General Zaroff’s Ship Trap Island General Zaroff was a very wealthy Cossack man, who was able to secure his money he inherited from his father through investment. He was forced out of his country after the fall of their government. Zaroff believed he was meant to be a hunter, because that is what he had done his entire life. The general killed animals at a very young age, fought in the military, and he even went all across the world hunting some of the most amazing game. Even though he had conquered many types of game that was not enough for him anymore. His life had become one big hunt and he needed to satisfy this thirst for the most dangerous game of all time. General Zaroff grew bored with hunting eventually because he was so good at it and always got his game. He needed a game with instinct and an animal just would not do anymore. General Zaroff finally new what game he wanted as his ultimate hunt. He needed to find a place where he could be free to engage in this twisted desire to hunt this dangerous …show more content…
Sanger Rainsford was a guest in General Zaroff’s home who had fallen off a yacht and needed to get back home. Zaroff tells Rainsford, “The island is called Ship Trap” (Connell). Zaroff had already invented a new game to hunt on the island. General Zaroff just had to find a way to get the game he wanted to hunt on the island. He installed channel lights, giving him the ability to turn these lights on and off as he pleased. "They indicate a channel," he said, "where there's none; giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as I crush this nut" (Connell). The channel lights could lure ships closer to the island and he could cause them to become shipwrecked. This would lead the person or persons on the ship usually sailors to be left stranded on his island. General Zaroff would then use these shipwrecked sailors as his hunting