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A prolific writer in the first several decades of the twentieth century
Born October 17, 1893, in a New York state community near the Hudson River, not far from Theodore Roosevelt’s homestead
He spent a year at Georgetown College (now University) in Washington, D.C. while working as a secretary for his father, who was a member of Congress
When his father died in 1912, Connell moved back East to attend Harvard University.
While at Harvard, he exercised his interest in writing by serving as an editor for both the Daily Crimson and the Lampoon, a precursor to the popular National Lampoon satire magazine.
In 1917, Connell enlisted in the United States Army during World War I and he fought on the front lines
His stories, more than 300 in all, were frequently published in such popular magazines as The Saturday Evening Post and Colliers.
Throughout his career, he variously wrote novels, plays, short stories, and screenplays for Hollywood movies
“The Most Dangerous Game" has remained popular since its initial publication. One of its strengths is its finely crafted action, which provides a type of suspense and adventure rare in short fiction
Most of Connell’s fiction was published in the 1920s and 1930s
Connell died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California, on November 22, 1949
The celebrated hunter Sanger Rainsford, while aboard a yacht cruising in the Caribbean, falls into the sea. While swimming desperately for shore, he hears the anguished cries of an animal being hunted; it is an animal he does not recognize. Rainsford makes it to land and after sleeping on the beach, he begins to look for people on the island. He finds evidence of the hunt he overheard and wonders, upon finding empty cartridges, why anyone would use a small gun to hunt what was, according to the evidence, obviously a large animal. Rainsford then follows the hunter’s footprints to the solitary house on the island.
South American Jungle
Ricahrd Connell provides an ominous setting typical of the Gothic genre. Horrible sounds and dismal sights fill the background of this story, and the details become more frightening and typical of both the horror and action-adventure genres as the story progresses.
"The Most Dangerous Game" was published in 1924. During this time...
The United States was firmly committed to Latin American politics and had a growing interest in Central America and the Caribbean
In Connell’s era, big-game hunting in South America was done mainly by outfitted safari.
The most desired species in big-game hunting were jaguar, puma, ocelot, red deer, and buffalo. The jaguar, the most powerful and most feared carnivore in South America, was a prized trophy.
Big game hunting in African and South American countries is popular with wealthy Europeans and Americans.
The Soviet Union, led by Vladimir Lenin, was established in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War. Private ownership of property and Christianity are banned, and the Cossacks—military forces loyal to the Tzar—are killed or deported. Economic conditions, however, fail to improve on a wide scale.
One writer of the period, Kenneth Roberts, warned that unrestricted immigration would create “a hybrid race of people as worthless and futile as the good-for-nothing mongrels of Central America and Southeastern Europe.”
The attitude of anti-immigration was not uncommon among Connell’s American audience
Federal dictates began restricting the entrance of immigrants into America.
Americans, whose families had immigrated earlier, frequently launched attacks against immigrants who were perceived to be inundating the work force and lowering the American standard of living.
Congress set strict quotas for each European country, and the National Origins Act of 1924 reassigned quotas that gave privilege to British, German, and Scandinavian immigrants over Italians, Poles, and Slavs. The 1924 regulations completely restricted the immigration of Asians, Africans, and Hispanics.
General Zaroff
Sanger Rainsford
Ivan