Brief Summary: The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connel

In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connel, there are several actions that I would have taken differently if I were Rainsford such as, I would not have made it to the island in the first place, General Zaroff would have interacted differently with me, and if by some happenstance I ended up being hunted by him, I would have been killed.
The circumstance at the beginning of the story leads me to believe that I would not end up on the island at all. The first part of the story that causes Rainsford to end up in that situation is being an adept big-game hunter. I do not hunt, therefore I would not have ended up on the boat. If I were however on the boat, I would not have fallen off of it the way that Rainsford did because I do not smoke and therefore would not have fallen off of the boat because I was awake smoking. A third and final reason that I would not have made it to the island is that I am unable to swim and would have drowned after falling off of the boat. If I did make it to the island, the way events occurred there would not have happened in the same way either.

After I had fallen off of the boat and made it to the island, the way I would have reacted would have been different as well.

I can assume that I found the mansion easily, but being me, I would not be famous or known enough for General Zaroff to help or be nice to me. However, if I were as famous as Rainsford and for the same reason, my interaction with General Zaroff would have ended differently as well. I have always wanted to test the limits of the human body and mind, and I believe that if I were in this situation, I would likely side with Zaroff and hunt with him. However, if I were unable to react in that way, and ended up hunted by Zaroff, two issues would cause the encounter to turn out

differently.
If I were to be hunted by General Zaroff on the island, two actions that Rainsford took would have turned out differently for me. I do not have survival and hunting skills, so General Zaroff would have easily caught up to and killed me. However, if I had enough of the same background that Rainsford does, which would have been the only way that I could have it this far, I would have the skills, understanding, and personality to do the exact things that he did. That would cause it to no longer be me in the situation, but instead, a version of the man in the story named Rainsford. This shows that no matter how it would play out if I were there, no situational aspect of the story would have occurred if I were a part of the story in place of Rainsford.
Clearly, even though I personally would die if in the situation that Rainsford finds himself in as part of the story “The Most Dangerous Game”, there is no conceivable way that I would find myself in that situation without being Rainsford myself. In which case I would react no differently from Rainsford, and the end of the story would be no different.