Comparing General Zaroff And Rainsford's Choices

Jacob McLaren Professor Vanno ENC 1102 01 February 2018 The Most Dangerous Game Narration Essay The short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, is about a hunter, named Rainsford, that gets stranded on an island with a hunter that hunts people, named General Zaroff. Rainsford must survive three nights in the island, while Zaroff hunts him, but he survives and kills Zaroff. The novel is third person limited to Rainsford’s knowledge and point of view.

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell brings up that point that Roland Barthes said, “literature is the question minus the answer.” The Most Dangerous Game is a story about two men named Zaroff and Rainsford who both love hunting because of the thrill. Connell’s story brings up the question, is killing an animal all that different from killing a human. When morals are brought into the understanding of the passage Zaroff and Rainsford can be seen equally evil. Zaroff is seen as immoral and sinful while Rainsford is seen as completely normal.

people are in pain. In the text this is shown when it says “he saw the lean figure of General Zaroff just ahead of him Rainsford made out another figure.. It was the giant Ivan. General Zaroff was still on his but Ivan was not” (pg.53). This shows General Zaroff is selfish because he made I van go first which had killed him.

“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is about how a man name Rainsford who is the protagonist in the story and the dynamic character . Rainsford met this other man named Zaroff who is the antagonist in the story. Both of the men are hunters but Zaroff likes to hunt men and not animals. Rainsford does not like the idea of that and does not want to stay on the island but Zaroff would not let him.

Throughout this journal, Zaroff can be characterized as confident and wacky. First, he can be considered as a confident man. In addition, the introduction of himself to Rainsford can be a detail by his speaking tone. Also, how he collaborates with Rainsford such as shake hands is a detail too. For example, “Another man was coming down the broad marble steps, an erect, slender man in evening clothes.

The Most Dangerous Game     In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” two characters, Rainsford and General Zaroff Somehow meet after Rainsford falls off of his yacht and after these two characters meet General Zaroff explains how he plays a game of hunting humans and somehow forces Rainsford to a piece in this particular game. In Richard Connell’s Fictional story, The Most Dangerous game He Demonstrates two characters where one in particular is faced with a difficult task and is able to overcome it and through these events both characters revealed traits in which showed who their true characters were. Both Characters, General Zaroff and Rainsford revealed different character traits through events in the story as it progressed. General Zaroff proved himself to be a clever, smart, skilled, evil person while, Rainsford expressed himself to be intelligent and smart-minded when it came to his encounters with Zaroff. Many events in the story allowed the main characters to show their true attributes.

I believe that the title of the story “The Most Dangerous Game“ written by Richard Connell is linked to us as human beings, and that the title is saying that humans are the most dangerous game. For example in The Most Dangerous Game we learn that on the night Rainsford meets general Zaroff we get a lot of information about Zaroff 's ideal game to hunt. "I wanted the ideal animal to hunt," explained the general. "So I said, `What are the attributes of an ideal quarry? ' And the answer was, of course, `It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason."

In this essay on the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, the audience will read about the story of how Sanger Rainsford survived three very suspenseful days. They will also meet the very skillful and vicious hunter General Zaroff. They will also read about Sanger Rainsford’s very dangerous traps that he set up in those three days. Sanger Rainsford is a very cultured hunter as the audience will see because none of the traps that he built are American. An average human being would have most likely built some sort of trap that was mainly based from something that was invented in the U.S. Sanger Rainsford has been very worthy to surviving against the very skilled General Zaroff.

Because Rainsford possesses great hunting skills, he is able to defeat Zaroff in his own game. For example, his hunting abilities aid in his victory when he creates a Malay mancatcher, which, according to Zaroff, “not many men know how to make” (Connell 13). This proves that his hunting knowledge is superior to that of other men and a victory over Zaroff would not be possible without this knowledge, especially since no other man has won the game. Another example would be when he creates an intricate trail, similar to that of a fox, in which he claims, “only the devil himself could follow that complicated trail through the jungle after dark” (Connell 12). Since Zaroff did not find Rainsford using the trail, this proves that Rainsford’s creative

The next conflict introduced is man vs man. However Man vs. Man is the most obvious conflict. Rainsford and General Zaroff are fighting for different goals, Zaroff is fighting for fun and amusement and Rainsford is fighting for his survival and his chance to leave the island. Throughout the story, they argue on morals and belief, and in a deadly game. In the text it states "let me congratulate you.

In “The Most Dangerous Game” Connell uses indirect characterization to show that Rainsford is selfish,humane,and highly skilled. The reader gets a better physical description of General Zaroff. There is not a physical description of Rainsford. General Zaroff Is more fully characterized,Richard Connell,planned for Rainsford to be the dynamic character. Zaroff is physically portrayed more than Rainford and his belonging are better depicted.

It's amazing how two people that have much in common can have totally different personalities. In Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game", Rainsford, a skillful hunter, is to go through many struggles against General Zaroff, his opponent with which he shares many similarities, in order for him to win a hunting contest while proving himself to be the owner of an amazing, unbreakable personality. Through his actions during a game of hunt against a much overconfident hunter, Rainsford proves to have the traits of an honorable man. At the beginning of the story, Rainsford bravely arrives, after falling from a yacht, to the shore of an isolated island. The latter is called ‘Ship Trap’ since it is known to have a bad reputation.