A Synopsis of The Most Dangerous Game, a Short Story by Richard Connell Essay Example

At the beginning of the story, the hero and protagonist Sanger Rainsford is with someone named Whitney. They are both hunters. They discuss big game and hunting jaguars, and then they head off to sleep. During the night, Rainsford heads off into the sea with a yacht but then falls off it and must swim to shore. He reaches an area which he thinks he is a village. He realizes that it is smaller than that when he views more of it. There, a man puts Rainsford at gunpoint with a shotgun, but a man named General Zaroff, the antagonist, makes him point the gun away from him. The general takes Rainsford inside with him and prepares a meal for him. He tells him that he has the best game to hunt in a place nearby, supposedly even better than jaguars and several