Hunter Being Hunted In Carl Foreman's The Most Dangerous Game

Hunter being Hunted

Adults as well as children long for action movies, or stories with an intensive plot involved with killing or violence. However, what if you were the hunter being hunted, meaning you were the predator's next prey. Of the year 1952, Carl Foreman wrote Highnoon, a screenplay, involving a man wanting revenge with three other of his friends to hunt the town's most respected marshal. As the suspense grew more and more in the dry town of Hadleyville, a showdown of events happened before a blink of an eye. Then again, what if you were forced to face a hunter in the middle of an island with nothing other than a small knife? The author of the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," which was Richard Connell wrote out the most interesting and well planned out "game." Although these two stories may have conspicuous differences, their situation is greatly similar.

It's not how the setting looks like, but it's about the mood that was brought to the character. As Will Kane was brought to shame by many of his "friends," he was left alone with nothing but the dust and the bystanders watching him from a distance because of their cowardice self. "Kane walks steadily to the hotel. The street seems empty except for him, but Kane has the feeling that eyes are watching him" (Connell 303). This quote shows isolation that was brought to him while he was walking alone on the street. On the other hand, Sanger Rainsford was stuck on Ship trap island without Whitney, or any of this friends. "Dense jungle came down to the very edge of the cliffs" (Connell 215). Even though, this description doesn't have many words, the reader can picture how alone and small Rainsford is compared to the island he is about to face. Again, this setting shows a great example of