As states by Zaroff "But no animal can reason, objected Rainsford. My dear fellow, said the general, there is one that can." (Conell). Through this quote one can infer that Zaroff is suggesting that he is hunting humans but at first he never comes out and says it. Zaroff is also extremely cold hearted.…
The general’s new game for hunting is hunting people. The General wants to hunt Rainsford. Rainsford will have to use his clever thinking and his skills as a hunter and has to be sly about what kind of traps he makes. Rainsford is obviously a skillful hunter because he has a written a book about hunting. .General…
Thinking back to all of his experiences of a hunter, Rainsford uses his knowledge to take advantage of the fact that he has made a Burmese tiger pit before. Rainsford does what no other human being has done before; using his rationality and sheer logic, he survives Zaroff’s hunt, the most difficult situation he has ever been through before. Therefore, by examining the way Rainsford handles tough situations, the reader can infer that Rainsford is a man of…
Can you imagine being hunted by another human being? For Sanger Rainsford, a hunter from New York, this crazy scenario has come true. The short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, portrays Rainsford’s struggle to survive. When he falls off of a boat, Rainsford swims to a mysterious island, where he meets a man named General Zaroff. Zaroff likes to hunt humans because he is not challenged by hunting animals.…
Rainsford was a hunter on his way to Rio for some jaguar hunting. He seemed like a very carefree person, completely unconcerned about legends and superstitions. He was very level-headed. The General Zaroff also seemed very level-headed. He was very proud of his accomplishments and thought himself to be the best hunter.…
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.…
Rainsford was on the boat talking to whitney because whitney was saying animals do have feelings but rainsford disagree “who cares about how a jaguar feels”(). Rainsford was so attached to hunting he doesn't seem to care about what the animals feel. Soon thereafter Rainsford had set a trap for Zarroff, so Rainsford wouldn't die. Zarroff was running when rainsford trap had been set off “the knife driven by recoil of spinning tree had not wholly failed”(235). Rainsford feared for his life since he was the one getting hunted not someone or something else.…
Rainsford is then invited to rest at Zaroff’s home, he then proceeds to be invited to dinner with Zaroff. At dinner Zaroff tells Rainsford of his many hunting expeditions, and how hunting has begun to bore…
Sitting in a tree waiting for Zaroff to expose himself, suddenly he spotted Zaroff walking through the jungle. Becoming more and more anxious by the second, Rainsford realized that Zaroff was right below him. Trying to lay as still as possible so he wouldn’t get spotted, Zaroff began to scan tree and suddenly, looked up at him and had a huge smile take over his face. “The general was playing with him! The general was saving him for another day’s sport!”…
The Most Dangerous Game Essay In the short story ‘’The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford was justified in killing General Zaroff. Rainsford is a hunter who was on a yacht. When he fell off of the yacht, the closest place was the ShipTrap Island. On the way (as he was swimming to the island), he heard a gunshot which made him swim harder & faster.…
The story "The most Dangerous Games" rotates around two characters that are assuming the part of hunter and prey. The plot of this story is how a hunter named Rainsford gets trapped in an island after he falls off his yacht and meets another character named General Zaroff. The General is a past middle age Russian Cossack with a costly house on an island called Ship-Trap and they start to share interests and beasts they have hunted. General Zaroff shows through his actions his immorality by willing to hunt humans for fun. Although he shows a savage side of him, he still acts civilized in the beginning and offers his guests food and shelter for a day.…
The reader first feels worried when the general describes the ‘new animals’ he hunts. After Zaroff reveals his new animal to be a human, Rainsford immediately argues that what Zaroff is doing is cold-blooded murder. The general says, “‘It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason… I refuse to believe that so modern and civilized a young man as you seem to be harbors romantic ideas about the value of human life.’” (9-10). Zaroff’s insanity makes the reader wonder what will happen to Rainsford, therefore conveying a feeling of apprehension to the audience.…
Eventually, Rainsford had to make another move so that he is not found. “Rainsford’s impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther, but he saw that the General’s right hand held something metallic—a small automatic pistol.” Zaroff had discovered where Rainsford had been hiding. His first instinct was to kill Rainsford with a pistol as if he were an animal being hunted. Rainsford knew no matter how much he hurled General was not going to let him win.…
You can tell that the general is upset that Rainsford doesn’t want to hunt but he is nice about it knowing that he will make him hunt. Zaroff overcomes Rainsford’s opinions on hunting by obeying his wishes and not fighting back, “Rainsford shook his head. " No, general," he said. "I will not hunt."…
Rainsford also finds that this “game” of hunting humans does not rest upon him how hunting animals would. The conversation when Rainsford comes to understand that Zaroff hunts humans. He is shocked, and this is how it goes: “‘It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason.' ‘But no animal can reason,’ objected Rainsford. ‘My dear fellow,’ said the general, ‘there is one that can.’…