Rainsford wakes up the following morning. Everything in the house is quiet‚ and he feels alone. Rainsford gets up out of bed and he feels an ache in his neck from something hard in the pillow. He lifted it up to find a knife with blood stains sitting under the pillow. Rainsford didn’t know what to do next‚ but he knew last night was one of the best he’s ever had. As he sits in the dining room and eats out of fine china‚ he thinks he might as well give hunting humans a try since killing two the last
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Sanger Rainsford In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell‚ Sanger Rainsford is shown as intelligent‚ brave‚ and competitive. Rainsford is shown to be intelligent in the story when he climbed into a big tree to sleep. He chose the tree because he needed to stay away from General Zaroff. “A big tree with outspread branches was nearby… he climbed up into the crotch and stretched out on one of the broad limbs‚ after a fashion‚ rested” (Connell 75). This quote shows that Rainsford is intelligent
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Caden Sherman Rainsford Character Sketch In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell there is a young hunter named Rainsford who is well known in the hunting community. He falls off a yacht and ends up on an island. There he meets a man with a heart colder than his own‚ where Rainford becomes the hunted. He undergoes a great internal change on the perspective of human and animal life. Rainsford is young wealthy man who loves to hunt‚ and is good at it‚ he
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very excellent bed. On guard‚ Rainsford.”. . . Rainsford took one look at the bed that was beside the two and decided that he would be the last man standing and he would the one sleeping in that bed tonight. Without thinking he quickly threw struck the general with a quick jab in the face before shoving him off balance onto the floor. However‚ the General recovered much quicker than Rainsford anticipated and he was up and in his fighting stance quicker than Rainsford could bat an eye. “It takes
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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
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himself civilized‚ Rainsford considers Zaroff civilized and Rainsford considers himself civilized. First Zaroff makes Rainsford think they are civilized by saying “We do our best to preserve the amenities of civilization here...Do you think the champagne has suffered from it’s long ocean trip? (pg.45)This makes Rainsford think that he has products and food shipped to the Island regularly and more people than him are civilized there.Zaroff finds more than one way to trick Rainsford. Zaroff was able
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“One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in the excellent bed. On guard Rainsford.” When Rainsford awoke from his slumber‚ he reluctantly climbed out of the extravagant bed. He could see out the window that the sun was barely up. He found some clothing that previously belonged to General Zaroff in the wonderfully crafted dresser to the left of the bed. Rainsford changed into these clothes and found a wastebasket in the corner of the room to dispose of his old clothes
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“It is a very great pleasure and honour to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford‚ the celebrated hunter‚ into my home.” These are the first words spoken to Rainsford by General Zaroff upon his arrival on Ship-trap Island. Formally greeting Rainsford gives Zaroff an appearance of a proper gentleman; well-educated and well-mannered. But by his dark eyes‚ military moustache‚ and strong face you can also tell that he is obviously a strong leader and military general. Behind his high cheek bones‚ white hair and
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Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell the two main characters have the same mentality but different point of views on killing. Sanger Rainsford is an intelligent‚ professional “Big Game Hunter” that hunts a large variety of animals. General Zaroff is a sociopathic “Dangerous Game Hunter” that finds great interest in hunting human beings. In this story‚ Sanger Rainsford hunted animals which was proven rationalized where as General Zaroff hunted humans which was proven unjustified. A numerous amount
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the game‚ Rainsford gets a sense of what it is like being the prey getting chased down. In fact‚ Zaroff smiled when he came to where Rainsford was‚ which caused him to become very nervous. Thoughts kept running through Rainsford’s mind about “why the general [had] smiled...and turned back” (Connell 33). Rainsford felt he was being strung along and trapped into similar situations as an animal. Rainsford felt that he would be caught by Zaroff‚ so he did not make any movement. Rainsford had a feeling
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