Zaroff was flooded with memories and emotions when Rainsford somehow got into his home, took one of his fencing swords, and stabbed him in the chest. As the blade penetrated Zaroff’s chest everything came back to him. His childhood, him becoming the man he is, a murderer. He was overflowed with everything from his past as seconds felt like years and how slow death was approaching. He didn’t feel the blow from the gun, he didn’t even think it hit him. As he slowly free-fell to his untimely death. Death that he didn’t even know was upon him.
His father arrived home later than usual from one of his numerous hunting trips with a rather large and new animal to add to his collection of deer, tigers, elk, etc. He came home with something Zaroff had never seen in real life and most definitely not this close. Zaroff never thought he would ever see one and there it was, an elephant that had been deceased for most likely hours. His father boasted of…show more content… There was never any boredom with the creature he hunted and always something new. He felt his peak in life in this new sport.
One day, there came a loud knock on the door. He told one of his servants, Ivan, to fetch the door and to see what the commotion was about. He obeyed, and answered the door with a fierce face and a gun pointed directly at the person standing in the doorway. The man introduced himself as Sanger Rainsford. Zaroff was perplexed in hearing that this man, this hunter, was at his doorstep and saw great opportunity instantly in the idea of a most incredible hunt. He was going to hunt Rainsford and he was going to kill him.
Zaroff allowed Rainsford into his home, fed him, clothed him, and supplied him with a place to rest. Zaroff had explained to Rainsford that he was going to be part of his new sport and knew Rainsford would not turn down this offer knowing if he did he would die if he objected to his
