Richard Connells “The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story that illustrates how calm analytical thinking can increase your chances of survival and controlling panic. protagonist and main character, Sanger Rainsford, a big game hunter and a veteran of the First World War. The story begins with a conversation between Whitney and Rainsford talking about the island, so we can understand the reputation it holds. Whitney is a fellow hunter, a flat character and mostly used as a plot device. Whitney introduces the secondary theme that hunters usually have no empathy for their prey. This is one of the first uses of irony in history. Metaphors and similes are often used in this story, so the reader gets a better picture of the setting, that's something, and I think Connell did incredibly well, for example when he refers to the darkness of the night as black velvet humid, the sea was flat as a sheet of glass and it was like trying to see through a blanket. Rainsford begins his epic fight for survival after falling overboard when he carelessly finds himself on the...