Most Dangerous Game Vs High Noon Literary Analysis

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In every story you will read there will be another that is similar and different in many ways. In the story, The Most Dangerous Game, written by Richard Connell, our main character learns what it is like to be hunted. High Noon, written by Carl Foreman, is a film about a marshal that has to choose between protecting his town or leaving with his wife. In both the film and the text, the settings and main characters are both similar, however the conflicts differ from each other which effects the plot of both stories. The setting of High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game have similarities which contribute to the vibe the story gives off. "He saw no sign of a trail through the closely knit web of weeds and trees" (Connell 6). The citation can tell

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