High Noon And The Most Dangerous Game Comparison Essay

Both of the stories High Noon, and "The Most Dangerous Game," are great stories that have many things in common. In High Noon the main character Will has to fight our people at once, and "In The Most dangerous Game" Rainsford has to fight a pack of dogs, and two humans, by being smart, and using his wit. In the end both characters overcome great obstacles, and survive what threatened them. Also in both of the stories the characters have to be very brave, and smart to survive. These two stores have many things in common, but one major thing that they have is that their themes are very strong, and helped their main characters survive. In both of the stories the main characters have very different jobs. "They've got a new marshal-! Kane: Won't be here till tomorrow. Seems to me I've got to stay awhile (he reaches for his star.) anyway I'm the same man with or without this"(Foreman 296). His shows how even though he could have quit his job completely, and run away he still stays to fight the antagonist of the movies Miller, as the town's sheriff. "This hot weather is making you soft Whitney. Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes-- the

"You and Me against Mitchell, and all four of em" (Foreman 322). The theme for High Noon is not to wait for other people to do things for you, or help you do them yourself. In this quote Herb is in disbelief that only he volunteered, and later leaves Will to fend for himself. "The general made one of his deepest bows. " I see," he said. "Splendid! One of us to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep on this very excellent bed. On guard Rainsford." He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided" (Conell 15). In "The Most Dangerous Game" the theme is hunt of be hunted, and in this scene Rainsford kills his hunter. In both of these stories the main character is the underdog, but both of them overcome the