Rainsford Alternate Ending

“So it was you who killed my father? You know what this means right Mr.Rainsford? I’ll have to finish what my father couldn’t. I’ll give you approximately three days to leave this island. At the end of the three days, I’ll come search for you, and if I find you I’ll kill you. So let the hunt begin.”

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

When Rainsford got to the cellar, he couldn’t believe what he saw. A room jam packed with people of all kinds. They looked miserable. None of them wanted to begin the game. Every one of them sat there dreadful. They knew they had no chance. Each of them expected to die.

Rainsford came along a gigantic building and meets Zaroff. At this moment Zaroff come to see that Rainsford is a talented hunter. Rainsford and Zaroff come to find that they have many different and similar thoughts on hunting. Zaroff come to find out hunting had began to become boring so he created a new animal to hunt. Zaroff believes

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

The General goes back to his mansion pleased that he has killed Rainsford. But Rainsford returns alive and finds his way back to the general. The general gives Rainsford the win but Rainsford does not care about the win, he wants to defeat the general once and for all. He attacks the general and kills him beating the

Rainsford felt proud and terrible for what he had done. He had killed a man although Zerof and Ivan where not entirely innocent. He struggled to decide what he was, a hero or a murderer. He felt that maybe he only needed someone to come with him on his journey to get off the island and to keep himself from going insane. Rainsford went to go and free the prisoners or as Zerof said pupils of ship trap island. Only two where currently trapped on the island the rest must have left or died. Gregory and Wilhelm were looking surprisingly happy perhaps they did not know the fate that they were going to face if they stay. Rainsford said, “ It’s not safe here and you no longer need to stay here and be forced to train for another man’s amusement and I suggest you come with me or you can stay and eventually starve so I give you a choice come with me or stay and die.” Greg decided to come along, wilhelm thought Rainsford was lying and crazy so he stayed and trained soon Wilhelm will realize no one was going to bring him food and he will starve he locked the door so he could not get out and get food he made the wrong choice.

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 also kept his head bald so it wouldn’t interfere, but now his head wasn’t bald because he didn’t have anything to shave with on the island.Yet out of all the things Rainsford thought about in the ocean his mind constantly drift back to how he was to get out of this situation. But nevertheless he began to swim in the direction of General Zaroff’s home. He swam and swam until he saw lights . He got out of the water and began to walk towards the lights not thinking but acting on instinct . Then there was a rustling in the bushes and there appeared a dog a big dog which looked very hungry. The dog began to growl and off instinct and not reason Rainsford ran and ran towards the house but the dog was getting closer so he kept running but the dog had got him . Before Rainsford knew it the dog was on top of him eating at his flesh and tearing it away. Rainsford lates there completely giving up. Then a voice boomed through the darkness it was the voice of General Zaroff’s. The dog stopped and took of in the opposite direction of the voice . Then there was no longer a voice but footsteps getting closer and

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.

Rainsford's eyes closed as he fell into deep sleep. For many silent peaceful hours he slept. Finally after manys days he could sleep without a worry. Nothing was going to wake Rainsford up out of this deep sleep.”Bark bark”, Rainsford hears in background, “Bark bark”, the barking gets louder what could it be he thinks to himself crawling out of the bed he desperately doesn't want to get out of but his drive and curiosity pulls him out like someone pulling off a band aid. Looking out the window he sees nothing besides the usual, he doesn't see a mysterious dog running around. The smallest part of Rainsford thought it could be the General's dog but it wasn’t he was long gone. Sundly Rainsford thought where is the General ? Is he hiding and going

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

The day after, Rainsford woke up from his comfy sleep. He gulped his milk, devoured his cookies, then rushed out Château’s main door to check the dog pen. In Rainsford mind, he thought the dogs were extra hungry, because General Zaroff had vanished. “Now let's get back to our happy life!” he shouted. Little did he know, a big surprise was in wait for him.

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.