Short Essay: The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

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

bored by hunting animals, so he has a new animal to hunt. He has humans as the new animal, so he can have a challenge on his hunting. Zaroff makes all his prisoners play that game, or else they get tortured by Ivan. Rainsford is also an exceedingly good hunter. Rainsford knows almost everything there is to know on how to hunt. Rainsford gets paid to take people out hunting big game and shows them how to hunt that specific animal. At the beginning of the story Rainsford was going to take Whitney who was planning on going hunting for. Whitney starts thinking different about hunting. He starts to wonder what the animal might think while they were hunting it. He does not want to kill the animal and Rainsford told him that animals do not have feelings. He thought that the animals felt no pain while they were being chased and hunted.
In the story there are many people in the story where there are people hunted in the story. Zaroff wants to hunt Rainsford in his game. He wants a real challenge on hunting an expert hunter. All the other people he has hunted have made many mistakes that have led to their death even before Zaroff have come to him. They actually have a chance of winning his game if they know the ways of surviving against a hunter. In the story it said, “If he does not wish to hunt, I turn him over to Ivan.” (Connell page 226) Zaroff basically forces people to go and be hunted. They have no other choice if they want a slight chance of survival or definitely being killed by Ivan who used to be an official knouter. Rainsford whoever knows how a hunter thinks which is a type of advantage to him while trying to survive in the jungle.
In the story it indicates that Zaroff said: “The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees.” Whoever I disagree with that statement.

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

hunting.
Clearly, Predator and prey are not the only two kinds of people in the world. Zaroff and Rainsford both excellent hunters have to see which one of them will find the other while Zaroff tries to hunt for Rainsford. As Zaroff has said in the story that they will be playing a game of outdoor chess against each other. At the end Rainsford ends up winning against Zaroff who has never lost against anyone in his little game.