Sanger Rainsford's Beliefs

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This paper will show how Sanger Rainsford is compelled by a number of events that cause him to change his mind about what it is like to be hunted as an animal. Rainsford and his friend Whitney disagreed as to whether a animal can experience fear. Whitney believed that animals do experience fear when being hunted by humans. Rainsford said that animals don’t experience fear. If they did, humans should not really care.

Events that occur on the Island of Ship-Trap challenged the beliefs of Rainsford. It became very evident during his initial stay on the Island that General Zaroff was interested in hunting humans. The general expressed how he had become bored with hunting animals. He felt that the big-game hunter, Rainsford would present

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