Rainsford Vs. Himself In Ship Trap Island

The story conflict man vs himself includes of Rainsford outsmarting himself. General Zaroff, one of the town's best hunter has gotten sick of hunting only animals. Zaroff has this crazy idea to hunt humans, so he brought an Island and made a way for sailors and voyagers to get trapped by creating a false channel. That is the way the island got its name: Ship Trap Island. As Rainsford fell overboard he had to swim to land. He swam by ships passing near him, and every time he got wiped out by the blood warm waves. “Desperately he struck out with strong strokes after the receding lights of the yacht, but he stopped before he had swam fifty feet” (2). As Rainsford struggle to get to land he could hear water hitting the rocks, which worried him. “Ten minutes of determined effort brought another sound to …show more content…
He swam carefully onto land were he heard the pistol shots when he knew that there was going to be other people on the island, and that there may be something unusual happening The story conflict man vs man also appears in this story, it included of human hunting. When General Zaroff bought the island to hunt there, he created a false channel. He put lights next to one another to show a safe path but he was tricking the voyagers. There was rocks between those lights which causes the ship to crash and sink, then the people on board would have to swim to near land. When Zaroff saw that Rainsford made way onto his Island he immediately went out there to greet him, General Zaroff treated