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Hunting Is Dangerous In The Most Dangerous Game

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In the novel, The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell expresses that hunting, as a game is immoral and is played for fun. Connell also illustrates that hunting in particular is not a good thing to do. The author of this novel has shown that hunting is a dangerous game through one of the main characters, General Zaroff, who is crazy, ill and thinks of hunting humans as a sport. An expert American hunter “Sanger Rainsford” was on a yatch cruising in the Caribbean Sea, he fall down into the sea, on hearing the bullet shots. He then managed to swim across the sea and reached island shore. He heard the cries of animals that were being hunted on the island. After taking rest, Rainsford began to look for people on the Island. He felt curiosity upon …show more content…

The author described this gigantic, mute, dumbed man as Ivan. Author showed Ivan as a cruel and brutal man, just like General Zaroff. He was assistant of General Zaroff. He really enjoyed in murdering and torturing helpless captives. Ivan was a Russian soldier to the Russian Czar in 1900s. Ivan tried to shot Rainsford but General Zaroff denied Ivan to shoot him. Zaroff seemed to be more civilized in both manner and behavior than Ivan. He invited him on dinner and gave neat clothes and apologized him for the ill manner of Ivan. On the meal, Zaroff told Rainsford about his passion for hunting. Hunting of big animals that were imported. Rainsford understood that Zaroff hunt humans instead of animals. That night was troublesome for …show more content…

He took supplies and left the chateau. He was determined to defeat Zaroff. He had a three hour head start. He used to double back on his trails many times until he felt Zaroff was not following his path. He hid himself in a tree. Zaroff, however, came right to him but choose not to look up in the tree and find him. Rainsford realized that Zaroff had been playing a game with him. When Zaroff had walked off, Rainsford steeled his nerve and moved on. Rainsford decided to set a trap for Zaroff. If Zaroff trapped in it, a dead tree would fall on him. Soon Zaroff's foot sat off the trap, but he leaped back and only his shoulder was injured. He congratulated Rainsford and told him he was returning to the chateau to get his wound looked at but he would be back. Rainsford fled through the forest. He came to a patch of quick sand known as The Death Swamp where he built another trap. He fashioned a pit with sharp stakes inside it and a mat of forest weed and branches to cover the opening. Unfortunately Zaroff's dogs sprang the trap, however, and ruined Rainsford's

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