The most dangerous game by richard connell

After falling overboard from a yacht, Sanger Rainsford swims to a nearby island. There General Zaroff, a big-game hunter who knows of Rainsford from published accounts of his hunting snow leopards in Tibet, invites him to dinner.

Update: It's been almost five years since I read this short story as a freshman in high school and recently I read Zodiac by Robert Graysmith. Since becoming familiar with the killings the Zodiac executed, as well as the possible ones he may have committed, I wanted to reread this short story. Zodiac pretty much copies all of Zaroff's obsession with hunting humans. It's quite fascinating to read such an old short story that has hints of the psychological stamping that most serial killers have: a hatred of others he is the same race and background as Ivan and undermines his intelligence , feeling superiority, the need to dominate. It's a very interesting story, but it sets me on edge and I feel dirty reading it.

The most dangerous game by richard connell

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The Most Dangerous Game features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. By signing up you agree to our terms and privacy policy. If anyone should try to get into my house--or out of it--something extremely regrettable would occur to him.

Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition--". I hope the jaguar guns have come from Purdey's. We should have some good hunting up the Amazon.

On a yacht in the Caribbean, Sanger Rainsford is a hunter famed for his skills, preparing for a hunting trip up the Amazon in South America with his friend Whitney, who tells him about some strange superstitions involving a nearby island. That night, Rainsford hears gunshots and falls into the sea. He swims for the shore, and hears the strange cries of an animal he is unfamiliar with and realises it is being hunted. When he makes it to the shore, he collapses and falls asleep, but once he wakes he realises he is hungry and begins to search for people on the island he has washed up on. What he discovers initially baffles him. There are cartridges left over from the hunt which he heard, but the hunter was using a small gun to hunt a large animal. He knocks at the door of this chateau, and Ivan, a black-bearded giant of a man who cannot speak, opens the door to him. He goes to shoot Rainsford, who is saved when another man, General Zaroff, arrives.

The most dangerous game by richard connell

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What they don't share is the idea that Rainsford should become prey in Zaroff's boredom-induced hunting game on a secluded tropical island. With his remaining strength he dragged himself from the swirling waters. He stepped back from the quicksand a dozen feet or so and, like some huge prehistoric beaver, he began to dig. Another man was coming down the broad marble steps, an erect, slender man in evening clothes. Rutgers University Press. He cuts a complicated, twisting path through the undergrowth to confuse Zaroff and then climbs a tree to wait as darkness approaches. You'll hardly have time for a nap, I fear. He heard it again; then it was cut short by another noise, crisp, staccato. Popular pages: The Most Dangerous Game. A certain coolheadedness had come to him; it was not the first time he had been in a tight place. Popular pages: The Most Dangerous Game.

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The thing that was approaching was a man. He did not recognize the animal that made the sound; he did not try to; with fresh vitality he swam toward the sound. I exhausted their possibilities, you see. Start free trial of SparkNotes Plus. It was one of those exercises where the Professor gives you two stories and your supposed to compare them "qualitatively". The talk of Rainsford and Whitney turns to the hunt, and it is this conversation between the two men about what the jaguar does or does not feel while being stalked that lies at the heart of this tale. But may I not venture to suggest that you will find my idea of sport more diverting than Ivan's? Start your 7-day FREE trial now! His room was high up in one of the towers. Rainsford, and it is the hunt. It gives me pleasure. His relaxation is disturbed by two thoughts: the difficulty of replacing Ivan and the fact that Rainsford has escaped him. Throwing off his sack of food, Rainsford took his knife from its sheath and began to work with all his energy. Schoedsack em Then he leaped far out into the sea