Rainsford In Aldous Huxley's The Most Mysterious Game

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In a short story "The Most Dnagerous Game" the following necessities are included: physical strength, intelligence, and instincts. This book is mostly about a young man, who is named Sanger Rainsford, finding out that he is being hunted by a general, who is named General Zaroff. Rainsford didn't expect for general Zaroff to be such an addict to hunting, but he had noticed something strangely awkward about the general, but he didn't find out until later when he told him he liked to hunt things that has courage, cunning, and ability to reason. Rainsford has his reasonings and he learned this by taking a trip with a general, who hunts humans, but Rainsford also had his physical strength to stand up to the general and not just run all the time.

Rainsford physical strength is greater than I had imagined it to be. Physical strength is always
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He knew how to get his way around. He tricked general zarofff by walking in a straight line down the forest, then he turns back around and follow that line back. He gave the general slightly confusion but he had got passed his tricks so Rainsford came up with a second plan. With his second plan, Rainsford hid in a tree until the third plan. His third plan is when he was almost face to face with general Zaroff. Rainsford ran all the way through the forest until he came across a flowing stream. General Zaroff was getting closer to him so he jumped into the stream and when Zaroff got caught up he noticed that Rainsford was gone. Zaroff sat down and he drunk from his latch of water. If it wasn't for Rainsford instincts he would've been dead.

Rainsford instincts are perfect because he noticed who general Zaroff was when he first met him. He knew that there was something very odd about him. His instincts are like super powers. Because he could simply tell what type of person General Zaroff was. His strength, intelligence, and instincts helped Rainsford get through this dangerous

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