The Most Dangerous Game

I really enjoyed reading The Most Dangerous Game. It was suspensful and a very easy story to follow. Something that I noticed throughout the whole story was how the author made it a point to point out the darkness of everything, and how the story unfolded and moved within the darkness. This was something I noticed right away when Rainsford was talking about how he couldn't see 500 yards out from the yact and how the sea looked like black velvet. Then, shortly after explaining the darkness, he fell from the boat. Anytime that it was day time, nothing really happened but then that next night, he found Zafford's house by the lights on the house that were shining through the darkness and when he saw Zafford, the author made a point to show how he had dark features. I also noticed that the only time the hunting happened was at night which also plays into the darkness theme.

Something else that I thought about after reading this story is what will happen to Rainsford now that he has killed Zafford. He too is now stranded on this island and will get shipwrecked boats full of people. He was so against killing a human when he got to Zafford's house but in the end he went back and killed him so could it be that he has turned into a killer himself? He already had the same mind frame as Zafford when it came to the sport of hunting and now he will be in a position to do the same thing that Zafford did. It would be interesting to see the story unfold into a longer novel.