Dangerous Game for pleasure or understanding?

There are certain ideas that the majority of human race treasures, such as life. What would happen if those ideas were suddenly challenged? What would the common reaction be? The short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell explains one man’s reaction to just such a challenge. This story is an example of escape literature because it has a sympathetic hero, a defined plot, and a happy ending.
To start of with, Sanger Rainsford is a sympathetic hero because he represents the values that nearly everyone has when it comes to the value of life. After hearing what the general does, Rainsford says, “Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder.” He states right off what this opinion of Zaroff’s activities are. It is this opinion that conforms so easily with that held by the majority of society: shooting down men for pleasure is not hunt...