Rainsford Characterization

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Rainsford is a guy who likes to hunt for big game and he has a friend with him who thinks it is fun for the hunter not the hunted.Rainsford is a guy who is kind and like to hunt like any other normal man but when he heard gunfire he went to the edge of the boat and lost his favorite pipe, when he went to catch it he fell off and went into the water he hard another gun shoot and swam to the island called Ship Trap Island then he fell asleep and woke up in the morning.When he walk around he found a castle like house and that is where he meet General Zaroff and instead of a nice greeting he got a gun pointed at him by Ivan.Then General Zaroff came down and greeted him when he found out how he was he was giving him food a bed and dry clothes.Then

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