Rainsford Dialectical Journal

Rainsford wakes up the following morning. Everything in the house is quiet, and he feels alone. Rainsford gets up out of bed and he feels an ache in his neck from something hard in the pillow. He lifted it up to find a knife with blood stains sitting under the pillow. Rainsford didn’t know what to do next, but he knew last night was one of the best he’s ever had. As he sits in the dining room and eats out of fine china, he thinks he might as well give hunting humans a try since killing two the last few days didn’t hurt him at all. He starts walking outside and locates the cellar that holds all the other prisoners from crashed ships. Whenever he walked in, the captives hopped up in excitement thinking they were being rescued because it was someone other than Zaroff walking in. Rainsford main thought was to give the prisoners false hope just to shut it down by hunting them in the end. He slowly walks down the aisle and looks at each prisoner, and lets them out one by one. They all didn’t know what to do next, but each one of them wanted to get off the island as soon as possible. There was no way of contacting people from the island, so the only way of getting away was to build a boat or raft and go towards the closest mainland. Whenever the prisoners got out, they went to the woods and started harvesting some wood.
When thinking about it, Rainsford knew he could wait one night before doing any damage. Twenty-four hours later, Rainsford starts thinking about his attack strategies on the captives. He goes back up to General Zaroff’s bedroom and flips over the dead corpse on the ground. As Rainsford loots the metallic pistol off Zaroff, one of the prisoners walks up behind and said, “Rainsford?”

“Please tell everyone that I’m coming tonight,” replied Rainsford.

The prisoner looked down at the weapon clenched in Rainsford’s hand, and