High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are alike and different in many ways. Both stories/movie both of the main characters are faced with death. Both of the main characters were caught off guard with the situations. In the most dangerous game the main character had more time to prepare. While they are alike and different both stories created a high level of suspense.
Both Rainsford and Will Kane are faced with death. The only thing Will Kane has to fight with is himself because no one will help him. The only thing Rainsford has to fight with is a hunting knife. Will Kane only had a little over an hours notice the Frank Miller was coming. Rainsford had know choice but to play the most dangerous game because he couldn't believe because he is you're at school you have no choice but to fight. All of these created a level of suspense.
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"[Ext. Alley—On Mitchell shooting toward stable— as Mitchell flings the third lamp towards the stable. It takes a high arc and lands near the staple. Then Mitchell takes careful in, and fires. We see one of the lamps explode, bouncing crazily against stable and splattering fire against it. Mitchell fires again, misses his target, fires again, hits it. There is another explosion, and another splash of oil and fire on the stable door.]" (Forman 330). "Stationmaster (breathless). "Marshal—! Telegram for you— (As he hands it to Kane) It's just terrible! It's shocking! (Forman 292). Finally Kane kills Frank Miller, Colby, and
There are many similarities and differences between the story “The Most Dangerous Game” and the episode of Gilligan's Island that we watched. Some similarities include: someone is being hunted, the setting is similar, and both victims get away in the end. Some differences include: the moods of the stories, the strategies that are used by the huntees, and how the hunter got to the island.
The two story High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" are alike in some ways, but very different in many other ways also. High Noon is a story about an honest man named will khan; Who is a Marshall that has sent a prisoner to jail named frank Miller. Who has now come out of jail to get revenge on will. When will needs the towns people of hadleyville for help to defeat frank when he comes after will no one helps. In the other hand "The Most Dangerous Game" is about two very skilled hunter between Rainsford who get trapped on Ship-Trap island by Zaroff who owns the island. When Rainsford realizes what Zaroff hunts in his island he must leave as soon as possible. Zaroff tells Rainsford he could either hunt with him or against him.
The two short stories had many differences like time period, but had a huge common similarity, murder. The murder in the “Full Circle” was done out of jealousy and “The Most Dangerous Game” was done for sport. Some of the most
Being hunted on an island is an experience like no other, whether it is a film or a short story. “The Most Dangerous Game” started off as a short-story, but was later turned into a film. Like many other films, the director has done some adjustments that differ from the short-story. The plot, setting, and characters were revised from the original form in the short-story. However, the difference in the characters was the most influential part that changed throughout the film.
The author of “The Most Dangerous Game” is Richard Connell. Richard Connell is an American author and journalist, who wrote a lot of short stories and few novels. His short stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly. While he was still in high school, Richard Connell was hired as the city editor for sixteen dollars a week. He studied college at Georgetown University, while working as a secretary for his father, who had been elected to Congress. After his father’s death, he moved to Harvard, and started writing for two college newspapers. After graduating, he transferred to New York, but he also left a brief stint in the army during World War |. After that, he moved to Los Angeles and began to write screenplays for major Hollywood movie studios. Richard Connell’s most famous story is “The Most Dangerous Game”, which is still widely read, even nowadays. It has inspired many movies and it’s probably the most frequently anthologized American story.
The IC decided that the first thing that needed to be done was to contain the fire and get it extinguished as soon as possible. Then the IC divided the situation into three primary sections Tower 1, Tower 2 and the Vista Hotel. The bomb had detonated right below the Vista Hotel and thick black smoke was quickly filling the two towers. He then c...
"Kane staggers from a bullet in the shoulder, but keeps shooting, and Mitchell goes dow, his guns slipping from his fingers" (Foreman 332). Will Kane has killed Frank Mitchell even though he was wounded and didn't have anybody else who could kill Mitchell for him. He is dead due to the fact that Kane didn't want to run away from him. Rainsford also killed Zaroff because he knew that Zaroff was coming to kill him in the game. "He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided" (Connell 232). Zaroff said before that the winner gets to sleep in his own bed. Rainsford got to sleep in the bed because he killed him. However, why did he choose his bed, and not the others in the mansion? Rainsford was starting to become like him. Kane and Rainsford are both good in the reader's eyes but are both
Throughout our lives, it seems when we have no one else to help us, our most challenging problems occur leaving ourselves to use our wit and emotion to persevere. People can have test or a big game where we have teachers and coaches to help us prepare and succeed. However, in the movie, High Noon, a Marshall named Will Kane is faced with a challenge of an arriving Frank Miller looking to kill. In the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game", a hunger named Rainsford is deserted on a island after he fell off his yacht, and he would soon find out a sociopath with the unique taste for hunting down humans was out for him. With the two characters in these suspense-building products somewhat trapped we can take out many lessons and ideas from the action packed movie and short story. The movie, High Noon, and the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game, are alike and at the same time very different.
The story The Most Dangerous Game says, “his pipe;striking a rope, was knocked from his mouth. He lunged for it...he realized he reached too far.” When he dropped his pipe he tried to grab for it but reached to far and ended up falling into the sea. The next conflict Rainsford faced was either to play the game with Zaroff or go with Ivan. While reading this story Zaroff says “you'll find this game worth playing.” Rainsford didn’t think he would have to play the game but Zaroff said he either has to play or go with Ivan and be killed. The last conflict Rainsford faced was hiding from Zaroff. The story said, “the job was finished and he threw himself down behind a log 100 feet away.” Rainsford has to be smart when he is hiding, so he built a trap for Zaroff to be stuck under. Finally, during the story Rainsford overcame many
Rainsford was furious and he didn't want any part of that serial killer to stay alive. He had found the General’s pistol the night before in his nightstand. That afternoon, after a splendid lunch, Rainsford set out to hunt his hunter.
Sanger Rainsford has to overcome many obstacles he faces to not become what he fears, the hunted. When he is sprinting away from General Zaroff he has to fight the urge to quit, and he has to fight the battle of “The Most Dangerous Game.” He is running from the hounds, Ivan, and General Zaroff, when he arrives at a safe place he thinks about how close he was to becoming what he fears. Nevertheless, Sanger Rainsford out wits everything he has experienced and wins “The Most Dangerous Game.”
In the movie High Noon, the only action that happens in the movie is at the end, which is weird for a movie set in the Wild West. Most of the movie is Kane asking people to be deputies and having no one volunteer. When he goes into the bar, he says, "I need deputies. I'll take as many as I can get" (Connell). No one responds and Kane repeats this process asking everyone he knows and no one volunteers. This adds more and more build-up. The movie also shows clocks in nearly every scene to increase tension and build-up. In The Most Dangerous Game, no action happens until the end, which is just like High Noon. Most of the story is just Rainsford and General Zaroff having a conversation, but it slowly reveals more and more about the general, which builds up tension. When Rainsford realized that he was being hunted, he told the general "I wish to go today" to which the general said "We will hunt-you and I" (Connell). This part of the story only adds more build-up. Although the plots of the stories are different. They both have a lot of
Each character was a hunter, Will Kane, a marshal, and Rainsford, a hunter himself, but they turn into the hunted. “‘Get ready, General Zaroff’... ‘I see,’ he said. ‘Splendid! One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed. On guard, Rainsford’... He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided” (Connell 232). Rainsford was being hunted by the General for three whole days until he kills the hunter, Zaroff. Both characters turned from a hunter to the hunted. In High Noon, Kane says, “I guess you all know why I’m here. I need deputies. I’ll take as many as I can get” (Foreman 306). Kane used to hunt the criminals, now he is being hunted by the criminals and needs help. No one helps him though. In both of these stories they are very different in what the character has to do, in one the character has to do in order to survive, and in the other, the character has to kill people in order to survive. Although, both are the same in the idea of hunter to
"After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain" (332). This last line of the novel gives an understanding of Ernest Hemingway's style and tone. The overall tone of the book is much different than that of The Sun Also Rises. The characters in the book are propelled by outside forces, in this case WWI, where the characters in The Sun Also Rises seemed to have no direction. Frederick's actions are determined by his position until he deserts the army. Floating down the river with barely a hold on a piece of wood his life, he abandons everything except Catherine and lets the river take him to a new life that becomes increasing difficult to understand. Nevertheless, Hemingway's style and tone make A Farewell to Arms one of the great American novels. Critics usually describe Hemingway's style as simple, spare, and journalistic. These are all good words they all apply. Perhaps because of his training as a newspaperman, Hemingway is a master of the declarative, subject-verb-object sentence. His writing has been likened to a boxer's punches--combinations of lefts and rights coming at us without pause. As illustrated on page 145 "She went down the hall. The porter carried the sack. He knew what was in it," one can see that Hemingway's style is to-the-point and easy to understand. The simplicity and the sensory richness flow directly from Hemingway's and his characters' beliefs. The punchy, vivid language has the immediacy of a news bulletin: these are facts, Hemingway is telling us, and they can't be ignored. And just as Frederic Henry comes to distrust abstractions like "patriotism," so does Hemingway distrust them. Instead he seeks the concrete and the tangible. A simple "good" becomes higher praise than another writer's string of decorative adjectives. Hemingway's style changes, too, when it reflects his characters' changing states of mind. Writing from Frederic Henry's point of view, he sometimes uses a modified stream-of-consciousness technique, a method for spilling out on paper the inner thoughts of a character. Usually Henry's thoughts are choppy, staccato, but when he becomes drunk the language does too, as in the passage on page 13, "I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you
To begin with, the setting for “The Most Dangerous Game” is very fitting. The author, Richard Connell, picked the best place to set the story. Reason being, the mansion is on a large island that is feared by everyone. Also the mansion, on the outside at least, looks scary. Since it was dark out and there were cliffs surrounding the house, there was a scary shadow that was cast down. While on the yacht, Sanger Rainsford, the main character or protagonist, came across this island and asked for the name. His friend Whitney replied, “The old charts call it ‘Ship Trap Island’,” (Connell). Ship Trap Island is the name of the island. It doesn’t sound like a happy place to be but it is the dark and violent thoughts and feelings that come with the title, which perfectly fits the theme of the story. Another form of proof, to tell where the story took place is in this quote, “…the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea dosed over his head” (Connell). Rainsford went to get a closer look to see the island more clearly by stepping on the rail. He lost his balance and fell...