Good And Evil In The Sniper And The Most Dangerous Game

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There is always a mixture of good and evil in human nature. Good and evil are influenced due to certain situations in human nature or things they haven’t considered doing before. People are also good and evil by their past life experiences. These certain situations can be found in stories “The Sniper”, and “The Most Dangerous Game”. “The Sniper” is a historical fiction while, “The Most Dangerous Game” is based on action and adventure. The general topic of “The Sniper” is about a man accidentally killing his brother in the Irish Civil War. Also in “The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford a hunter, gets to feel how it’s like to be hunted , and is put in the same situation as the animals. “The Sniper” and “ The Most Dangerous Game” develop a situation

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