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The Most Dangerous Game Story Summary
The story "The Most Dangerous Game" is about two men; Rainsford, and General Zaroff. The two friends, Whitney and Rainsford are traveling in a boat to Africa to go hunting for jaguars. As they are sailing past an island, Whitney brings up these "rumors" about this island and how its so bad. He spoke of it's name called "Ship Trap Island". Ship Trap Island has a reputation of cannibals being on the island. Rainsford has little belief in this rumor of the island. Whitney on the other hand believes much of it. So as the two men are sailing on, Whitney heads in for the night and travels below deck. Rainsford decides to light another pipe and then turn in. Rainsford falls off his boat and washes up on the shores of Ship Trap Island. As they arrive there they hear a series of gunshots and sounds they have never herd before. He walks more onto the island and he meets these two men General Zaroff and Ivan the butler. Zaroff invites Rainsford in for a bed and meals. Then, they eat dinner and Zaroff tells Rainsford about his "game". That night Zaroff goes "hunting". Rainsford gets a good night sleep and during breakfast the next day finds out that he is the new prey. He is given his supplies and sets of around three in the afternoon. Zaroff hunts him later that night. he leaves no trail and hides in a tree, but Zaroff finds him but he leaves him be for another day. The next day, Rainsford found himself in the swamp and came up with a brilliant idea. He dug a pit, and laid out sharpened stakes at the bottom and covered the top with leaves. Zaroff lost a dog but nothing more. Zaroff left for some sleep as did Rainsford, but he was woken early by a pack of dogs. he caught a sapling, tied his knife to it, and left it there for someone to run into it. Ivan was the poor soul to be killed. From there, Rainsford jumped into the water, swam around this island, and surprised Zaroff in his own room. they fought for the bed that night. Rainsford was never more comfortable. [|Full Short Story] Click here for quiz questions!


 * __Rainsford__-** One of the main characters who is a hunter of equal skill to General Zaroff. he lands on the island and windes up swiming to the island, and is hunted. he was the first, and probably the only, one to win.

__**Whitney**__- Rainsford's friend. not much is revealed about him.

__**General Zaroff**__- The second main character that is an extremely well groomed man and is highly skilled in hunting. he lives in a masnion on ship wreck island. he is bored with hunting animals so he made a game of hunting humans. he uses a fake channel to lure ships into rocks and uses the crew for his game. Zaroff is a cozack

__**Ivan**__- Ivan is General's Zaroff's assistant. Zaroff describes him as deaf and dumb (and my dumb he means mute). Whoever refuses to hunt with Zaroff, Ivan takes them and does what ever he wants to them.like Zaroff Ivan is a cozack.

**SYMBOLS/THEMES:** The island itself is a symbol. It represents the boundary between reason and inhumanity.

When Rainsford heard a strange cry from an animal, he didn't know what it came from. He didn't recognize it because it was not from a animal it was from a human.

"The old charts called it Ship-Trap Island," Whitney replied. "A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition-"page 10 This quote is referring to the island in the distance. Whitney and Rainsford heard a gunshot, so Whitney described the superstitions of the island. The island is "cursed". Ships get wrecked and wash up onto the coast of the island. The men who were on the ships were never seen again.
 * QUOTES AND EXPLANATIONS:**

"I wanted the ideal animal to hunt, so i said 'What are the attributes of an ideal quarry?' and the answer was, of course: ' It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason.'" In this quote, Zaroff is telling Rainsford that he has found the perfect creature to hunt. Rainsford soon figures out that Zaroff is talking about hunting people.

"He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided." Rainsford and Zaroff made a bet that if Rainsford won the game that he could sleep in Zaroff's bed that night. This quote infers that Rainsford had won the game.

"We'll Visit my training school, smiled the general. It is in the cellar. I have about a dozen there now They're from the spanish bark, Sanlucar, which had the bad luck to go on the rocks out there. An inferior lot, I regret to say , and more accustomed to the deck than the jungle." page 16 The general is refering to the men he is keeping in the cellar, which he will eventually hunt.        