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- 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 them 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 them 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 them and tried to
- hunt them 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
- them. 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
- them 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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