What a horrific night. Actually, what a horrific and terrifying past three days. How was I to know that when I fell overboard and swam to this island my life would forever be changed. I, Sanger Rainsford, killed a man. Wouldn’t you have done the same? General Zaroff gave me no choice. He hunted me like a wild animal. Wait, maybe it was all a dream. I raised up from my slumber as the sun shined brightly through the window. There on the floor, in a pool of blood, was the General. Unfortunately, this was no dream. I really had killed him! Now, what was I supposed to do? I had to get off this island no matter what, otherwise I might go insane and become just like the General. Once I got over the fact that I had just killed a man I realized …show more content…
One by one I unlocked each cell and the men poured out. I then told them to go upstairs. Once all of them were upstairs, I got them together and told them all that I had killed General Zaroff. When I told them that they all cheered and thanked me for killing him. After they quieted down I told that we all were going to get off the island by boat the next day. I had the men go to the kitchen and gather all the food and supplies they thought we would need for the trip. Once they got all the food and supplies they thought we would need, we all went to sleep for the …show more content…
I can’t fall asleep, the popping and sizzling of the General’s flesh continued to echo in my mind. Seconds turned to minutes, minutes turned to hours; finally, the sun broke through the window. I got up, dressed, and then went downstairs. It didn’t take me long to realize that the men were no longer in the chateau. I ran out to the dock as quickly as I could to find the boat sailing off in the distance, into the Caribbean Sea. “Nooooooooooo! Come back, come back!” I screamed. Kaboom! The boat exploded into a thousand pieces like toothpicks bursting from a box. How could this happen? Did General Zaroff really booby-trap his own boat? How will I ever get off this island now? My mind was scrambled with a million questions. I wearily walked back to the chateau. Starving I went into the kitchen. Unfortunately, the men had packed all the food on the boat for the trip home. Nothing, there was nothing to eat. “Ha, Ha, Ha” I could hear the General’s voice laughing. “How are you going to survive now?” the voice snarled. “Who’s there? Who is saying this?” I whispered as I looked around the room, but there was no one
When world renowned hunter, Sanger Rainsford ends up marooned on an island, he finds himself in an unimaginable word. A world full of murder. He must find a way to save himself and the ones around him. Rainsford is the lesser of two evils he may have a passion for hunting but unlike General Zaroff he has limits, Rainsford kills Zaroff to save himself and many future victims.
Rain and windy conditions were setting us up to savor the good weather when and if it came. In keeping with Dad’s why-start-early program, we made it three-for-three on afternoon starts. We had another pair of locks at Beauharnois. Like the Eisenhower Locks, this is another austere setting with towers and high voltage wires adding to the forbidding atmosphere. It took us more than three hours to get back on our way after waiting for a tanker to come through in the opposite direction. We shared the second lock with a lightly loaded ship named Christine. It was like having a pointed four-story, floating college dormitory behind us. When we left the lock the ship passed us like they were the pleasure boat and we were the freighter. I recall Deb saying, “Grab the loose dishes. We’re going to get pitched around.” A ship of that size throws an enormous wake when going faster than ten-to-twelve knots.
Some people you meet can have a major impact on your life and change it for better or for worse. Rainsfords (a man who likes to hunt dangerous animals) life was greatly changed in both a good way and a bad way by a man who lives on a tiny island in a big house named General Zaroff. Rainsford ended up on this island after he fell of a yacht he was on to go hunt an animal somewhere else but ended up swimming his way up to the shore of an island. But after about a day of being on the island Rainsford was being hunted down. While Rainsford was trying his hardest to survive on the island he was on he found a way to escape to the mainland where General Zaroff was to try and get a way off the island back to civilization. The points in this story will be somehow related to my thesis statement in ¨The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Zaroff teaches Rainsford how it feels to be like the hunted and not the hunter.
In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, there are two main characters, Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff. The story starts off with Rainsford and Rainsford’s hunting partner, Whitney, on a yacht heading to Rio de Janiero to hunt big game animals. Rainsford ends up becoming trapped on Ship-Trap Island, and that is where he and the reader are introduced to General Zaroff. Unfortunately for Rainsford, General Zaroff is not your normal General. General Zaroff and Rainsford are similar and different in many ways, and even though Rainsford believes that Zaroff is a sick individual, at the end of the story he becomes more like Zaroff than he realizes.
In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the protagonist (Rainsford) struggled with the actions of the antagonist (General Zaroff) throughout his adventure. The images used to describe the island, deadly swamp, and castle show that it is inhabited and a dangerous place with the use of setting, imagery, and the tone Connell shows Rainsford’s difficulties, persistence, and triumph to the audience. By using these key aspects, Connell makes important connections to the theme while alluding to hunting as the main concept of this whole adventure.
General Zaroff Is a General who came to ship trap island to hunt big game but after getting bored of hunting animals Zaroff decided to hunt bigger game humans During his time in the service Zaroff doesn't have the ability to tell the difference between men and beast so he moved the lights to strand people and force them to be hunted and if they refused he sent them to his servant Ivan and after a while with Ivan they want to go hunting. Now in the movie there are two more main character Eve and Martin Trowbridge. Who were stranded on the island as well. In the movie Zaroff takes martin to see his trophy room and the next morning rainsford and Eve discover that Zaroff hunted and killed
Rainsford stares out the window. Zaroff is dead. “He didn’t stand a chance with those dogs,” Rainsford thought. “One simple push and he was a goner.” Rainsford observes the nature outside. Zaroff truly did make this island his own. It was filled with nature, making this a beautiful place to hunt. Of course, the animal that he was wanting to hunt was no longer on this island. Zaroff was the last one. Suddenly, Rainsford realizes something about the basement. Something the the basement contains –– prisoners.
The first place they come to is the island of Juan Fernandez. Here ."..all the people, except the soldiers and a few officers, were convicts sent from Valparaiso" (48). Because of the mass population of convicts, knives were forbidden, and all weapons were to be kept away from them. Dana and the crew concluded that the island belonged to Chili and was used by the government as a Botany Bay.
In the beginning of the story, main character and protagonist, Rainsford, ends up on an island by the name of “Ship-Trap Island”. As the story progresses, the reader learns about General Zaroff, the cunning antagonist. Various traits can be identified in his character that lead the reader to foreshadow the dreadful events that later occur in this seemingly well-developed society. One character trait identified in Zaroff’s character consists of his cruel behavior and actions. For example, Zaroff states “where there’s none; giant rocks with
The hope I had for seeing my brothers again had vanished. I did not know how to swim. I could feel the ship lowering into the ocean. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a wooden barrel. I figured that I could float on the barrel, until someone came to rescue us, if they ever did. I grabbed the barrel, and held on for dear life. As the ship sunk, it was just me and the barrel against the ocean. Unfortunately, the waves were violent, and I struggled to firmly grip the
The first to coming up with amazing ways to get off the island is to deep breathing, count to ten, think great thoughts, slow down and think things clearly (Rainbow). Do not use smoke or flares because even though you might capture the attention of nearby aircrafts you will alert the group. Try looking for wood or strong trees to cut down, but go deep into the forest and search for trees away from the group. Use the trees to kind of shape a boat or something you can get on and float into the ocean. Think of the future with this process; you need to pack flares, extra wood for repairs or even starting fires to create smoke, and most importantly start gathering food and
...only way the boys overcame this corruption was after the Navy man showed up on the island to rescue them.
Then, in January 1885, Captain Gilman Parker purposefully ran the Mary Celeste into a coral reef off the coast of Haiti. He was trying to sink the boat as part of an insurance scam.
Kristi and I were given the key to our room. OUR room. Thank god our parents had decided to get a third room just for us. Unfortunately, it was in a middle hallway, which meant no windows. But on a boat like this, who needed windows?? We got to the door, Level 3--Room 3053, and our bags were sitting neatly outside the doorway. One swipe of the card key in the door and we threw the bags in. Time to explore the rest of the surroundings.