The Most Dangerous Game
...f Rainsford’s, even says how Rainford was able to spot a moose from 400 yards away. He was also able to hear and smell Zaroff coming during the game. Sanger was also in wonderful physical condition. He was able to swim from where he fell off of the yacht all the way to Ship-Trap Island. His strong endurance also enabled him to run away from General Zaroff and his pack of avid hounds. Unlike the rest of the general’s quarry, Rainsford was able to rely on his excellent hunting expertise to help himself survive Zaroff’s terrible game. Sanger Rainsford traveling all over the world as a hunter also helped him in numerous ways. Since he traveled so much, he learned very useful traps. In the beginning of the hunt, he used the Malay man-catcher. The man-catcher uses a large dead tree set on a certain angle on a live on which is activated by a protruding bough that causes the dead tree to crash down on the enemy. Although this did not kill Zaroff, it did injure his shoulder and caused him to go back to the palatial chateau for medical attention, buying Rainsford time to move on. Also along his journeys, he learned to make a Burmese tiger pit. The tiger pit is a hole with sharp stakes placed spike-side up on the bottom of the pit, which is then camouflaged by a covering. Once again, Rainsford didn’t defeat Zaroff using this trap, but he did kill the best hound in the pack. Another trap he used was a springing sapling trap from Uganda. The trap used a sapling with a knife attached to it that was tied back so when it was triggered, the sapling would spring forward and kill whatever was in its way. Using this trap, Rainsford killed Ivan, the general’s assis...