Short Essay: The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

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The Most Dangerous Game Essay

In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell it talks about how Rainsford is stuck on an island where he plays a game where he is being hunted. Rainsford an expert hunter knows all there is to know about hunting. Zaroff is another expert hunter also knows almost everything about hunting. Zaroff starts hunting Rainsford as game he has not lost. If you do not play the game, you get tortured by Ivan. Ivan can not speak, and Zaroff was a Russian soldier.Obviously Rainsford and Zaroff are an expert on hunting. There are many types of hunters in story. Zaroff is an amazing hunter, he has killed just about every type of animal. “I had invented a new animal to hunt.” (Connell page 224) He starts getting …show more content…

There are many people who think that that statement is true, they are partly right. In the story it said: “The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure.”There are bullies in school who pick on people and think that they are superior over them. But there are also other people who are neither a hunter or prey. For example; George Washington. He was a great example to people. He was not considered someone who picked on people or even was someone you could pick on. People surrounding him respected him. So there are just not people who are hunter and prey. There are too many different people to state that comment. You could very easily state that a soldier as a hunter since they are in combat. But they are not considered hunters since they are on the field fighting for their lives, when they are home they are not hunters. People just do not go killing little kids just because they are defenseless and can not fight back. There is also ways that you could consider that statement true is if you are actually hunting obviously. If you are out hunting you could very well consider yourself a hunter while you are out hunting whatever animal you may be out

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