Character Analysis: Ship-Trap Island

Rainsford becomes the new general of Ship Trap island because he becomes more violent over the course of the story. In the middle of the story when

The story opens in the Caribbean on a Brazil-bound yacht and continues on a mysterious Caribbean island. Ship - Trap island is somewhere in the tropics, in the Caribbean.  We know that there are giant rocks nearby, but Zaroff has it marked as safe passage. The location of the story takes place over the course of several nights, where Rainsford eludes the general whose most dangerous game proves to be Rainsford himself. (p) It also can be representative of a time in Rainsford's hunting days as an unguided purpose in and meaning in his

When Rainsfords finds out that General Zaroff likes to hunt humans, he feels very shocked. Rainsfords what's to get off the island before he gets killed

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

I remember the first time I ever met General Zaroff, back when this was his domain, his kingdom where he played god for sport. Many deaths came out of his thrill-seeking on Ship-Trap Island, and I took it upon myself to avenge the unfortunate souls that died at the hands of this seemingly sociopathic Cossack. I had been forced to elude him for three days, winning his awful, twisted “game”, if it could be called that. The word “game” gives off an aura of innocence, and this was in no sense innocent. He was wholeheartedly condoning cold-blooded murder, but I digress. His game went like this: He would arm his prey (which washed up from wrecked ships, hence the name “Ship-Trap Island”) with a hunting knife and a fair amount of food. Then, he would have them head off into the jungle with a three hour head start. After the three hours would run out, he would track them down and kill them. If they eluded him

As a citizen of the wonderful city of Laurel, I believe it is my duty to suggest different ideas to keep this city and its people as bright as possible. That is the reason why I believe that we should have a ‘Laurel Reads’ program. Reading is something every person needs and this program would ensure that the people of this city get what they need. Having a book for the city to read can make the entire community closer.

General Zaroff traps ships to stock his island with humans to hunt. When Rainsford washes ashore on Zaroff's island, they soon get to talking about his whole operation and the fact that

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

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.

Among all the characters of the novel The Shipping News, Quoyle endures the most powerful change and provides the one of a kind strength that drives the story onward. He is the insecure protagonist of the tale, whose self-esteem is the feature that limits him the most. In the progress of his transition as a character he not only spares himself, but his troubled family line as well. Quoyle’s solitude and agony in the beginning of the book almost extends throughout the whole story where we see him beat himself to the ground with the hard put downs and mistreatment from others. “A Flemish flake is a spiral coil of one layer only. It is made on deck, so that it may be walked on if necessary.”(Proulx 1) This first quote of the story gives a brilliant narrative of the boneless person Quoyle is. Quoyle is a powerful character who is unconfident, quiet, and an unloved person, who has been taught his whole life that he is nothing short of a failure.

Rainsford cannot sleep because he is afraid that general Zaroff is going to kill him that’s what Rainsford was thinking all night. Rainsford didn’t like what he heard from the general about, Zaroff hunting humans instead of animals. Rainsford is scared of general Zaroff because Zaroff is a hunter just like Rainsford but Zaroff is a little smarter and better than Rainsford, still Rainsford comes out on top because Rainsford strategizes better than Zaroff. Rainsford first day on Ship-Trap Island was he fell overboard on his ship and found a person named general Zaroff. Rainsford when he first come upon Ship-Trap Island he was looking for a person because he heard screams and shooting in the distance when he was on his ship with his crew members.

The story starts off with Sanger Rainsford an accomplished hunter talking to his dear friend Whitney, Rainsford and Whitney are having a conversation about the jaguars they will be hunting can’t feel anything- except fear. “The fear of pain and the fear of death” (Whitney24). When Rainsford falls overboard of the yacht he swims up to the jagged shoreline of the ship- trap island, where once there he finds General Zaroff’s palatial chateau. The island itself has a dreary feel with jagged rocks, mangled trees, with the name ship-trap island. He does not exact revenge on someone, however, he plays a cruel game. The prisoners of his island get three days if in those three days he kills them they lose, but if they survive they are allowed off the island. No one has ever made it off the island. Zaroff does this because he believes he is a superior hunter, able to hunt any animal in the world because they can’t reason to escape or show any emotion of being hunted (Rainsford24). Hunting people give him a thrill like no other, they can reason and problem solve, most likely out of fear but reason nonetheless. Rainsford is the only person to ever outsmart General Zaroff and escape the island. What General Zaroff does is malicious and is not condoned but he is upfront and not afraid to admit what he does to Rainsford. General Zaroff does not have anything planned out, what happens is just

The main character which is Rainsford is a big-game hunter, Rainsford doesn’t care about his prey. All he wants is to kill and hunt. Now from that point of view, readers can see the little bit of insanity in Rainsford by all that aggressive hunting stuff that he does. Rainsford was on a yacht and fell off of it, he ended up swimming to a rocky shore which was called Ship-Trap Island. This island was all about hunting which basically what Rainsford is, a hunter. Before Rainsford fell from the yacht he was with his friend name Whitney, saw an island which was the Ship- Trap Island, this island was a bad and unlucky place for many thing that happened. As Rainsford and Whitney were passing the island, Rainsford said, “I hold the jaguar guns have come from Prudey’s. We should have some good hunting up the Amazon. Great sport, hunting” (Connell, 1). Throughout the part when Rainsford is on the island he saw the general and his name was Zaroff. Zaroff was those types of general that always wants to win, Zaroff read Rainsford’s hunting book and told him “ I’ve read your book about hunting snow leopards in Tibet, you see”(4). As for Rainsford all he wants is for him winning the game. The only thing that could make Rainsford escape is to hunt and try to win, when actually Zaroff wants him to lose. As days passed by, the insanity of

It has been a week since the hunting game between Rainsford and General Zaroff ended. Rainsford has been hunting on the Ship-Trap Island this whole time, and he is planning on going back home to bring his family to the island, so they could live together.

Losing one’s memory can be a mysterious affliction, and the causes can be quite complex. Severe memory loss is introduced in author Oliver Sacks’ collection of stories The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and lectures given by professor Jim Davies can help with understanding of some of the concepts introduced in the book. In chapter two, The Lost Mariner, the patient Jimmie is suffering from aspects of both retrograde and anterograde amnesia, which Davies explained as loss of memory of events or facts learned before an event (the event that caused the amnesia), and loss of ability to create new memories after the event, respectively. In more detail, and in relation to our book (here, the target example), retrograde amnesia would consist of any loss of memory that happened prior to an event, such as an injury or onset of disease in Jimmie’s case. Dr. Davies’ explanation of retrograde amnesia helps to understand Jimmie’s case, where in the year 1975 he is unable to recall any events after 1945. As well, the explanation of anterograde amnesia as including symptoms such as inability to form new memories, learn information or tasks, or to recall the recent past is useful when applied to Jimmie’s experience of not being able to recall events that happened even a few minutes prior. Jimmie’s suffering from both retro and anterograde amnesia, as explained by Sacks, results from Korsakov’s syndrome – a destruction of memory caused by alcoholic