In richard connell's short story "the most dangerous game," the main character, sanger rainsford, is a former war hero. which sentence from this excerpt hints at his time serving in the war? he had not been entirely clearheaded when the chateau gates snapped shut behind him. his whole idea at first was to put distance between himself and general zaroff; and, to this end, he had plunged along, spurred on by the sharp rowers of something very like panic. now he had got a grip on himself, had stopped, and was taking stock of himself and the situation. he saw that straight flight was futile; inevitably it would bring him face to face with the sea. he was in a picture with a frame of water, and his operations, clearly, must take place within that frame. … rainsford had dug himself in in france when a second's delay meant death. that had been a placid pastime compared to his digging now. the pit grew deeper; when it was above his shoulders, he climbed out and from some hard saplings cut stakes and sharpened them to a fine point. these stakes he planted in the bottom of the pit with the points sticking up. with flying fingers he wove a rough carpet of weeds and branches and with it he covered the mouth of the pit. then, wet with sweat and aching with tiredness, he crouched behind the stump of a lightning-charred tree.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.