Ernest Hemingway's Short Story ', 'The Most Dangerous Game'

Rainsford on the other had fell off a boat and landed on Ship Trap Island. Here on Ship Trap Island he was being hunted down by a man by the name of Zaroff. In both their cases they had no one but themselves to help them. Both of the main characters need to rise up and defeat who they are being hunted down by. In High Noon the main character Will Kane is all alone, after he asks many of the people in the town they all ask him to leave.

That's when Cheswick jams his fingers into the grate at the bottom of the pool and drowns himself. This may have been prevented if McMurphy would have stood up for Cheswick against Nurse Ratched but he didn't. Therefore this shows McMurphy has tremendous power now in the ward and Nurse Ratched knows it. That’s you can say Nurse Ratched fears McMurphy because he's not like the rest of the patients that she can control McMurphy is different. For my third and final example is how McMurphy organizes the Deep Sea Fishing trip and just needs one more man for the trip.

A dynamic character is one who changes over the course of a story after learning something extremely important. In The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, Rainsford has to undergo a difficult experience that causes him to change his thinking about being a big game hunter. When Rainsford and his crew are passing by the dreaded Ship-Trap Island, Rainsford experiences a misfortune and falls overboard the ship. He is thrown into the sea, has to swim for his life in the choppy waters, and eventually reaches Ship-Trap Island. After Rainsford arrives on Ship-Trap Island, he discovers a mansion where General Zaroff lives, the antagonist of the story.

The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell is an exciting thriller that follows the misfortunes of an American hunter that is faced with fear for his life. The hunter Mr. Sanger Rainsford is on his way to Rio De Janeiro with his good friend for a hunting trip; they pass a mysterious island and Rainsford falls from the ship and is forced to swim ashore, Rainsford meets a man named General Zaroff who has a passion for hunting, humans; he offers Rainsford a chance to survive three days as his prey, in the end, Rainsford survives long enough to confront Zaroff and kill him. In “The Most Dangers Game”, Richard Connell uses the literary terms foreshadowing, suspense, conflict, and imagery to show the reader what a human is capable of when it is faced with fear. Foreshadowing is used to advance the plot of a story by keeping a hold of the reader’s attention, but not giving everything away. Richard Connell does this in the beginning of the story when Whitney and Rainsford are on the ship talking about hunting in Rio.

When visiting Cyclopes’ Island, he is forced to save many of his men from the beasts. He retorts after the battle in these words, “‘How do you like the beating we gave you, / you damned cannibal? Eater of guests / under your roof!’” (Homer 874). Odysseus overcame this burden of saving his men, including himself, and defeated the Cyclops. He took this major responsibility in stride and escaped with many lives.

In the Most Dangerous Game a man falls off a boat, swims to an island and is taken in by General Zaroff, the owner of the island. The general proceeds to tell Rainsford that he likes to hunt men for sport and that he will be hunting Rainsford. Zaroff sends Rainsford off into the island where he will haunt him. Rainsford wins the game but Zaroff goes back to his room thinking he has won. Rainsford confronts Zaroff and sleeps in his room, we think that Rainsford has killed Zaroff somehow.

“The Most Dangerous Game” I read the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell. It is about a man named Rainsford who was on a boat and fell off. He swam to a nearby island and landed on the shore. He went exploring and discovered a mansion where a Cossack named Zaroff lived. There were hunters and huntees in the story.

In his short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell reveals the transformation of an arrogant hunter. Mr. Sanger Rainsford is a talented man who has a knack for hunting. While he and a friend are traveling for a hunting trip to Rio, Rainsford accidentally falls off the boat after hearing a gunshot in the distance. He survives and swims towards the infamous ‘Ship-Trap Island’, realizing out that there is more that meets the eye of the isolated island. After finding clues of inhabitants, Rainsford stumbles upon an enormous building and soon meets General Zaroff, eventually discovering the general’s habits and winning for his freedom off of the island.

Back to the story of the Cyclopes, Odysseus himself pushes the ship from the shore back to the sea, “A giant wave that washed the ship stern foremost back to shore. I got the longest boathook out and stood fending us off.” (9.398-401) Odysseus got a boat back to shore with all of the men in it, showing his physical strength, but what about his mental strength? Throughout the entire adventure, Odysseus’ mental ability has challenged him, but he has always had a strong love for his wife. “Day after day mu longing quickens, and my company give me no peace, but wear my heart away,” (10.195-197) telling Circe that he needs to go home, back to Persephone. Then both his mental and physical strength challenge him when Circe tells Odysseus he must go to the underworld to get home.

An exploring party, the Eldorado Exploring Expedition, arrives. They represent the greedy, reckless and cruel young men whose sole purpose is to obtain money and wealth by destroying the land. They want to The Manager’s uncle is their leader. While on his boat, Marlow overhears a conversation between the manager and his uncle who talk about Kurtz. Their opinion of him contrasts Marlow’s growing admiration for Kurtz who has been in the interior alone for more than a year.