High Noon And The Most Dangerous Game Comparison Essay

High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" are both stories involving a main character who is being hunted. The main characters from each, Will Kane and Sanger Rainsford, both face similar challenges. The survival-based stories take place around the time of World War II but in different parts of the world. While High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" share similar characters, but they take place in different settings and contain different themes. Both Will Kane and Sanger Rainsford are in desperate situations— Kane against Frank

Miller and Rainsford against Zaroff. Kane and Rainsford were isolated while being hunted, meaning that they had no help. "If he does, and if we run, they'll just come after us" (Foreman 296). Frank Miller's gang would chase Kane down no matter where he went, and he was all by himself. "The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror" (Connell). Rainsford was alone on the island, being hunted down by Zaroff. Both main characters used the available resources to them. Kane used his gun and knowledge of the town, while Rainsford used traps and footprints to throw Zaroff off. The main characters of both stories are in a dire situation,

High Noon took place in a small, remote town in a desert-like area in the Midwest. "The distant bells of an o.s. church begin to toll. From another angle, a third rider gallops toward them" (Foreman 288). Since the town was small, remote, and in a desert, everyone from the town knew each other, that's how small it was. "Ten minutes of determined effort brought another sound to his ears— the most welcome he had ever heard— the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore" (Connell). "The Most Dangerous Game" takes place on a remote island near the Amazon rainforest where General Zaroff hunts at. The two stories take place in extremely unalike settings, the Midwest and an