Richard Connell was an American writer and journalist who was born in 1893 and passed away in 1949. Along with his several short stories, the most famous of which is "The Most Dangerous Game", published in 1924, Connell published several other such works and also screenplays and novels. "The Most Dangerous Game", from which this short excerpt is taken, narrates the story of a hunter (Sanger Rainsford), who is experienced in the hunt of big animals, and who ends up stranded in Ship-Trap island, in the Caribbean coast after falling off a yacht. Rainsford has to face the biggest challenge of his life in this place as he has to survive a hunting game established by the story´s villain, General Zaroff. In the end, and after much suffering, Rainsford wins the hunting game and defeats Zaroff. When Connell uses the words "snarled" and "ragged" jungle, he is describing the inhospitable and untouched habitat in which his main character, Rainsford, finds himself. Most particularly, snarled, gives the image of something that is so twisted and tangled, that it is impossible to unwind, impossible to see through and impossible to pass. With this, Rainsford is giving the idea that the place where he landed has never been touched, or cultivated, by man.