“The Most Dangerous Game” is a story about taking life from living things through hunting. During the first part of the story Sanger Rainsford is introduced when passing Ship Trap Island, while passing the island Rainsford falls off the yacht and has to swim to the island. When Rainsford reached the island he discovered a chateau which housed two Cossack men one was General Zeroff. General Zeroff was a psychotic man who hunted his own imported quarry. Later in the story Rainsford finds out that the quarry is human beings, and that General Zeroff wants to hunt Rainsford because he is the best challenge the world can offer. Rainsford refuses so Zeroff gives him the option to either play the game or die. So Rainsford agrees to play his sick little game and in the end, through all his trials of being hunted, kills Zeroff and takes his island in which he had built.…show more content… Although they are good hunters they hunt for two very different reasons. Rainsford hunts to study his quarry and what the animal does while being hunted; General Zeroff hunts to get the thrill and excitement of the kill. The reason General Zeroff decided to hunt humans is because he had mastered every other animal there is to hunt; he wanted something more challenging than what an animal could offer. Rainsford shows him just what he was wanting. Mr. Rainsford and Mr. Zeroff are two very different men. The value of life is not a value to General Zeroff like it is to Rainsford, because of his Cossack background. To General Zeroff life is important but only to the strong; his reason was that the weaker life was put on earth for the stronger man to take. Since Rainsford was brought up in America his value of life was taught to him differently, Rainsford believes in preserving life, because every life has a
