Will Rainsford Ever Hunt Again?
A normal heart rate increases to 110.1 beats per minute when you are in fear. Imagine being trapped on an island with a crazy murder. For a hunter named Rainsford, this is reality, and a nightmare. Against his will, Rainsford is forced to be prey without any escape by the merciless hunter General Zaroff. As a result, Rainsford will not hunt again due to the fact that he would panic every time he thought of his experience on Ship-trap island.
Rainsford would be traumatized from his memories on Ship-Trap island that would haunt him for the rest of his life. During the hunt, Rainsford is repeating a word over and over to calm his nerves. “Nerve, nerve, nerve” Rainsford breathes as he runs through the jungle to…show more content… Rainsford believes that not only does killing people and calling it hunting a joke, but that it also goes against your morals. The hunter thought that General Zaroff hunting humans was “a grisly joke” (Connell 27). No one has ever heard of a man killing humans for sport, this is why it sounds like a joke when General Zaroff tells Rainsford that he does this. General Zaroff tries to argue with Rainsford that fighting in a war meant that it was fine to kill other humans. Rainford thought that the war “did not make [him] condone cold blooded murder” (Connell 27). One of Rainsford’s beliefs is that fighting in a war did not mean you could murder people without negative consequences. General Zaroff does not see that hunting people is murder, even though Rainsford does. “Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder” expresses Rainsford toward the general (Connell 27). Rainsford understands that there is no difference between hunting humans and murder, in contrast, General Zaroff believes that he is just fulfilling his passion of hunting dangerous game. Rainsford would not want to hunt anymore due to the fact that if he did he might turn into General Zaroff and go
