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Short Summary Of The Most Dangerous Game By General Zaroff
The most Dangerous game is about a hunter named Rainsford who fell off his boat and swam to the closest island he could find. He landed on Ship-Trap Island. He saw someone on the island and the man named General Zaroff. They talked for a while, then the next day is when things turned. Zaroff told Rainsford that he loves hunting men out of pleasure. Rainsford felt ill and didn’t want to be there anymore. After that Zaroff told Rainsford that he was going to be the next man to be hunted. The concept of the game is that the men have 2 days and 3 nights. At the midnight of the 3rd night, the man can be let free. But, before Rainsford, nobody ever made it to midnight of the 3rd night. If you get caught before twelve o’clock on the 3rd night, you

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