cause and effect

Crackling and crunching with every step General Zaroff made Rainsford grow more and more scared for his life. A sudden change, Rainsfords heart stopped as Zaroff stops right under Rainsford, smokes a cigar and than slowly turns around and walks away slowly. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, talks about General Zaroff who becomes bored hunting animals around the world so he starts hunting humans because it’s harder and more challenging.

In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” cause and effect relationships, such as Rainsford was being hunted by Zaroff because Rainsford didn’t want to hunt along with General Zaroff, also like how Zaroff became bored hunting animals so began to hunt humans, and Rainsford knew he was trapped so he turned around and hunted Zaroff, these cause and effect relationships cause the story “The Most Dangerous Game” to be more suspenseful.

Zaroff becomes bored hunting animals and turns to hunting humans. He is bored with this because animals can’t reason unlike humans that can. Rainsford and Zaroff both have different feelings about Zaroff hunting humans. “If I wish to hunt why should I not? I hunt the scum of the earth-sailors from tramp ships –lascars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels-a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them” Zaroff told Rainsford (Connell 27).  Zaroff thinks the people that he hunts are worthless and that it’s fine that it’s okay to hunt people. Rainsford try’s to tell Zaroff that what he is doing is wrong but Zaroff doesn’t see it that way at all. Rainsford wants nothing to do with this crazy man and just wants to get off this island.

Zaroff hunts Rainsford because Rainsford sees what General Zaroff does as wrong, and tells Zaroff he wants to leave the island at once. Zaroff has another idea, and Rainsford realizes that from the look on Zaroff’s face. “He saw the dead black eyes of the general on him. General Zaroff’s faces suddenly brighten,” Rainsford thought inside his head (Connell 30). From the look on Zaroff’s face Rainsford already realizes that Zaroff plans to hunt him, and that he will never get off the island if he doesn’t go along with Zaroff’s idea. Rainsford also knows he may never get off the island if he gives into Zaroff’s idea, he may not ever get off the island but he may die there.

Rainsford knows General Zaroff is going to going to keep hunting him Rainsford swims away only to come back and hunt Zaroff himself. Zaroff doesn’t think this will happen and is surprised, and loses. “I am still a beast at bay, he said in a low hoarse voice” Rainsford tells Zaroff (Connell 36). Rainsford knows that there is no way for him to get away from the island, so he decides that the only way to get away is to hunt Zaroff himself. So Rainsford gets into Zaroff’s room, and Rainsford begins hunting Zaroff.

In this story “The Most Dangerous Game” cause and effect relationships, causing suspense. Such as Rainsford was being hunted by Zaroff because Rainsford didn’t want to hunt along with General Zaroff, also like how Zaroff became bored hunting animals so began to hunt humans, and Rainsford knew he was trapped so he turned around and hunted Zaroff. This story was a great book that caused a lot of suspense from the cause and effect relationships in it.