as to what happened. Perhaps the two most common inferences would be that either Rainsford realizes that he is becoming like Zaroff, or Rainsford realizes that he is nothing like Zaroff and takes comfort in this. There is much evidence that supports both of these theories.…
The narrator’s point of view in the story is 1st person. The narrator describes the feelings and ideas of himself. He is described in words like I, we, and me. An example from the story are “Maybe a book of those rules you give me and JB before each of our games.”…
Setting is often used to create a canvas on which to paint the art that is literature. In The Most Dangerous Game, the author utilises this element to explore the skills of the characters, and their traits. For example this passage demonstrates how skills are demonstrated from setting “Following the trail with the sureness of a bloodhound came General Zaroff. Nothing escaped those searching black eyes, no crushed blade of grass, no bent twig, no mark, no matter how faint, in the moss. So intent was the Cossack on his stalking that he was upon the thing Rainsford had made before he saw it. His foot touched the protruding bough that was the trigger.” (Glencoe 30). As seen in this example, the author again reiterates the current theme shown in “The Most Dangerous Game” by employing the literary element of setting to reveal the level of variance in style between the two hunters, while still having equal skill, for example Rainsford has a sort of precaution and fidelity, while General Zaroff has an aggressive meticulousness which perfectly compliments the murderous nature of the russian…
1. William Faulkner brings this game to life to many people that have only seen it on television by using metaphors which relate it to other ideas that people may be more likely to have knowledge about which could help them envision it and feel as if the reader is actually there. An example of how he uses metaphors is how he compares the motion and speed of the game to “the frantic darting of the weightless bugs which run of the surface of stagnant pools” and then to “a kind of kaleidoscopic whirl like a child’s toy”. (620)…