The Most Dangerous Game

Rainsford is supposed to be a man of the world, a great adventurer, a fearless hunter, and so forth. And yet he looks like an idiot when he allows himself to fall off a yacht in what is known to be...

A bit of context is important first. Rainsford is running away from Zaroff. We are in the middle of the hunt. As Zaroff is making gains, Rainsford decides to hide in a tree. At first, Rainsford...

General Zaroff tells Rainsford that the men are capsized in their ships by an act of God or he helps it along with the push of a button that causes flashing lights. This is supposed to warn...

The answer to this question is dependent on individual reader opinion. Readers could absolutely side with Zaroff, Rainsford, or some other variation. Biologically speaking, there isn't a...

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, people who refuse to be hunted are beaten to death by Ivan, a giant of a man who used to whip people to death for the Czar of...

Richard Connell's short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," is set in the Caribbean Sea near the fictional Ship-Trap Island. The protagonist, Sanger Rainsford, is a big-game hunter on route to his...

During their initial dinner, General Zaroff tells Rainsford that he has become bored with hunting animals because he always gets his quarry. The general says that animals simply cannot compete with...

The quick answer to this is that the author shows that the sea is calm by saying that it is "as smooth as a plate glass window." This is a simile because the author is trying to describe how smooth...

As far as place is concerned, the story progresses through a variety of locations around and on what is known by sailors as 'Ship Trap Island' in the Caribbean Sea - a place feared by them. The...

First, it was not General Zaroff who uttered the quote in question from "The Most Dangerous Game": It was Sanger Rainsford, who was being hunted by Zaroff, who, trying to calm his nerves, nervously...

Zaroff knows who Rainsford is because Zaroff is a well read individual. Perhaps Zaroff isn't a well rounded reader, but he does admit that he is a voracious reader when it comes to books about...

In Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game," Rainsford is the one who uses the word "superstitious," not Whitney. Whitney uses the word "lore" to explain the feeling of the "poisonous" air that he...

One conclusion that seems to be almost implied by the story's ending is that Rainsford will become just like Zaroff, taking his place and becoming like him. After all, he has already become the...

"The Most Dangerous Game" is certainly a title that has multiple levels of meaning. Ultimately, the word "game" here can be interpreted according to two separate definitions. It be used both in...

Early in the story, the narrator establishes in the conversation between Rainsford and Whitney that they are both experienced big-game hunters; they explicitly recall hunting moose, as well as...

A thesis statement has to address the prompt in a simple, direct, and clear way. From the information you have provided, I am guessing you are trying to write a thesis statement about the ending...

"The Most Dangerous Game" is a short story written by Richard Connell, in which a man named Sanger Rainsford finds himself trapped on an island, being hunted by a fierce predator—another man....

General Zaroff stocks his island with game from ships that run aground on the giant rocks. General Zaroff is a diabolical man, who got so bored with hunting that he decided that no animal could...

Foreshadowing in a piece of literature is when the author provides hints or clues to suggest what may take place later in the story. In the short story "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell...

During Zaroff's first meal with Rainsford, he demonstrates confidence in his hunting abilities by explaining to Rainsford that hunting has "ceased to be what you call 'a sporting proposition'"...

In the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Edward Connell, an enthusiastic hunter named Rainsford falls off a yacht as it is passing by a forbidding place called Ship-Wreck Island. In...

Sanger Rainsford possesses numerous positive character traits that allow him to survive three days on Ship-Trap Island while the maniacal General Zaroff hunts him like prey during the most...

Zaroff is described through the eyes of Rainsford, the narrator of the story, and also through his own dialogue and description. Though Rainsford's first impression of Zaroff is that he is...

The setting of "The Most Dangerous Game" is very important to the tone and mood for the story. Given that the story takes place on a relatively unknown island, Ship-Trap Island, only rumors...

As an experienced hunter, Sanger Rainsford is in possession of any number of survival skills. First of all, Rainsford is in great physical shape because, after falling off the ship, he can swim far...

"The Most Dangerous Game" can be seen as either escapist or interpretive literature, or an example of both together. On the surface, it is a thrilling tale of two men pitted against each other in...

The Most Dangerous Game is a short story, and so must get to the point quickly to avoid losing the reader. Setting up the character of Rainsford, master game hunter, we find him on a ship with a...

After Rainsford hears of General Zaroff’s game, he is horrified. He calls the general a murderer. The general considers the hunt a very civilized game. He tells Rainsford, “Dear me, what a...

The answer to this question leans heavily on the matter of characterization. In "The Most Dangerous Game," Rainsford is characterized as the good guy, and he engages in a man-to-man conflict with...

I believe to "live life in a minute" means that at a time of serious jeopardy or in a life threatening situation, you live all the best or most precious moments of your life in an...

Richard Connell's suspenseful and suprising short story "The Most Dangerous Game" is, indeed, replete with symbolism. Ironically, the jaguar about which Sanger Rainsford speaks so superciliously...

Both conversations parallel each other and concern the relationship between the hunter and prey. In Rainsford's conversation with Whitney at the beginning of the story, Rainsford states that...

On the surface, these two characters could not be more different. Ivan is a great, hulking brute of a man with a great beard. He is also incapable of speech as a deaf-mute and gives off a grotesque...

A Malay mancatcher is made from a dead tree resting on a living one. In this story, Rainsford finds himself accidentally trapped on an island with a homicidal maniac, General Zaroff. Zaroff got...

Borsch is a Ukrainian beet soup often with sausage, potatoes, onions, and cabbage in it. The beets give it a blood red appearance. The significance of General Zaroff eating it when he and Rainsford...

The Gothic elements of the short story create a blood-chilling, eerie mood. From the gargoyle doorknocker to the animal heads as trophies on the wall, the story reeks with elements of the grotesque...

Rainsford hears what he believes to be gunshots as he reclines aboard a yacht on his way to hunt jaguars in the jungles of South America. Just as he reflects on how genuinely "dark" the night is,...

In Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game," while Rainsford converses with General Zaroff, he notices that the general has "the face of an aristocrat" and "a cultivated voice." At the dinner...

The word "droll" means amusing. Sanger Rainsford is shocked by General Zaroff's declaration that he imports men to the island so that he can hunt them and kill them. When Rainsford tells Zaroff...

General Zaroff is uncivilized because he lures unsuspecting ships to his island with lights that are supposed to indicate safe passage, but do not. Like the Sirens in The Oddysey, Zaroff lures...

Richard Connell takes his readers on a journey into the depths of the human psyche in his short story "The Most Dangerous Game." The story opens on a yacht in the Caribbean as Sanger Rainsford and...

In short, Rainsford denies the existence of feelings in the animals he hunts because he is convinced that since animals allegedly have no reasoning, their lives have lesser value, and there is no...

General Zaroff only gives Rainsford a small supply of food and a hunting knife during the most dangerous game. Rainsford is also given a three-hour head start and must survive on Ship-Trap Island...

You are correct in stating that the main external conflict doesn't begin until the story is about halfway done. That main external conflict is Rainsford's fight for survival against Zaroff. I...

During Rainsford's first meal with General Zaroff, the general elaborates on his affinity for hunting and mentions that he has hunted nearly every exotic, dangerous animal on the planet. The...

General Zaroff is classist and racist. A racist is a person who considers those of other races inferior. Zaroff is a racist because he considers people of other races fodder for hunting. A...

Mounted on the walls of the enormous chateau of General Zaroff in Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” are the heads of animals the general has killed during his myriad hunting...

In the story, the General says that a human being is the ideal animal to hunt. He maintains that a human being possesses three traits that an animal does not. First, the human being has the...

Your map should show Ship-Trap Island in the Caribbean Sea. It will have jagged rocks surrounding the island, a jungle that covers the island, a high bluff near the middle of the jungle with a...

I assume that you are talking about what happens very early in the hunt for Rainsford. This is the part where Rainsford has first run away and tried to leave a confusing trail. Then he has...