However, Zaroff’s and Rainsford’s beliefs keep them on different paths of life. For example, “ It is a very great pleasure and honor to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, to my home ” (21). In addition, “ I’ve read your book about hunting snow leopards in Tibet… ” (21). Rainsford has written books on his hunts, and is a very talented and well-known hunter. If Zaroff can beat Rainsford no other animal should give him a problem in the hunt. Also, “ God makes some men poets. Some he makes Kings, some beggars. Me he made a hunter. My hand was made for the trigger… ” (23) As well as, “ Hunting was beginning to bore me; and hunting remember, had been my life ” (24). Hunting is Zaroff’s life, he was born a natural hunter. However, when Zaroff gets bored he could use those abilities and skills to go to awful measures. Also, “ Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder ” (25). Zaroff’s passion to hunt, has brought him to do despicable things. Hunting animals is one thing, a sport, it’s another to murder for the fun of it or for your own desire of killing. Lastly, “ Life is strong, to be lived by the strong, and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure. I am strong...I hunt the scum of the earth… ” (25). Zaroff’s passion to hunt is relentless, hunting animals is a sport, …show more content…
Rainsford now understands how the animals he hunts feel. How their life is constantly in danger and how they have to fend for their life. He realizes how it feels to become helpless and how hard it is to fight back. Zaroff has never experienced that because he would always be the hunter, until Rainsford came along and actually fought back. He used his wits and used the material he was given to beat Zaroff in his own game. In conclusion, the characters learn that all life matters. As Zaroff said, he 's hunting the weak, but the weak can have an impact on the world too. Everyone that is in this world is here for a reason, everyone deserves to get a chance at impacting the world for the greater good. Rainsford learns that all life matters when he gets hunted. Zaroff’s underestimation of Rainsford leaves him understanding that “all life matters” because Rainsford shows him a lesson on how it feels when the tables are turned. Zaroff and Rainsford have both learned very important lessons from Zaroff’s dangerous game, that all life is precious and to never underestimate the power that someone can hold over one 's