In the short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, Mr. Rainsford is all the sudden thrown off his sail boat near the island that is named ship trap island, when this happens he is set off onto a wild and scary adventure. This story was mainly about Mr. Rainsford, a hunter from New York city that had traveled and hunted all over the world. But when he goes on a hunting trip with friends on a boat, they encounter a strange island that is called Ship trap island due to many disappearances and superstition. One night Rainsford wakes up and goes onto the deck because he thinks that he has heard a gun shot. He falls out of the boat somehow and has to swim to the shore, when he gets there he falls over from being completely tired due to swimming for over an hour. When he wakes up, he hears voices in the distance, Rainsford begins to walk and comes by a settlement. And he enters and gets acquainted with a fan of his, General Zaroff. He apparently hunts in the jungle on the island and tries to be as fancy as possible. And after keeping Rainsford there for a few days he explains that he likes to play a hunting game, which is all about hunting men that he traps on the island. And after all of that he begins to hunt Rainsford and he ends in killing Zaroff in his own bedroom. Now, I believe that the author seems to have this particular balanced view on hunting, this can be seen because the story is about a guy who likes to hunt and meets another guy that likes to hunt. Harmless enough right? But when the author goes into what men do to entertain themselves, his views seem to turn a bit on the dark side. I say this because the story is clearly about General Zaroff, and how he got bored and decided to start hunting men. But overall, I personally liked this story and how the writer seemed to take this serious, messed up tone towards hunting. This story also shows how the author believes that when men become bored, that they will go at anything to entertain themselves. Now in particular this has to be one of the best short stories that I have read in La 9 so far... Why I say that this is my favorite out of the others is only because of the theme which is man vs. man and of course man vs. self. I say man vs. man, because Zaroff is obviously hunting men because he's bored and gets some thrill out of it. And I said Man vs. self because he can't seem to stop himself from doing his sick things. Now going back to the author who from my point of view is leaning more towards the bad in hunting then the good clearly because his story is about a bored man who hunts men but he most likely would remain in between for the most part on his views on hunting. Now I will give some evidence that the two themes mentioned above are indeed prominent in the story. Now for man vs. man an example of this can be seen when Zaroff says this interesting statement to Rainsford, "Indeed, We will hunt you... and I tonight." That quote shows that Zaroff and Rainsford have indeed, developed a rival amongst each other. And now for man vs. self, when Zaroff says this also very interesting quote to Rainsford, "Would you like to see my new collection of heads?". This shows a bit of man vs. self, why I say this is only because Rainsford can't help showing off how good of a hunter he is to Rainsford. Well hope everyone enjoys this PLN post about the "Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connel
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