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Rainsford's Rising Action

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Exposition Rainsford was traveling on a yacht. Rainsford enjoyed hunting. Rainsford speaks with whitney about hunting. Whitney then asked rainsford how do you think animals feel during the hunt. Rainsford answers with it's just an animal anyways. Rising action Rainsford fell in after trying to catch his pipe. Once he fell in he really changed his attitude. Now he doesn't think he’s all that now. Now all that rainsford can do is try to figure out what way the gunshots came from. He thinks that they came from the right. Climax Zaroff wants to hunt down his guest like a “beast”. Now rainsford finds himself being the pray. Rainsford don't like that feeling. Now it's life or death for rainsford. Falling action Zaroff is really good at killing

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