Rainsford In The Most Dangerous Game

In " The Most Dangerous Game " by Richard Connell the protagonist, Sanger Rainsford, is a big game hunter who finds himself in a life or death situation when he falls off of a ship when on a journey to Rio. Shortly after swimming to shore he find himself on Ship-Trap island, after following a trail, he arrives at a chateau where he meets General Zaroff. Zaroff is also a big game hunter, but of a different kind, General Zaroff hunts men. Rainsford agrees to play Zaroff's game,Knowing that it is probably his best chance to survive, and on the third day kills Zaroff, winning the game. Rainsford is a very skilled hunter, and only because he posses the traits that come with that, he survived. If he had never hunted before, he would not have won the game,which is showed multiple times in the story. …show more content…
This is shown when he convinces Zaroff that he fled the island, when really he swam to the chateau and waited for Zaroff."A man, who had been hiding in the curtains of the bed, was standing there."Rainsford!" screamed the general. "How in God's name did you get here?" "Swam," said Rainsford. "I found it quicker than walking through the jungle." Rainsford used what he knew to make Zaroff think that he had given up, when really he had figured out how to win the game. If he had been dim witted then he would have never realized that he could swim to get to the chateau first and set a trap for Zaroff, and his wit is only one of his skills that helped him while he was playing the