How would you feel to go from the hunter to the hunted? This is what happened to Rainsford after he fell off of his yacht on his way to Brazil for a hunting trip. Once he reaches the island he is greeted the next day by someone who seems to be a good person but soons finds out that he is just the opposite. To escape from the island Rainsford will have to what zaroff calls a game. In this game Rainsford will become the hunted while Zaroff will remain as the hunter. The theme of the story is all about hunting This is revealed throughout the story in many different types of figurative language.
example of figurative languages can be find in many places in this short story like “I have played the fox now I must play the cat of the fable”35.This is saying that Rainsford has played as the fox by walking in a circle multiple times to confuse the general o Rainsford has a chance to lose him. Now he will. Play the cat by hiding up in a tree so if the general where to finds Rainsford he would have the chance to be overlooked by the general. After this Rainsford didn’t stop there with the traps he continued to make more traps throughout the game.
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He was clearly saving him for a another day's hunt. “the cossack is the cat he (Rainsford) was the mouse”37. This is saying that zaroff completely thought that Ransford was too easy for him so he figured that he if he could find him that easy that day he could find him just as easy the next day. Rainsford will remain as the mouse in Zaroff's eyes until Rainsford will eventually outsmart the