Brief Summary: The Most Dangerous Game

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Rainsford woke up that morning from the best night’s sleep he has ever had. He wakes up like it is a normal morning in New York, he changes into new clothes and makes himself some breakfast. After Rainsford had a wonderful homemade breakfast he decided to do some exploring of the house. Upstairs in General Zaroff’s room he found a huge safe filled with guns and ammo. These guns were illegal to own in the United States and Rainsford was wondering where he could possibly get such rare infantry. He started to believe that Zaroff and Ivan had another secret that Rainsford didn’t know about. Rainsford then went down stairs to the room of death…. The room where are the dead is hung on the wall. He saw so many dead animal heads and unfortunately human heads. …show more content…
Trying to get that image out of his head Rainsford started walking to the ocean so he can figure out the best place to make his departure. When he got to the edge of the cliff, the terrifying memory of him jumping came back to him and he said “Hunters can become the hunted in a second,” realized Rainsford. He tried to forget all that happened to him in that last week and just tried to figure out a way back home. The best way to get back to the main land was to make a raft and leave early in the morning, when the tide retreats, thought Rainsford. He also decided to start building a raft today and plans to leave in two days. These two days would by him so time to build a suitable raft and collect all the items for the grueling journey back home. Once he got back to the house he decided to find a machete to cut branches to build his raft, which he found leaning up against the stairwell. As Rainsford was out collecting wood he heard a sound, that sound sounded like an airplane. Rainsford ran out of the forest as fast as he possibly could he saw the airplane fly over him. The plane was abnormally low and might be searching for

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