The story is about a man named Rainsford who after the boat he was on a boat that crashed into the reef or rocks and it got damaged and sunk with all of the people in it, Rainsford survived and swam ed to the shore, he heard shot guns in the air so he knew there was human life in the island he had arrived. he went looking for signs of life till he found a mansion, in there he met General Zaroff who's passion was to hunt, as they introduced to each other, the both could understand each other because they both love hunting the difference was that Rainsford was a beginner compared to the general, he had hunted for years and many animals.
Rainsford and general Zaroff had one thing in common and that was the love for hunting. they hunted with reasoning and not with instict. the only difference between them is that Rainsford didn't have had the experience as general Zaroff on hunting because the general had killed the most games around the world. another thing in common they had was that they both were well spoked and very high class and they could spoke in a way that they can connect form on anther's experience and passions for life.
The conflict in this story is man vs nature, because the conflict is about hunting and how can it be understood in different ways, for example if someone kills another human its called murder, and if someone kills an animal its called a hunt. now both of this has to do with killing a living thing and it doesn't matter what you call it murder or hunting its still taking the life of another living thing for fun or just because.this conflict is resolved by no other way than the hunt. it was the general who said that the only way that Rainsford was going home or another place other than the island to escape was to play the game of Zaroff vs Rainsford for the hunt, if Rainsford survived after 3 days Zaroff would admit defeat and let Rainsford escape the island under the condition that Rainsford wouldn't tell no one that zaroff was murdering people for game called hunt. at the end Zaroff and Rainsford were fighting hand to hand. and the winner would of be sleeping in the big bed that night. the story ends on how Rainsford says that he had never felt better in that bed, so Rainsford won and was still proud to call himself " the beast at bay ".
i think that Rainsford is not going to stay in the island because there's to much crime in it and his mission was to leave the island as soon as he got there and i don't think he would like to stay in that fierce island for more time, i think he would go back to land and tell the truth to the police about the island and general Zaroff and he would say that in his defense that he killed Zaroff self defense from he was about to do and that he had evidence in that mansion because there was proof of all murder Zaroff committed in his trophy room, i don't believe that Rainsford would become another Zaroff because he was against him from the beginning his passion was to hunt animals and not human life.
If i was rainsford i would of killed general zaroff when it was not too late before he can send me off to the island trying to hunt me because then it will be a really big risk if i got killed and died over just wanting to go home.i think general zaroff knew that he was going to win and the ironic thing was that he failed and he was shocked when he saw rainsford and was planing to kill him anyways if he survived or not thats why the broke into the fight on wich rainsford won.
