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Survival In The Fittest Book Report
Some people crave for harder challenges in life. It's also like servile of the fittest. Zaroff wanted to have a harder challenge in a hunt so he hunts humans because animals are to producibility. Zaroff is one of the best hunters in the world and that rainford serviced the 3 days and tricked Zaroff shows he was the better survivor. A man named rainford crashed landed on a island the island was inhabited by 1 man general Zaroff. In the book Zaroff is the greatest hunter of all time animals get to easy to hunt so he starts to hunt humans for sport. In the Most dangerous game the main character rainford crash lands on the island and heard gunshots.In the story rainford says "Somewhere, off in the blackness, someone had fired a gun three times". As he swims to shore he's says Pistol shot," muttered Rainsford, swimming on. Ten minutes of determined effort brought another sound to his ears--the most welcome he had ever heard-- the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore. Rainford thinks he's safe because gunshots …show more content…
In the story rainsford had made traps so the general Zaroff would get killed or be hurt in the story, it says" The pit grew deeper; when it was above his shoulders, he climbed out and from some hard saplings cut stakes and sharpened them to a fine point. These stakes he planted in the bottom of the pit with the points sticking up."One other time Rainford made a trap for general Zaroff in the story was when "Three hundred yards from his hiding place he stopped where a huge dead tree leaned precariously on a smaller, living one"."Throwing off his sack of food, Rainsford took his knife"from its sheath and began to work with all his energy. Throw out the story Rainford shows he has survival skills and that he's a better survival than one of the best hunters in the world generally

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