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Brief Summary Of Ship-Trap Island

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A famous hunter named Sanger Rainsford falls overboard a ship and swims to “Ship-Trap Island”. Upon walking to a huge house, he is confronted by another hunter named General Zaroff. Zaroff takes him in and gives him food and clothes. That night General Zaroff explains how he’s hunted every animal and he is no longer is fascinated by hunting animals because it has become too easy for him. Now all the humans that he traps on his island he feeds then hunts, to him humans are so much more fun because humans are cunning and have intelligence. The General then tells Rainford that he will hunt him the next day. The next day Rainsford is equipped with some food and a sharp tactical knife then he is let out into a jungle where Zaroff will follow that

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