High Noon Character Analysis

Though both stories have so many differences, they also share many similarities. Both stories, “The Sniper” and “The Most Dangerous Game”, have a dark, serious mood. This mood makes both stories more exciting and suspenseful. Both stories are about risks, which mean that deaths will happen in the story.

High Noon, which is an old western type of movie, is about a sheriff named Will Kane that has to fight to save his town. "The Most Dangerous Game", which is a short story about a man named Rainsford who has to fight for his survival. High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" have similar main characters and similar story patterns, but have a different overall theme.

The settings are extremely different being located in different locations and time periods but both of the settings revolve around how alone they feel. During both of the stories the main characters are similar and with the way the handle things also defines them symmetrical, but how the character becomes in the end of the stories really show who they are as a person. There are many conflicts in The Most Dangerous Games and High Noon and no matter how different those conflicts are a similar conflict is the themes in both the stories which is isolation. Overall, The Most Dangerous Game and High Noon have their differences but they both are great stories with connectable themes that share many

All of their enemies had partners to come and try to take them down but they are both able to survive using their wits. In "The Most Dangerous Game" we see that our main character is struggling to survive because the first day it is just Zaroff that is hunting Rainsford. On day two he brings Ivan and on the third day " It was the baying of a pack of hounds" (Connell 13-14). On the last day that Rainsford has to survive, General Zaroff decides to comes out with all of his hounds to hunt Rainsford. He is clearly outnumbered by three. The quote from High Noon that shows how he is outnumbered by the worst bad guys in the old western is "You, me, Against all four of them?" (Foreman 332) Both character were highly outnumbered, but they both fought well using all their wits. They both defeated their opponents just by using their

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Frank Millers crew was standing where the Noon train will arrive so they can get together with Miller after he gets there. The people in the church suggested to just arrest Millers crew for what they did from before, but Kane can't arrest them because they haven't done yet. Now in The Most Dangerous Game, Zaroff has done countless wrong things to the people who have spotted his island. He had some of them beaten and whipped, then hunted them down and stored them in his cellar underneath of his place or house. He has most likely hit given them the food they need to be healthy. So as you can see Zaroff can be arrested for countless things for what he has done to these

High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" share many similarities throughout the text. For example the setting. Both stories do a great job of displaying how far away the characters are from civilization. "It bakes in the sun, a rather crooked and winding street that seems deserted now in the Sunday calm" (Foreman 288). This quote from High Noon, focuses in on the Main Street of the town. It isn 't very busy because of how small the town is, and the fact that it is in the middle of a desert. The only way in and out of the town is by train and not many people want to go into the desert, so the town doesn 't have many visitors. "Jagged crags appear to jump up into the opaqueness; he forced himself upward, hand over hand. Grasping his hands raw, he reached a flat piece at the top. Dense jungle came down to the very edge of the cliffs" (Connell 214). This quote

Both protagonists, have similar conflicts which contain having them killed. In the story General Zaroff says, "Your brain against mine. Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine. Outdoor chess! And the stake is not without value, eh?" (Connell 16). General Zaroff has the intention of killing Rainsford to cure his own boredom. This is the similar to when Frank Miller is coming in town to kill Kane. They also

Kane mentions the conflict of High Noon when he talks to Amy about Frank Miller coming back to town. "I sent up a man five years ago for murder. He was supposed to hang, but up North they commuted it to life. Now he's free- I don't know how.

As you can see from this quote in the movie High Noon " You didn't have to come to me. I was ready, I'm ready now! But this is different, this ain't what you said it was gonna be, this is just plain committing suicide" (Foreman 322-323). This shows how the deputies he had at the time said they were ready to go until they heard who was coming to fight. The deadliest gang in all of the westerns. Is coming to town to get their revenge on Kane. No one had the guts to go up with Kane and challenge them. There were people there to help but no one choose to. In the story "The most Dangerous Game" Rainsford is on an abandoned island that who ever goes there ends up dying by Zaroffs hand. He say it will be a fair fight. "You'll find this game worth playing," the general said enthusiastically. "Your Brain ,against mine. Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine. A game of outdoor chess" (Connell 225). It will be like chess but fighting by himself for his own

In the setting of "The Most Dangerous Game" it begins off on a tropical deserted island in the 1920's. "Bleak darkness was blacking out the sea and jungle when Rainsford sighted the lights" (Connell 215). The setting for "High Noon" starts off in 1899 in an old western town. These stories will be at different places but will have same setting. In both stories you will see Will Kane and Sanger Ranger will facing isolation and

"The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror"(Connell 10). While Rainsford was being hunted by Zaroff he felt as if it were a game of cat and mouse. Because he was the person running away and trying to survive, he put himself in place of the mouse, while Zaroff was the cat. In the end Rainsford and Will Kane are both similar because they both felt fear throughout the stories. Will started to cry because in his mind he thought that he was going to die. And in the other story, Rainsford felt fear while he was in the tree hiding from Zaroff because he knew if he made one bad step, he would die. Even though both characters felt fear, they both persevered and conquered their

A rather obvious conflict being that all odds seem to favor the villains, not to mention the fact that the main characters face their problems all alone. Will Kane must fend off Frank and his lawless gang on his own. Sanger Rainsford has to survive against one of the best hunters in the world, a man yielding a pistol and hounds, in a jungle with barely anything to help him. Another major problem would be the value of time. In High Noon, when Amy attempted to plead with Kane, he answered, “What’s an hour?... What’s a hundred miles, even?... They’d come after us. We’d have to run again. Long as we live” (Foreman 296). Will already knew what would happen if he ran, and he had already accepted the challenge. He had an hour — 60 minuets — to find deputies and prepare for the threat, the very real threat of Frank Miller’s revenge. General Zaroff explains his game to Rainsford saying, “If my quarry eludes me for three whole days, he wins the game. If I find him he loses” (Connell 14). Here, the General explains that Rainsford merely has three days to outsmart possibly the smartest sportsman of his time. The conflicts of time and advantage serve as the greatest trial in both

The Most Dangerous Game is a thriller in which the main character, Rainsford, is being hunted down in the jungle by the cruel General Zaroff. High Noon is a 1800's western story in which the main character, Will Kane, is a sherif and has to fight for his life against a thief by the name of Frank Mitchell. These two books sound like they are completely different. But actually, they are more similar that different. The mains characters from each story share a lot in common. The themes both show violence and strength throughout the book. The setting is completely different though. Here are some of the reasons why these two books share some similarities but one main difference.

In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Younger wants to be a “real man”. His dream is to become successful in business and make his family rich. However, when all his money is stolen, he becomes very pessimistic, abandoning the ideas of morality and dignity. At the end of the play, his son Travis inspires him to value his family’s pride over materialism. Over the course of the play, Walter’s view of manhood changes from someone wealthy and successful to a person who has pride and believes in human dignity.