Blog Assignment 1 - Silent Reading Book Introduction

2. The short story is about man named Rainsford. He and his friend are on a ship going to Rio. He is a world class hunter, and they hope to find some good game there. He fell off the boat, and swan to a nearby island. He got to shore and walked to find people, since he heard a gunshot somewhere. He found a large house. He finds an odd man living in this house. He hunts people. He challenges Rainsford to evade him on the island for 3 days, after the third day he would make sure Rainsford got home okay. Raisnford then proceedes to hide certain places. The "General" found him multiple times, but did not shoot him, but rather toy with them. Eventually Rainsford sets traps. On time it almost killed the General, the next one killed on of his hunting dogs, and the last one killed his assistant Ivan. Eventually Rainsford jumps in the water, and swims to the house, where he waits until the General comes back, and kills him.