Wednesday, September 7, 2011
"The Most Dangerous Game" Sequel
In the story The Most Dangerous Game. A hunter named Sanger Rainsford. In the begging of the story Rainsford is on a yacht cruising in the Caribbean. He falls into the sea. While swimming for the shore. He hears cries of an animal being hunted.He hears gun shots.He does not recognize the cry of the animal. Rainsford makes it to land and after sleeping on the beach. He begins to look for people on the island. He finds evidence of the hunt he overheard and he finds empty cartridges. Rainsford then follows the hunter's footprints to the solitary house on the island.The General, another big-game hunter.He has heard of Rainsford from his book about hunting snow lepards in Tribet. After inviting him to dinner, General Zaroff tells Rainsford of how he became bored with hunting because it no longer challenged him. Zaroff says, he decided to live on an island where he could capture shipwrecked sailors to send them into the jungle supplied with food, a knife, and hunting clothes to be his quarry. After a three-hour head start, he would follow them to hunt and kills them. If the captives eluded him, Ivan, and a pack of hunting dogs for three days, General Zaroff would let the man go, but no one had eluded him that long far. Zaroff invited Rainsford to join him in his hunt but Rainsford refuses. Zaroff then tells Rainsford that he will be the next person to be hunted. Zaroff locks himself in his bedroom and turns on the lights, revealing Rainsford, who had hidden by the bed curtains having swum around the island. Zaroff congratulates him on winning the "game," but Rainsford decides to fight him, and says "I'm still a beast at bay." The General accepts the challenge, saying that the loser will be fed to the dogs and the winner will sleep in his bed. Though the ensuing fight is not described, the story ends with Rainsford's observation: "He had never slept in a better bed"
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