Did rainsford change throughout the story or not
I believe that threw out the most dangerous game rainsford changed very bases on the difference between how he acts at the start and in the finish. One of the main evidence that rainsford changed is at the beginning when rainsford was talking to zaroff about what how he was hunting people rainsford said “Thank you, I’m a hunter, not a murderer.”. Then he proceeds to kill 2 people once on purpose and one by mistake. At the beginning he is discussed with zaroff for hunting people, but near the end when rainsford could have just left he went out of his way to go back and kill zaroff. Rainsford started as a laid back hunter who was very careless proof in how he does not care about the island when
After falling off his ship and forced to swim to a mysterious island, Rainsford is faced with a challenge. General Zaroff traps him in a “game” that requires Rainsford to use his skills to survive. He is hunted for three days; where he was chased, tracked down, and shot at. General Zaroff led the hunt to try to kill Rainsford. General was equipped with more firepower and help from his henchman and dogs. But even with his much greater opponent, he was able to survive. Rainsford used his many skills to defeat and kill his enemy. He used quick wit to make traps that would slow Zaroff and kill his dogs and henchman. Then he used his intelligence to escape Zaroff by swimming away, but sneaking back into his own mansion.
In the beginning of the story, Rainsford has a conversation with his friend, Whitney, about hunting animals. Rainford does not care about the animals that he hunts. He believes hunting is only a sport to kill innocent creatures. “‘Who cares how a jaguar feels?’” (1) Showing the reader exactly what he thinks of hunting. Rainsford does not understand that the animals he hunts are like the people that Zaroff hunts. They are innocent, and he is murdering them when he hunts them. Rainsford thinks that Zaroff is insane for murdering people, but Rainsford is also a murderer. When Zaroff hunts Rainsford, the protagonist realizes the terror and pain the jaguars must have felt when he hunted them. Now the roles are reversed, and Rainsford is the one being hunted. “The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. The general was saving him for another day’s sport! Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror.” (17) Rainsford has changed his feelings about hunting animals now, and he has become a better person. He now takes into account how his prey feels. His interactions with people will also be different, because instead of being extremely overconfident, he realizes that he is not perfectly adept at hunting, and everyone has feelings that matter. In conclusion, Rainsford is now more humble and less overconfident than he was when he began his
Rainsford headed off and had spent two hours making his way across a bush all the while repeating the phrase, “I must keep my nerve” (Connell 11). Rainsford tried to keep calm in a terrifying situation because he wanted to live. He was being motivated by the idea of living so he kept persevering. Rainsford had jumped into the sea to get away from the General and it had worked because later that night Rainsford snuck into the General's room and challenged him. Rainsford ultimately won the game and won the privilege of sleeping Zaroff's excellent bed, because we can infer that Rainsford killed him (Connell 15). Rainsford took a chance and jumped into the sea because he knew he wasn’t going to give up without a fight. When Rainsford showed up in his room he knew the general would not let him leave so he challenged him in order for him to stay alive, again taking a chance in order to live. Throughout the story Rainsford had changed, leading up to this moment when he won the game, stayed alive, and killed the general. In the beginning Rainsford was motivated by the great sport of hunting, but then near the end Rainford's only motivation was to stay
We are introduced to the protagonist and main character, Sanger Rainsford who is a big game hunter and a WW1 veteran. The story starts off with a conversation between Whitney and Rainsford discussing the island, so we can understand the reputation it holds.
In this story we deal with two main characters, Rainsford and Zaroff. Each of these characters considers himself, and each other civilized in each other’s worlds. The word civilized means to be more advanced at something, or your behavior towards someone. These two characters act very polite and well-mannered toward each other. Evidence from the story shows that Zaroff considers himself civilized, Rainsford considers Zaroff civilized, and Rainsford considers himself civilized.
In the story “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell when rainsford was trying to survive in the woods from being attacked by a General named Zaroff, he thought about ideas to not be track down,and traps to capture General Zaroff. It was quite hard because General Zaroff had a great technique in finding his prey and he had great skills in tracking footprints,even in the dark. Rainsford used some of his own ideas in trying to defend himself from General Zaroff,others might think Rainsford murdered Zaroff.Strongly understand that Rainsford was trying to protect himself from Zaroff because, Zaroff was trying to play some sort of game to try to kill him. Here are some reasons why he didn’t murder General Zaroff while other believe he did.
When Rainsford arrived on the island he saw a bunch of lights that came from “one [huge house]”, which tells you that the island must be more than big enough to hunt and live on for it to have a mansion on it(Connell 22). Before he arrives on the island he was talking to Whitney on the boat. When they were talking Rainsford says to him “who cares how the Jaguar feels” and that tells that he doesn't care how the prey feels and would force anything to be hunted(Connell 19). After he had finished with the generals “game”, he had found a way to sneak into the general's house and get into the general's room. When Rainsford came out from behind his hiding place he ended up killing the general and then slept in the general's bed claiming that “he had never slept in a better bed”(Connell 36). Since he went and killed the general and then slept in the dead man's bed it seems that Rainsford is no longer afraid to kill animals or
Rainsford is disgusted by Zaroff, and says, “Hunting? Great Guns, General Zaroff. This is a grisly joke,” (8). Zaroff dismisses Rainsford’s feelings and refuses to believe “that so modern and civilized a young man as you seem to be harbors romantic ideas about the value of human life,” (8). In the narrative only one of these men go through changes in their character. Rainsford is a dynamic character who goes from disregarding how the “huntee” feels, to keenly understanding their fear and pain. During the exposition of the story, Rainsford tells his hunting partner, Whitney, “Who cares how a jaguar feels?” Then, during the falling action of the story, he takes the place of a huntee, and he is able to understand what they feel. Rainsford also experiences a shift in morals considering he declares during the rising action that his experience in the war did not make him “condone cold-blooded murder” (8). In the resolution, the general says, “One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed. On guard, Rainsford.” Rainsford fights Zaroff and feeds him to the hounds,
In the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" Rainsford was guilty of cold-blooded murder when he killed General Zaroff. In the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" Rainsford is is a hunter and a well known book writer and general Zaroff is a military leader and a hunter as well. So, general Zaroff can hunt every game there is, and he got bored of them and started to hunt humans, then he bought an island and people started to call it "Ship Trap Island". So, Rainsford fell off his boat or ship and had to swim to the island where he heard gunshots. Then Rainsford met General Zaroff and had a conflict with him. Then Rainsford was being hunted and won the game then killed General Zaroff.
In the most dangerous game the author uses mood to make the reader feel scared for rainsford. In the middle of the story when rainsford was being chased by zaroff during the game. "I will not lose my nerve. I will not." This quote is saying that he will not freak out and will not get out of focus. In the beginning of the story rainsford fell off his ship
Rainsford is highly intelligent when it comes to hunting. “That Cape buffalo is the largest I ever saw, said Rainsford.” Rainsford was able to tell what type of animal it was just by looking at the Cape buffalo head by looking at it. He hunts animals all around the world so he has skills in how to hide from the animals without them noticing him until he fires his gun. “A twenty-two,” he remarked. “That’s odd. It must have been a fairly large animal too.” Rainsford was
Rainsford is an intelligent man. Early in the story, “Rainsford remembered the shots. They had come from the right, and he doggedly swam in that direction” (34). Rainsford had just fallen in the water, swam fifty feet further out, but he kept his senses in the right direction. In total darkness, Rainsford used his intelligence and intellect to reach the land. Also, I don’t think that Rainsford knew he was being sized up when Zaroff was staring at him, but when “Rainsford’s bewilderment showed in his face” (100), he quickly understood what Zaroff was leading too. Rainsford wasn’t a murderer. Sure he liked to hunt game, but he wasn’t bored as Zaroff was. Rainsford never bought into all the old tales. ‘“One superstitious sailor can taint the whole ship’s company with fear”’ (20). He never got worked up or stressed out.
Love has the power to do anything. Love can heal and love can hurt. Love is something that is indescribable and difficult to understand. Love is a feeling that cannot be accurately expressed by a word. In the poem “The Rain” by Robert Creeley, the experience of love is painted and explored through a metaphor. The speaker in the poem compares love to rain and he explains how he wants love to be like rain. Love is a beautiful concept and through the abstract comparison to rain a person is assisted in developing a concrete understanding of what love is. True beauty is illuminated by true love and vice versa. In other words, the beauty of love and all that it entails is something true.
A good thing to learn about rainsfords choice was that in total he did more right than wrong, Rainsford killed Zaroff because he knows that he will fight back and possibly kill Rainsford and more innocent humans. Rainsford did not only think about himself, he thought about what damage Zaroff has already done and what Zaroff can still do. Our society struggles to make sure that people are using their moral and ethical compasses correctly like for example, the Dakota Access Pipeline vs Standing Rock Sioux event. Some people don't care about the Native American’s water supply and think its ok to possibly contaminate the water in the future for the cause of oil, but as of now the US is saying that they will try and reroute the pipeline so it won't be able to contaminate the water supply. That decision was made by people that used their ethical and moral
If I could change the ending to the end of “The Most Dangerous Game”, I would change it so that there was more of a resolution. The story ends with the assumption that General Zaroff was fed to the hounds and Rainsford slept in his bed. But who knows, the general could still be alive. So I would change the ending so that we find out General Zaroff’s fate. I would add a part to the story where Rainsford wakes up and goes down to the dogs’ lair, and finds the half-eaten corpse of Zaroff. Although gruesome, it would make the ending much better and definite. The only thing it would really change is the ending, as it affects nothing else before this scene, but it would make Rainsford have second thoughts about if what he did was right or not. The