Conflict In The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

Avoiding a murderer who thinks hunting humans for fun just because they were the only animal that can reason for 3 days would be hard, but Rainsford made it seem like it was just a breeze with the skill he acquired from hunting. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell tell us about a man named Rainsford who was forced to be a part of his game by general Zaroff. Richard makes us look at conflict of the story in the beginning, also he makes us look at the result of the conflict to see why he chose to do this type of conflict. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard make us look at the conflict to see his reason for choosing this type, he chose is because he wanted to show that hunting people just because they're the only animal that can “reason” is inhumane, and also to show us that what goes around come around.

Rainsford reveals a specific line that tell us why Connell decided to do this type of conflict instead of choosing any other. Rainford told general Zaroff how he felt about hunting humans because they were “big game”, “Hunting? General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder” (Connell 27). Rainsford is telling Zaroff that hunting people for fun is right neither humane. He's trying to tell Zaroff that what he thinks is fun or exciting is murder because he's killing people for the sheer excitement. Connell is trying to teach us what the difference is between hunting and murders because Zaroff was murdering people, but he saw it as he was hunting them, he gave them a “fair” chance of