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The short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard
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Connell is about the hunter and the hunted but later in the story it
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becomes ironic because it turns into a game were the hunter becomes
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the hunted. It turns into a chase of competition and of survival.
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Two sailors Rainsford and his partner Whitney sailed in to the
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darkness of the of sea. Their purpose was to hunt, they called it the
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greatest sport. They were hunters and headed to the Amazon to hunt
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vicious animals such as Jaguars, and tigers.
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They sailed to an island called Ship-Trap Island. Sailors
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feared this island and had curious dread of such a scarry place. The
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sky was filled with darkness when suddently he heard Three gun
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shots that were fired, and heard them again and again. Then he heard
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a scream while smoking a pipe when suddently the pipe fell and as he
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tried to reach for it he whent down into the sea were the waves
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swallowed his screams.
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Nobody could have heard him as the ocean swallowed his
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screams and the only chance of survival was to swim. Rainsford
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swam towards the screams and ended up in the Island. He walked on
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the shoreline and later found a place that looked like a mansion.
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There he met General Zaroff who bought the island to hunt. He was
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indeed a sporstman who invented a new sensation of the hunting
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game. His game was to train those men who's ships were wrecked
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and ended up in that island, and then provide them with food and a
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knife for three days. Once they were trained they were led out into
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the island as a head start while Zaroff chase after them and tried to
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hunt them down. If They survived during those three days they had
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won the game and they were let free but in the other case if they were
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found they were killed.
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Zaroff never lost the game so if one of the men being hunted
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was about to survive he would release the hounds to chased after
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them. Rainsford rested and the next morning had a dispute with Zaroff
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and told him that this hunting style was to brutal. In this argument
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Zaroff got mad and at this point in the story Raisford became the
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hunted. He was let loose into the island were he was to prepare
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himself for the most dangerous game of his life, the survival of the
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fittest.
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The first night was panicking and worried Rainsford as he
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hidded on top of a tree. The next day he set up a trap but Zaroff
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did'nt fall for it and he almost got caught when Zaroff was right next to
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the bushes were Rainsford was hiding. the last day he set up a pitfall
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and while Zarroff and his servant were serching, his servant
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unfortunately fell into the pit. Rainsford got out of the Island trying to
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escape by swimming out into the ocean and swam back to the
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mansion and when Zaroff returned Rainsford switched the game
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around and proposed him to become the hunted.
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I like this short story because Rainsford was wise in making
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traps wich allowed Zaroff to take more time trying to find him and did
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them successfully wich helped him survive those three days. I also
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liked how the story ended it was kind of ironic the way Rainsfored
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changed the game around and became the hunter and Zaroff became
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the hunted. I thought it was a good idea because this way Zaroff
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would realise that his game of hunting people was wrong and this
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would teach him a lesson.
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