The Most Dangerous Game Having bad characteristics can get you into trouble, but good characteristics can get you out of the trouble you got yourself in. Mr. Sanger Rainsford gets washed up on an island called Ship-Trap Island, due to his curiosity of a gunshot. He then uses his outdoor characteristics to escape from Ivan and General Zaroff to save his life. Mr. Sanger Rainsford has some characteristics that help him escape from Ivan and General Zaroff. Rainsford’s characteristics are knowledgeable, and resourcefulness, but he had one other characteristic that got him stuck on the island. That characteristic is curiosity. Rainsford is very knowledgeable. When on Ship-Trap Island Rainsford uses his knowledge from other experiences to escape from General Zaroff and Ivan. “He thought of a native trick he had learned in Uganda. He tied his hunting knife to a springy young sapling tree with the blade pointing down the trail, and tied the sapling tree back (page 38). Rainsford is so knowledgeable that he can remember something so particular from a long time ago to save his life.
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He makes a malay mancatcher, a burmese tiger pit, and a Uganda sapling tree with the very little resources General Zaroff gave him, and the ones he found on the forest. He made a malay mancatcher out of a large dead tree, and a small living tree (page 37). I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty resourceful to me. He is that resourceful, that he will use whatever he can find, as long as it will help him
He makes a malay mancatcher, a burmese tiger pit, and a Uganda sapling tree with the very little resources General Zaroff gave him, and the ones he found on the forest. He made a malay mancatcher out of a large dead tree, and a small living tree (page 37). I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty resourceful to me. He is that resourceful, that he will use whatever he can find, as long as it will help him