Rainsford's Ruine On An Island

Chunk 1: to begin with, when Rainsford is on the deck of the yacht at night he hears a gunshot piercing the air. Trying to get a closer look, Rainsford loses his balance and falls off the yacht into the water. In the water, “a certain coolheadedness had come to him”(3). Rainsford remains calm. When rainsford falls from the yacht, he does not try swimming back to the yacht. Rainsford recalls the direction where he heard the gunshots. From there, Rainsford begins swimming in that direction in the thick and darkness of the night to Ship Trap Island. Rainsford’s

Rainsfords is panicked and running for his life, he's also scared of what General Zaroff will do to him when he catches him. Rainsfords force himself towards the gap between these two trees. He got closer to gap to see open water, and then he went to for it, he jumped. ‘“I am still a beast at bay, Rainsfords said, in a low hoarse voice, Rainsfords said this after he jumped off the cliff and swam back to the land. As he swam back he seen a big house, he walked closer to it and seen General Zaroff.

The man asks Rainsford why he is out in this island all Rainsford says is he’s out hunting and heard the crash. Rainsford tells Jack about the mansion and as soon as they arrive there he’ll fix him up and take care of him. Jack has no idea what is wrong with Rainsford but something is not right about him. Two hours later they arrive at the mansion.

The yacht left Rainsford because they had no idea he fell off. As the yacht continued on its journey to Brazil its lights “became faint and ever-vanishing; then they were blotted out entirely by the night.”(Connell 21) as Rainsford floated in the water and watched. Rainsford fell off the boat and no one on the boat realized he had so, he became stranded. Zaroff's hounds would kill Rainsford if he tried to leave the house at night. Zaroff made sure his hounds “are let out at seven every night. If anyone should try to get in my house or out of it something extremely regrettable would occur to him”(Connell 29). The hounds had Rainsford trapped in the house, they would kill him if he tried to leave the house at night, preventing him from getting off the island. While Rainsford played the game he couldn’t get enough lead way to try to get away and escape. Even if Rainsford had managed to get far enough from Zaroff to develop a plan to escape the island the sea roaring “twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed”(Connell 36) so swimming was excluded from the plan. The island was surrounded by the ocean and he had no way to get off the island, other than a boat. Rainsford was only the prey in a really big game of “survival of the fittest.” Rainsford felt as if “He was in a picture with a frame of water, and his operations, clearly, must take place within that frame.”(Connell 32). He had nowhere to go other than the island, he only had the island itself to take refuge and hide. Despite what Rainsford wishes there is no reasonable way to get off the island, which is uninhabited by game animals for Rainsford to hunt. Rainsford knows what it is like to be hunted, so he will take pity and mercy on the game animals he

Being lost in an island, hungry, and tired is not an everyday thing. So Rainsford being in that situation, had no other choice than except Zaroff’s generosity. Zaroff gave Rainsford clothes, food and, a place to sleep. Zaroff tells Rainsford to join him for dinner, and Rainsford went to the dinner room as told. Sitting down eating there meal. The two men’s starts a conversation and starts to talk about their lives. Zaroff learns a lot of things about Rainsford and so does Rainsford. Rainsford learns that Zaroff is a smart man and a hunter just like him, but Zaroff him hunting people is part of things that he hunts for. Zaroff on another hand learns that Rainsford is a pretty smart, educated man and lastly a hunter.4

Conflict:The Rainsford falls off the boat so the boat needs to head to “ship trap island’

Rainsford’s best friend is the sea until it brought him to the General’s Ship Trap Island. Once Rainsford safely swims to the island, he is relieved. The narrator even says, “All he knew was that he was safe from his enemy, the sea. . . ”(3). Rainsford knows that he cannot escape the island since there is nowhere to swim to. Now he is stuck on Ship Trap Island. The brave sailor is protected from the sea for now, but not from Death Swap and its quicksand. Rainsford is trying to escape from the general until he met the deadly quicksand of the island. The author writes, “Then, he stepped forward, his foot sank into the ooze. He tried to wrench it back, but the muck sucked viciously at his foot as if it were a giant leech” (12). Determined to survive, Rainsford dug his

Our protagonist, Rainsford - a famous hunter - fell off a yacht and found himself stranded on an island with no supplies. He

Rainsford had arrived on the shore of Ship-Trap Island after falling off a yacht. According to the narrator, “Bleak darkness was blacking out the sea and jungle when Rainsford sighted the lights” (Connell 45). The island Rainsford arrived on was filled with darkness, with light only coming from Zaroff’s château. The use of setting signifies the importance of where the story is taking place. In the beginning of the story, the island was described as dark, giving a feeling of indistinction.This setting first overwhelmed Rainsford, for he did not know what to do. The setting of the jungle is described as a location of being constrictive because it did not allow Rainsford to return back home. Rainsford used his instinct to navigate though the unknowns of Ship-Trap Island. Zaroff had the confidence of navigating the island’s challenges, so he distrusted his instinct. While setting helped reveal the message of the story, characterization also supported the author’s argument.

What is probably going on inside Rainsford head is he is probably thinking as to how he got in this type of situation, for him being stuck on an island that he doesn’t even know about, except for its name. He’s probably of ways to escape the island by using one of Zaroff’s resources such as a boat. His reactions to his first day on Ship-Trap Island was very exhausting and tiresome because of when he accidently fell off the ship and had to swim to the island through those rough waters. As he laid there, his reaction was to find was to find out where that gunshot happened, because where there is a gunshot, theirs people also.

     Rainsford is an intelligent man. Early in the story, “Rainsford remembered the shots. They had come from the right, and he doggedly swam in that direction” (34). Rainsford had just fallen in the water,

After falling off the ship, Rainsford swam in the direction of where he heard three gunshots come from. The first thing he notices as he reaches the rocks was the large animal that had went in the underbrush and the blood stained on a patch of weeds. Rainsford then finds a cartridge and realizes that the animal had been shot with a twenty-two. He went on his way looking for something to show him the way to where the “men” he suspected to be on the island were. Just as he was hoping, he found prints of hunting boots. These small details showing how alert, intelligent, and descriptive he is says a lot about the character

Perplexed, he rushed out the mansion onto the beach and frantically searched for help, a way off the island, anything! To his displeasure, he perceived nothing that seemed useful for escape and when Rainsford spotted a vacant, lonely dock, he knew the transport ships were long gone and were not an option of escape. Although he was somewhat disheartened to learn about the ships, he was pleased to take in the refreshing wave of beauty that the view provided. Beyond the thriving, swaying trees, the sea was calm, like a slumbering, tranquil baby, and the sky was absent of any clouds. The soft breeze brought a sweet tropical scent that aroused his senses and reinvigorated his thinking. Rainsford recalled how he came to Ship-Trap Island and when General Zaroff mentioned the many sailors that were also stranded on the island. He wondered if there were still any sailors on the island. He decided to search the

It had been a week since Rainsford managed to kill the nefarious General Zaroff. The challenging part was almost over or so it seemed. There was not a clear way for Rainsford to escape. As days passed, Rainsford tried to escape. He tried making a boat from driftwood that he found, he tried swimming, he even tried sending a signal by using a flashlight. Rainsford had become so desperate that he even tried some ridiculous plans like trying to pole vault across the ocean. As a result, Rainsford ended up having huge gashes in his left leg ,which got infected, and he had to amputate it. As days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, Rainsford had lost hope and became bitter.

In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford, who is a hunter, lands on an island where General Zaroff lives. Zaroff has become bored with hunting animals and now lures humans to his island to hunt and kill; but even hunting humans has become too easy for him. Zaroff is a very skillful hunter and he has access to guns, dogs and help from a man named Ivan. He promises to let Rainsford free though, if he can survive three days. Rainsford, being the skillful hunter he is, is able to set traps and survive up until the last day when the dogs corner him and he jumps off the cliff into the rocky water below. What Zaroff doesn’t know is that Rainsford is a great swimmer and surprises him by hiding behind his curtains; Zaroff then challenges him to a fight in which Rainsford wins. This