The short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is about the
hunter and the hunted but later in the story it becomes ironic because it turns
into a game were the hunter becomes the hunted. It turns into a chase of
competition and of survival. Two sailors Rainsford and his partner Whitney
sailed in to the darkness of the of sea. Their purpose was to hunt, they called
it the greatest sport. They were hunters and headed to the Amazon to hunt
vicious animals such as Jaguars, and tigers. They sailed to an island called
Ship-Trap Island. Sailors feared this island and had curious dread of such a
scarry place. The sky was filled with darkness when suddently he heard Three gun
shots that were fired, and heard
again and again. Then he heard a scream
while smoking a pipe when suddently the pipe fell and as he tried to reach for
it he whent down into the sea were the waves swallowed his screams. Nobody could
have heard him as the ocean swallowed his screams and the only chance of
survival was to swim. Rainsford swam towards the screams and ended up in the
Island. He walked on the shoreline and later found a place that looked like a
mansion. There he met General Zaroff who bought the island to hunt. He was
indeed a sporstman who invented a new sensation of the hunting game. His game
was to train those men who's ships were wrecked and ended up in that island, and
then provide
with food and a knife for three days.
Once they were trained they were led out into the island as a head start
while Zaroff chase after
and tried to hunt
down. If They survived
during those three days they had won the game and they were let free but in the
other case if they were found they were killed. Zaroff never lost the game so if
one of the men being hunted was about to survive he would release the hounds to
chased after
. Rainsford rested and the next morning had a dispute with
Zaroff and told him that this hunting style was to brutal. In this argument
Zaroff got mad and at this point in the story Raisford became the hunted. He was
let loose into the island were he was to prepare himself for the most dangerous
game of his life, the survival of the fittest. The first night was panicking and
worried Rainsford as he hidded on top of a tree. The next day he set up a trap
but Zaroff did'nt fall for it and he almost got caught when Zaroff was right
next to the bushes were Rainsford was hiding. the last day he set up a pitfall
and while Zarroff and his servant were serching, his servant unfortunately fell
into the pit. Rainsford got out of the Island trying to escape by swimming out
into the ocean and swam back to the mansion and when Zaroff returned Rainsford
switched the game around and proposed him to become the hunted. I like this
short story because Rainsford was wise in making traps wich allowed Zaroff to
take more time trying to find him and did
successfully wich helped him
survive those three days. I also liked how the story ended it was kind of ironic
the way Rainsfored changed the game around and became the hunter and Zaroff
became the hunted. I thought it was a good idea because this way Zaroff would
realise that his game of hunting people was wrong and this would teach him a
lesson.
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