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The protagonist, Sanger Rainsford, is an adventurous big-game hunter who confronts the nature of life and death for the first time in his life during his few frightening days on Ship-Trap Island.
Big-game hunter Sanger Rainsford and his friend Whitney are traveling by ship to the Amazon rainforest for a jaguar hunt. After a discussion about the nearby Ship-Trap Island, which has an evil reputation among sailors, Whitney goes to bed while Rainsford stays on deck to smoke his pipe.
Sanger Rainsford is a celebrated hunter from New York City with a passion for hunting big game and a “predator versus prey” worldview. He is traveling on a yacht with his friend Whitney to hunt jaguars in the Amazon, when he falls overboard into the sea just off the coast of Ship-Trap Island .
Sanger Rainsford is the protagonist of Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Hailing from New York, Rainsford is a World War I veteran as well as a famous hunter and...
He and his friend Rainsford are big-game hunters bound for a hunting trip in the Amazon River basin. As the yacht sails through the darkness, the two men discuss whether their prey actually feels fear.
Sanger Rainsford and his friend Whitney are sailing on a yacht heading to the Amazon to hunt jaguars. It’s a particularly dark night, and Whitney explains to Rainsford the superstition surrounding an ominous place they are passing called Ship-Trap Island. He claims that not even cannibals would live there because it’s such an evil place.
"The Most Dangerous Game" is a 1924 short story by Richard Connell in which Sanger Rainsford must fight for his life while being hunted for sport. After washing ashore on an island,...
