The most dangerous game by richard connell

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.

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The most dangerous game by richard connell

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I don't remember what the second story was, I found this one vastly superior In other projects.

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. Zaroff is bored of hunting because it no longer challenges him; he has moved to Ship-Trap Island in order to capture shipwrecked sailors. Any captives who can elude Zaroff, his manservant Ivan, and a pack of hunting dogs for three days is set free. No one has yet lasted that long, although a couple of sailors had come close. Zaroff offers sailors a choice-should they decline to be hunted, they will be handed over to Ivan, who had once been official knouter for The Great White Czar.

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. Great sport, hunting. Who cares how a jaguar feels? The fear of pain and the fear of death. Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees.

The most dangerous game by richard connell

Their discussion centers on their chosen sport, big game hunting, and whether wild animals have any fear when they are being stalked by humans. Although he survives the fall, Rainsford is savvy enough to get to shore by following the direction suggested by the shots. However, upon his arrival at Ship Trap Island, the safety he anticipates is not evident; instead he is faced with a ragged jungle environment and evidence of a fierce struggle that has recently occurred there. Ultimately, Rainsford makes his way inland and, to his surprise, he discovers a palatial chateau, which he initially feels is a mirage, but he eventually finds that the house is occupied by a General Zaroff, a military aristocrat with a deaf mute servant of extraordinary strength whose name is Ivan. Indeed, his feudal dining room is decorated with the heads of many of his animal kills, including elephants, tigers, and bears. As the two discover what they consider to be the most dangerous game animal, the reader begins to recognize that the general is far from humane in his pursuit of the sport. Rather, as Zaroff recounts his career to Rainsford, it becomes clear that the general now finds lower animals less of a challenge. Bored with their ability to offer him competition, Zaroff had retreated to this isolated primitive jungle exclusively to hunt the only animal that reasons: men. Zaroff clearly expresses his belief that even his human prey are an inferior species—the weak of the world—but individuals whom he trains to make them competitive to his superior skills. He then offers the individual he hunts a game of cat and mouse.

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The cocktail was surpassingly good; and, Rainsford noted, the table apointments were of the finest--the linen, the crystal, the silver, the china. Get Annual Plans at a discount when you buy 2 or more! This is not a valid promo code. I always take a siesta after lunch. The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea dosed over his head. Invariably, Mr. He reached it. You'll be billed after your free trial ends. I shall not follow till dusk. The story first appeared in the January 19, issue of Collier's. Zaroff states that he now hunts far more dangerous game on his island. Does killing someone who is hunting you constitute as murder and how is that any different from an animal killing a person to save itself from death? Gasping, his hands raw, he reached a flat place at the top. No thrill left in tigers, no real danger.

On an especially dark night, Sanger Rainsford and his friend Whitney are sailing on a yacht heading to the Amazon to hunt jaguars. Whitney explains to Rainsford the superstition surrounding an ominous place they are passing called Ship-Trap Island. Between remarks about the island, the two men argue about whether animals experience thoughts and feelings, and Rainsford concludes that animals understand nothing and that living creatures are divided into hunters and prey.

The tone of the story is creepy, but the writing could have been a little more engaging. The free trial period is the first 7 days of your subscription. Now, mine is an analytical mind, Mr. You shall have them. Laughter shook the general. Security Code. He saw that straight flight was futile; inevitably it would bring him face to face with the sea. The job was finished at last, and he threw himself down behind a fallen log a hundred feet away. I, luckily, had invested heavily in American securities, so I shall never have to open a tearoom in Monte Carlo or drive a taxi in Paris. You'll find that my clothes will fit you, I think. It's clear that the brute put up a fight. He looked about him, almost cheerfully. A thought provoking, intense, 30 minute read. I killed my first bear in the Caucasus when I was ten.