Literary Analysis Collection: The Most Dangerous Game, With Rainsford, Harrison Bergeron

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Literary Analysis Collection 1 Stories placed in a hostile environment commonly fallow the same path containing a similar plot line but can differ in the message or characters’ personalities. Admirable examples of this layout would include, “The Most Dangerous Game,” With Rainsford, “Harrison Bergeron,” containing Harrison, and “Liberty” Using a young female narrator. These stories compare in the use of literary elements that all stories must use such as conflict, character, setting, and most of all theme. All characters must overcome different obstacles but in these stories the characters’ traits, and origin are very opposing. In these three examples the characters are faced against humans and society, Rainsford faces an army general, Harrison the future U.S. government enforcing equality, and the narrator who flees the country for freedom. The main characters also differ as they are of different traits and origins such as, Rainsford who is a calm hunter from an English-speaking country, Harrison, a tall and strong teen from Many years in the future in America, and the narrator who is a young girl who lives in a Hispanic country. …show more content…

society/ man. In both the stories, “Harrison Bergeron,” and, “Liberty” the main character denied the government as Harrison overcame his handicaps and claimed equality was wrong and the narrator in, “Liberty” her family fled from the tyranny the leader held that threatened the family’s safety. When on the other hand, Rainsford’s battle was between him and Zaroff as they attempted to kill each other in the

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