High Noon Short Story

The stories High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are very similar. High Noon is about Will Kane a marshal in the old west who is being hunted down by a criminal he arrested in the past. The Most Dangerous Game is about Rainsford the hunter who is going to find out what it is like to be the hunted. Both of these characters will need to fight to survive. These two stories have lots of similarities but they also have differences. The first similarity they have is the setting. "Street from Kane's point of view. It is completely deserted" (Foreman 326). This shows Will is in a very isolated place because he is in a town in the middle of the desert with no way out. "He heard the hounds. Then he leaped far out into the sea" (Connell 231). This shows that he is on an isolated island surrounded by water with no way out. That is why the first similarity of these stories is the isolated setting. Another similarity of these two stories is the …show more content…
One of the difference in this story is the main characters. "Will supply you with hunting cloths, food, and a knife" (Connell 226). This shows Rainsford who is the main character does not have a lot of resources and will have to think a lot to survive. "Then, putting down both his guns, he opens a drawer, takes out a box of bullets and stuffs bullets into his pocket" (Foreman 323). This shows Will Kane has lots of recourses with him and he will not need to use his brain as much he will just need to shoot the people after him. A difference in this story is the amount of recourses the main character got to have to use. High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game were very similar stories but they still had their differences. Both of the settings of each story had isolation. The conflicts of both stories were also very similar. The difference is the the amount of resources the main character had to their advantage. That is why these stories are both similar but still