The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game is a great short story filled with surprise and suspense. Its plot takes many twists and turns. Even the title is strange. It can mean either a dangerous game you play or dangerous game you hunt. In this story it means both. The story begins peacefully enough, on a sailboat in the Carribean, but the Rainsford, the protagonist, falls off the boat. Fortunately the oat is sailing near Ship-Trap Island and he gets safely ashore. The next morning he finds a chateau which is inhabited by the antagonist, General Zaroff. Rainsford soon that when General Zaroff hunts humans it is the most dangerous game to play and that humans are the most dangerous game. Their conversation ends with Zaroff telling Rainsofrd he will be his most difficult prey yet. You'll have to read the story to find out if he gets caught or not.
I thought this story only had a few glitches. The author, Richard Connell, should have spent more time describing the hunt and less time in the house, to make it more exciting. I also think he should have gone into the mind of General Zaroff, and told what he thought, and what he saw. That way we would know how he didn't see Rainsford in the tree, and what he thought when his hounds and Ivan, his giant slave, were killed. I'm lad he didn't tell us what happened to the ship Rainsford was on, because that would have made the story too long. Otherwise, it was a very good story.
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