Rainsford sets several traps as he is chased harming Zaroff or one of Zaroffs’s men/dogs. He is finally pined and jumps into the ocean from a cliff. Zaroff thinking he has won heads home but Rainsford beats him there confronting him. Zaroff challenges Rainsford saying whoever wins gets
The author states that Rainsford climbed up a tree, and acted like a cat. When he climbed up the tree and held his breath and didn’t move a muscle. Rainsford knew that General Zaroff didn’t want to find him because he was up in the tree and “ Zaroff sharp eyes inch up the tree but stopped before he got to him and turn around and back to the house.” Rainsford tried to lead Zaroff in the wrong direction by going a more difficult way but it did not work. Rainsford is a very smart man.
General Zaroff challenged Rainsford by saying, “I’ll cheerfully acknowledge myself defeated if I do not find you by the third day.” So, Rainsford accepted the challenge, and on the third day, he fooled the General by swimming back to the house and hiding behind the bed curtain. When General Zaroff went to his room, to sleep, Rainsford surprised him and
The short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell has two main characters that exhibit distinct traits throughout the story. The protagonist, Rainsford, expresses aloofness, fearlessness, and experience. The story’s ironic plot twist has a small effect on Rainsford’s ways. During the rising action Rainsford experiences becoming the prey and shows fearlessness. He uses his experience to survive being the prey, but continues to express aloofness.
He then wondered what to do from there and decided to jump into the sea and swim along the shore to Zaroff’s house. He had been swimming away from the hounds and soon made it to Zaroff’s bedroom to hide and waiting for him to arrive. Zaroff then finished eating and came upstairs. He went to the window then found Rainsford in the curtains and he was shocked to see him there. Zaroff then congratulated Rainsford and “Zaroff said with a deep bow, One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds.
He knew how to avoid them he just didn’t know if avoiding them the way thought in his head was going to work. He ended up getting caught in one of the traps and didn’t know what to do. He had to think quickly before Zaroff could kill him and take all his weapons. The battle ended with Rainsford winning. The night after rainsford won the great battle between General Zaroff, he went home that night and slept in the bed off Zaroff's.
Rainsford swims to the island after falling off the yacht. He arrives at a small island called "Ship-Trap Island.”. On the mysterious Caribbean island, he finds a house owned by a hunter named Zaroff. Rainsford and Zaroff are both hunters but Zaroff is a world famous hunter. However, Zaroff hunts a different animal which can fight back “humans”.
In the short story “The most dangerous game “. Rainsford was justified in killing General Zaroff. Rainsford is a professional hunter and writer. Who one day fell off a boat and swam to Ship-Wreck Island. The island was known of bad omen because of all the ships who happened to walk to their deaths.
When an unfortunate accident throws Rainsford overboard, he stays calm (Connell 28). In this sudden event, he needs to stay calm, and he does that very well. From this point, he immediately looks around and surveys to find a place to go that isn’t stranded in the ocean. “General, I wish to leave this island at once” (Connell 36). Hearing all about the island and General Zaroff makes Rainsford decide he needs to leave.
Another highly unbelievable event that takes place is when Rainsford swam all the way around the island to kill Zaroff. This is extremely unbelievable because Rainsford was very exhausted and worn out. First Rainsfords trap kills Ivan, but the dogs move on, trapping Rainsford at the edge of a cliff. Next instead of fighting the dogs, Rainsford jumps off into the sea below, stunned and angered, Zaroff returns to his home. Finally as he flicks on his bedroom light, he is in complete shock to find Rainsford hidden within the curtains of the bed.
On a “dank tropical night” (1) Rainsford finds their yacht near an island commonly known as “Ship-Trap Island” (1). Soon after his fellow friend bids his goodnight, Rainsford hears a distant “pistol shot” (4) coming from the island. Engrossed by the sound he accidentally falls off the yacht and into the Caribbean Sea.
What started as a thrilling new adventure for American trapper and hunter Sanger Rainsford quickly became a nightmare. On Friday April 15th, 2016, Rainsford traveled to Ship-Trap Island, a small spit of land off the coast of the Caribbean, along with family friend Whitney Johnson with the intention of mounting a hunting expedition in the Amazon. After going up onto the afterdeck and hearing a gunshot, he ran to the railing to see what was all the commotion. He had climbed onto the railing to get a better view and quickly lost his balance, subsequently being thrown into the bitterly cold waters.
His first thought is to get as far away as he can, ‘His first idea was to put as distance between himself and General Zaroff.’ But as he calms down and starts thinking rationally, he realizes he needs to try to survive and outsmart Zaroff and play along with his game. As the days go by he starts losing his morals and tries to kill Zaroff, first by dropping a log on him, ‘The dead tree, delicately adjusted to rest on the cut living one crashed down and struck the general.’ Rainsford has started losing his morals and getting more in touch with his beast.
How will this turn out for rainsford read the story to find out. hunts something so very unusual. Throughout the story connell uses Mood irony and suspense . Mood is used in this story a lot but here was a really amazing version of it that I found. When Rainsford is on the island and approaches the mansion that contains the hunter of
“To Kill a Mocking Bird” was published in 1960, and was written by the Author Harper Lee. This story is recounted about a young called Jean Louise Finch, also known as ‘Scout’ through the book. She talks about her child hood experiences, and as the story goes on we understand the major themes portrayed through the book. In ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird” Harper Lee touches on many social problems, among these is the problem racism in the southern states of America in the mid 1930’s.
