High Noon Compare And Contrast

Each story begins in an outside setting. “The Most Dangerous Game” begins with two men, out on a boat, in the Amazon River sailing to Rio. Their goal in mind is to hunt jaguar. The story also ends up outside as General Zaroff sends Sanger Rainsford off into

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.

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” author Richard Connell expertly exploits foreshadowing and vivid imagery to emphasize danger and suspense. Many authors attempt to do this, but only a small few succeed. Everyone who has stayed up past their bedtime reading a book will tell you, they stayed awake because the book they were reading was filled with suspense. It is suspense that separates the great stories from the good stories. And “The Most Dangerous Game” is definately a great one. By using foreshadowing and utilizing his characters five senses, Connell keeps readers at the edge of their seats, eagerly waiting to find out what comes next.

In order to emphasize his recurring theme of reason versus instinct, Connell first sets the scene for the story’s setting, the setting Connell chooses for “The Most Dangerous Game” fits exceptionally well alongside both the story’s plot, as well as, its literary element of suspense. By introducing the idea of a mysterious island at the very start of the story

There happen to be different settings in both of the short stories but both of the settings adapt well with their plots. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” the setting takes place in the early 1920’s after the First World War on a small tropical island somewhere in the Caribbean, known as Ship-Trap Island by the sailors. Amongst the sailors, they have a mysteriously threatening reputation, which typically scares others. Individuals who pass by the area of Ship-Trap Island sense a subtle, deceptive sense of evil that haunts a number of individuals. The island is covered with a condense jungle that extends all the way down to its insidious, rocky terrain. Whereas, in the short story, “Young Goodman Brown” the story is set in the late seventeenth

Whenever people go to the movies or read a book, they long for an interesting story to be entertained by. Whether it is action filled or suspenseful, they want a stimulating plot that makes them feel good. In 1952, Carl Foreman wrote the screenplay for a movie called High Noon; a classic tale of when the hunter becomes the hunted. Then in 1924, Richard Connell wrote another classic, called "The Most Dangerous Game". Although both stories demonstrate similar examples of the setting and conflict, the main characters react very differently to the unusual situations they find themselves stuck in.

The two stories, High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game, build up the protagonist Rainsford and Kane in different ways, and create similarities and differences in which these characters have. The differences impact the stories to make them different; however, they still end up being some what the same. As these stories progress, there are similarities that start to form. High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game both have common ideas that help create the stories but also share a handful of differences as well.

High Noon, a critically acclaimed movie. "The Most Dangerous Game", an awarded short story. High Noon stars Will Kane, a sheriff who put a criminal in jail, and now is back for revenge on the noon train which is the only way in and out of the town. "The Most Dangerous Game" stars Rainsford, a hunter who gets stuck on a island who hunts men for sport, and is the next prey for the man. The stories might seem not different or similar to some people, but the setting, characters, and themes have both similarities and differences.

The thrilling element of fear, the logical ways of the hunt, and the bangs of gun shots are what make suspenseful stories about hunting so exciting. These factors are all portrayed in the well-written story of The Most Dangerous Game and one of the top movies, High Noon, written by Carl Foreman. The Most Dangerous Game is written by Richard Connell; it is about a daring hunter named Rainsford that falls off his boat in the middle of the sea and ends up in a mysterious, overgrown place called Ship-Trap Island. There, he meets General Zaroff, who is a sociopath that likes to hunt humans, like him, as entertainment. In the movie High Noon, the marshall of a town in the Old West, Will Kane, is the target of a criminal called Frank Miller.

High Noon, a film that takes place in a western, isolated town, and “The Most Dangerous Game”, a story that takes place on an ominous island. How can the two be different, and how much do they have in common? In the film, High Noon, the main villain, Frank Miller, and his gang returns to town for revenge on Will Kane, the town marshal, for sending him to jail. Unfortunately for Will, no one volunteers to help him out; therefore, he has to retaliate by himself. “The Most Dangerous Game” is about Sanger Rainsford, a hunter who gets stranded on an island where a suspicious man resides.

The movie High Noon written by Carl Foreman and the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Rich Connell are both fantastic stories that contain a fairly different plot, but they also have a few similarities. High Noon takes place in a small remote area called Hadleyville, and tells the story of the towns Marshal. His name is Will Kane and he is a brave character that doesn’t stand down. Recently he married Amy, who is also a Quaker, but conflict appears when Frank Miller, who is the man Kane sent to jail, is coming back to town. Another problem he has trouble swearing in deputies and has to fight Frank and his gang alone.

In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” the themes are fear of dying young and survival of the fittest. In the story Rainsford is terrified because the General found him after hours of confusing tracks and let him live. Rainsford understood that the General was playing with him.While in the story “Where Have You Gone, Billy Boy” Private Paul Berlin was scared because Billy died. The themes in this story are, fear is not as powerful as laughter and fear of dying young. Private Berlin was extremely scared of dying. Billy died from a heart attack after his foot was blown off by a faulty landmine. Private Berlin was extremely scared but then started laughing, He couldn’t stop even when he was scared. He beat his fear back with laughter.

Would you rather be hunted in the woods by crazed psychomaniac or be led into a trap without you knowing it? These are the general summaries of the main conflicts in both stories. The conflict is important in a story because it gives the interesting parts to the story. “The Most Dangerous Game” is a survival story that takes place on a remote island in the caribbean. “The Cask of Amontillado” is a revenge story that takes place in a remote village in Italy in underground in catacombs. Even though they have different settings they still have the same conflict, but they have different subplots because of their settings and character development.

Some people like being alone, but what they see as alone is much different from really being alone. In the story High Noon, Will Kane is being targeted by a Gang of Four criminals and no one will help him. He finds out which friends he has aren't real, because all of them leave him to dry. In the other story, "The Most Dangerous Game", Rainsford does not have a anyone to ask for help, he is all alone getting hunted by a also sociopath. Rainsford has to use his surrounding to survive. There are many similarities and differences in the two stories. So, let's get right into them.

‘“ there to the right somewhere-is a large island,” said Whitney” (Connel 211). The short story “The Most Dangerous Game” takes place on a island in the Caribbean. Rainsford ends up falling off of his boat and swimming to the nearest island. Where he then meets Zaroff who challenges him to a life or death game. “If he does, and if we run- they’ll just come after us. Four of them, and we’d be all alone on the prairie” ( Foreman 26). The film High Noon is set in a Western Town that is in the middle of nowhere. Will Kane who is a Marshall figures out the person he sent to jail is coming back to get him. Both themes are focused on two different topics. Now you would think these two stories are nothing alike, but both main characters have something that stops them from running away from there enemies. This something is isolation. With nowhere to run, Kane is left to wait at the town for Miller. And with no way to escape the island, Rainsford is forced to play the fight or die game with Zaroff. Even if, both settings are completely opposite, they do share the setting characteristic of