Read the excerpt from Part 2 of "The Most Dangerous Game," by Richard Connell,
In this scene in both the story and the film, Rainsford is
depicted as
Abe
angry.
O resourceful.
O bumbling
O romantic.
He slid down from the tree, and struck off again into the
woods. His face was set and he forced the machinery
of his mind to function. Three hundred yards from his
hiding place he stopped where a huge dead tree
leaned precariously on a smaller, living one. Throwing
off his sack of food, Rainsford took his knife from its
sheath and began to work with all his energy.
The-job was finished at last, and he threw himself down
behind a fallen log a hundred feet away. He did not
have to wait long.