Essay My Most Dangerous Game

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.

Rainsford’s blood turned cold as the hairs on the back of his neck stood straight. Turning around slowly, his eyes caught the sight of the one man he wish to not see.

Rainsford can feel his arms getting weaker every stroke he takes,every time he moves his arm it feels like 100 more bounds are added to it. The only thing that keeps him going is the sight of Zaroff’s window. He plans to swim to zaroff’s window and hide there until he returns and rainsford will fight zaroff to end this horrible nightmare.he’s not to far from the land that is above the window. As he swims further he suddenly stumps his toe on what feels like land! He finally can touch the ground with his feet.rainsford reaches land and with a great big breath he collapses onto the dry grainy sand.because he is overcome with exhaustion he falls into a deep and soundless slumber.

Rainsford return to the Mansion and begins to look around everywhere. He proceeds to the room with all the heads and begins laughing uncontrollably. Then he goes to the basement and sees a lot of dead bodies. They all appear to have been tortured and beat to death which was done by Ivan. Rainsford starts beating the bodies that are dead for no reason and doesn’t stop. He then heads back upstairs then grabs a drink and he sits down in peace.

Rainsford got a thrill from winning the game and will began to hunt again. Rainsford’s comfort in Zaroff’s bed shows his excitement on winning. Rainford that “he had never slept in a better bed.” (36) After he thought that his trap had succeed he almost gave his cover after jumping to celebrate his win.

The general stops and brings out a horn and blows it to call his servant and his attack dogs. Now Rainsford is being chased by the General with his servant and attack dogs. Rainsford has to think fast and uses is hunter instincts even more to get away.

When he woke up, Rainsford climbed up to atop of a tree. He could see his pursuers coming and it was not just Zaroff, it was also Ivan and the dogs. But Rainsford remembered a trick from Uganda. He took his knife and fastened it to a springy sapling and tied that to a grapevine. Then he ran for his life as soon as the hounds picked up his trail. As soon as Rainsford thought that they would’ve reached the tree, he climbed a tree, and saw Ivan dead with the knife in him. “Nerve, Nerve, Nerve” (Connell 27). He panted as he started to run again. Then Rainsford Jumped into the deep blue

Rainsford stands there dazed for a moment but then hears a loud crash in the undergrowth and becomes vigilant. He creeps towards the noise but he steps on a small branch that was hidden underneath a pile of leaves and the animal becomes aware of his presence and stills to try and listen. The animal twitches

As Rainsford goes to bed each night and wakes up in the woods, he losses sleep and energy and begins to look weak and frail. One day as Rainsford was walking down the road past a family's home and over heard the mother saying' "Oh our dear child, why did he have to die so soon!"

He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided. Rainsford becomes what Zaroff was before he died-a murderer. Rainsford viciously destroys all of Zaroff’s mounts by going into the dining room and throwing the mounts outside the house. When he finished heaving the large animals out onto the lawn, he walked precariously down the stairs to the entrance and then outside. He found a can of gas in the cellar along with twenty other sailors.

Trying to keep his sanity the self questioning Rainsford stop’s as he see’s something flash out of the corner of his eye. A very faint dark figure runs back toward the mansion. Following an extreme speed that came out of nowhere he desperately tried to catch up with the mystery figure. Was that General? Rainsford

Rainsford was sitting in a small square room with a reporter that was recording his story. He had survived this nightmare that nobody thought possible till they had arrived to the island and found him and the body of the General. Nobody wanted to believe what Rainsford had gone through was true. It happened almost five years earlier and this was the story he told.

The next morning Rainsford woke up to the sound of his annoying alarm. He went to the kitchen made coffee, and sat on the couch to watch TV. He had been extremely exhausted from fighting the general. However, something didn’t seem right it was too quiet. He steps outside and see’s his neighbor, but with a quick glance it looked like the general. Once he blinked his eyes, he realized his neighbor was just being friendly and decided to wave hello. He seemed confused, thought it was maybe because he was tired. So he went back inside set his coffee on the table and went back to the room and took a

So after going down to the cellar Rainsford brought everybody upstairs, gave them clean clothes and asked for their names so he could find out about them in all of the papers that he had found in the office looking room. Then for most of that night Rainsford was in the room with the enormous desk he had found upstairs earlier that day and looked up how everybody from the cellar had landed on the island and just different things about them.

Rainsford woke up the next morning within plain sight of the castle. Its ominous towers stared down at him unmercifully. “They’re just toying with me.” He muttered under his breath. “General Zaroff is all about the hunt. Rainsford knew immediately that he could use this to his advantage. All he had to do was live out the day.