Most Dangerous Game

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, Sanger Rainsford, a famous hunter, is skilled in the art of hunting which he had learned on his hunting trips to slow down gen. Zaroff so that he could have enough time to escape so he can win to get off “Ship Trap Island”. Rainsford, famous for his hunting, wrote books based on hunting. While on a yacht in the Caribbean Sea at night on his way to Rio, he heard gunshots and curious to see where it came from, he climbs on the rail of the yacht to have a better view and that’s when he accidentally fell off and had to swim to Ship Trap Island. There he meets Gen. Zaroff on the island and learned of his hunting habits. Zaroff wants to hunt an animal that can “reason” ; which led to Rainsford to become his new quarry. One way that Rainsford uses his knowledge of hunting to escape from Gen. zaroff is where it states “Rainford saw a huge dead tree leaning on a small living one, he got an idea to build a trap using them. He used a ‘protruding bough(a tree branch that extends) as a trigger, when Gen. Zaroff step on it, the dead tree crashed down on him. This trap is called The Malay Mancatcher which he learned in Malacca(a region just south of Thailand) which is inhabit by that Malays(people of Southeast Asia). Rainsford saw the tree taking action, hoping it will cause Gen. zaroff to be smashed on. Gen. Zaroff sense the danger, step back however it still bruised his shoulder. With Gen.Zaroff home dressing his wound, Rainsford had enough time to get further away”. Another way Rainsford uses his knowledge of hunting to escape Gen. Zaroff is where it states that “Rainsford started digging a deep hole in the earth, he climbed out, he took his knife and sharpened hard saplings to a fine point and planted them, instead of Gen. Zaroff his best dog fell through. Rainsford learned this trick called the Burmese tiger Pit in Myanmar (a country in southeast Asia) to trap tigers. Rainsford escaped further while Gen. Zaroff went