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    In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell. Think about being alone in the cold night but your with your friends and your hiding from them. You guys are playing a game like tag or ghost in the graveyard, or even home free. But now think that you are doing this but not with your friends but with an enemy that is what Rainsford goes through in this book. Rainsford is playing a game that might die from unless he is witty enough. The Most Dangerous game brings hope courage and survive

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    movies of all time. On the other hand, The Most Dangerous Game, written by Richard Connell, is just another short story. The main character of High Noon is Will Kane, and Sanger Rainsford is of the other. Both of these people are fighting for survival, but they cannot get help in one way or another because they are alone figuratively and physically; the setting is also similar yet nothing alike. Although the setting for High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are similar, other aspects of the stories

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    In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, General Zaroff is shown as insane, competitive, and mean. General Zaroff is shown to be insane in the story when he kills humans for fun. “It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason.” (Connell 69). This quote shows that Rainsford is insane because during this part, he is saying that he wants to hunt something that can reason with him, and only one animal can do that. That animal is a human. During the story, General

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    In the short story The Most dangerous game, and the movie High noon there Are many things the same and different. Even though most of the things are the same the settings are totally different. The 2 themes in the story are very much alike then different. The 2 villains Frank [Miller] and General Zarrof are very much alike in the way they act. There are many more things the same then different. The two Setting are totally different one is the Old West and the other is in the rainforest.

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    you ever heard of or played a dangerous game? For example, in the game Nerf, a group of people have Nerf guns. In order to eliminate your opponents, you have to shoot ad hit them with the Nerf bullets. The last man or woman standing is the winner. This game is considered dangerous because it’s promoting first-hand shooting and someone could easily get hit in the eye. In Richard Connell’s story “The Most Dangerous Game,” the characters also “play” a game. In this game, humans become the hunted. If

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    In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, Rainsford outsmarted Zaroff to win the the dangerous man-hunt. Rainsford won by displaying three helpful traps. One trap was the Malay mancatcher. The second trap was called the tiger pit. The final trap was a knife strapped to a sapling. Rainsford had to come up with a plan and fast. He thought of the Malay mancatcher. It is a unstable tree that hits a cut down living tree and the living tree hits a person when they step on the

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    Throughout all short stories, there can be multiple similarities, and differences. But, more specifically, the three stories, “Harrison Bergeron”, “Liberty”, and “The Most Dangerous Game” share(s) similarities and differences. There can be similarities and differences in setting, character, conflict, and theme. In all three stories, setting is a literary element. There may be details in each story that is shared between them, or maybe not. For example, in “Liberty” it states that the story takes

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    becoming like me” (Joker). The short story “The Most Dangerous Game” is an eerie setting on s less civilized island. Rainsford is a deserted hunter on a deserted island “Ship Trap Island”. General Zaroff a daring Cossack. In “The Most Dangerous Game” General Zaroff makes an exceptional villain, because he is ruthless, bloodthirsty, and blind to the value of life. General Zaroff is ruthless in his hunt. He hunts sparingly with his prey, dangerous prey. ‘“Here in my preserve on this island, he said

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    story, “The most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford kills General Zaroff. Some readers believe Rainsford has the right to eliminate Zaroff. Others believe that no human being should be killed under no circumstance but most people believe that Rainsford had a right to kill Zaroff because Zaroff killed many people in the past and tried to kill Rainsford in the process when Rainsford washed up onto shipwreck island and hunted him down for two ish daies which zaroff calls his murder his dangerous game. For instance“That

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    story, “The Most Dangerous Game” is the story of a man who is left on an island. He discovers that on this island is a rich hunter who, as a result of his boredom in the ease of hunting, has begun hunting other humans. Richard Connell successfully creates a compelling piece of literature through plot, figurative language and theme. To begin with, Richard Connell successfully writes a compelling short story through plot. One example of the exciting plot used in “The Most Dangerous Game” is when it

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