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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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    evade their predators. The prey mostly likely to survive a hunt has the ability to In Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, it tells of a man named Rainsford who gets stranded on Ship-Trap Island. He competed with General Zaroff in hunting each other and finally killed Zaroff on the third day. Through the use of literary devices, Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” suggests that instinct is more influential than reasoning, in any situation. The feeling of being stressed is caused

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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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    “The Most Dangerous Game” and High Noon are two classic stories than can be compared to each other. While the setting can be different they are also the same in various ways. The two plots are also very similar with the different ideas of the threat. The theme of both stories are very similar with the same intention of them doing it alone. The stories High Noon and “The Most Dangerous Game” are two stories made by two different people but if you look at it in a different angle it might seen as

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    This shows how he is more evil than Montresor when he kills the multiple people that enter his island. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell states “Why should I not be serious? I am speaking of hunting. Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff what you speak of is murder” (Connell 25). This shows how General Zaroff is very serious in his new hunting ways. He holds what he calls a game with his visitors upon Ship Trap Island and his visitors are humans. A lot of evilness is evolved through the ways

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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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    world, each one has its own diversity that sets it apart from the others. But even the most imaginative stories can share similar ideas and aspects with other ones, whether it be similarities in the world, characters, plots, circumstances, or themes. Two stories that are quite alike but also noticeably different are High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game." The similarities they share are very subtle, because most of their relation to one another comes from their differences. The former story is about

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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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    and may never be, but as what we know appears in movies and stories many similarities can be found between them. In “The Most Dangerous Game” and High Noon, the setting, protagonists, and plots show close relations. Both the short story and movie have similar plots, and internal confliction is a raging problem that appears in the plot of High Noon and “The Most Dangerous Game”. Kane says, “I sent a man up five years ago for murder. He was supposed to hang, but up north they commuted it to life.

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    would you feel? In these stories, the major characters both had to go through experiences, alone without help from anyone. These two stories, High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" have the same amount similarities as differences. Will Kane, the main character in High Noon, and Sanger Rainsford, the main character in "The Most Dangerous Game", both fought their enemies

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