Most Dangerous Game Vs High Noon Short Story

Man vs Man; the winner survives, the loser dies. High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" both demonstrate that in excellent ways. The 1952 movie High Noon is about a town marshal named Will Kane who arrested a man named Frank Miller. Miller wanted revenge so he returned to the town to try to kill Kane. The short story "The Most Dangerous Game" was written in 1924. In it, a hunter named Sanger Rainsford gets stranded on an island. There, he meets one of the top hunters in the world, named General Zarroff. After refusing to hunt, Rainsford is told that he has to survive three days on the island without being hunted by Zarroff. High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" are two similar stories that are told in different ways. One of the main examples of that is the setting. High Noon takes place in a western town in the middle of nowhere. Since it took place a long time ago, there were few forms of long-distance transportation. “Countryside -

After failing to get anyone to help, Kane must kill Miller and his gang, before they kill him. “Smiling, Ben hands him two guns. Frank takes no chances” (Foreman 327-328). While they are all getting ready to kill him, Kane panics, but along with the help of his newlywed, Amy, they win the battle. The only difference between the two conflicts is that in "The Most Dangerous Game", General Zarroff is a complete sociopath. “My dear fellow,’ said the general, ‘there is one that can’” (Connell 221). He is explaining that on this island, he hunts humans, because that is the only animal that can truly think. Zarroff will never feel bad at all that he is trying to kill Rainsford, so there is now ay out of it. In the end, Rainsford surprises him, by hiding in the Zarroff’s bedroom and killing him. Even though they seem different, they are pretty much the same exact thing. Both trying to get killed by an evil person, and they kill the antagonist in the