PLN #3 (revised)

The story "The Most Dangerous Game," has many lessons and themes involved in it, one of those themes being irony. Irony, I think, is the greatest theme in the entire story because in the beginning all Rainsford talks about is how the animals he kills don't have feelings and if they do, he doesn't care. His thinking though is changed when he now is the huntee and no longer the hunter, he realizes that all his prey feel is fear and nothing else, "Who cares how they feel?" This is the quote that shows that Rainsford doesn't care for animals, at all, and he thinks that anyone who does is pathetic. Another theme in this story is probably cockiness, if the general hadn't been so full of himself, he wouldn't have died in the end. The general thought that he could outwit Rainsford but the general was to cocky, "It seems your trap has gotten one of my hounds, I will leave and return later with the rest of the pack."Rainsford set a trap for the general but only got the hound and the general is to conceeded to know that he is in trouble. Another time the general shows his cockiness is when Rainsford jumps off the cliff so the general couldn't get him. "So he has lost the game, and he shows his cowardice by running away." So after this the general just sits and has a brandy thinking he won, until he gets ready to go to bed when Rainsford appears and kills him.  So these are the lessons that stuck with me when I read and  I think they will stick with me for a long time.