In the course of a person's life, there will be many situations in which they will have to be brave. Whether it's being bullied, getting injured, or an injury occuring to an important fmily member in your life, you have to persevere through it and be courageous. Two people who do that are Will Kane and Sanger Rainsford. In the story, The Most Dangerous Game, written by Richard Connell, a world renowned hunter becomes the hunted and has to fight for his life for three whole days. In the film, High Noon, written by Carl Foreman, Frank Miller is coming for sweet revenge on Marshal Will Kane who sent him up North to jail. In both texts, the themes and settings are different in many important ways: additionally, the protagonists are very similar,
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The movie takes place in the small, developing town of Hadleyville located in the New Mexico Territory, but the story takes place on Ship-Trap Island, an isolated island, somewhere close to Brazil. "THE PLACE is HADLEYVILLE, population around 400, located in a Western territory still to be determined, a town just old enough to have become pleasantly aware of its existence, and to begin thinking of its appearance" (Foreman). This citation shows the reader that Hadleyville is a smaller town that is not heavily populated, but there are people unlike in The Most Dangerous Game where there are only three people. Those people are Sanger Rainsford, General Zaroff, and Ivan. Hadleyville is a civilized town that includes transportation, a saloon, and a marshal, but Ship-Trap in the book lacks all of these components. "Bleak darkness was backing out of the sea and jungle when Rainsford sighted lights. He came upon them as he turned a crook in the coast line; and his first thought was that he had come upon a village, for there were many lights" (Connell 6). In this brief description included in the story, it depicts what Rainsford saw when he had woken up. The island included a dense, tropical jungle covered with trees and that he was surrounded by water on all sides. From the story, it can be inferred that the isolated island is near Rio, Brazil. Unlike Hadleyville, the setting in The Most …show more content…
In High Noon, they talk more about a woman and a man's role in society, but in The Most Dangerous Game the theme is more about the feeling of fear and if men feel it, while being hunted. The settings are very unlike each other due to the fact that one takes place in a somewhat civilized town while the other takes place on an isolated island. Lastly, the characters in both the movie and the book have to fight against antagonists and show how brave and courageous they have acted. Unlike most other stories and movies, these two characters also feel doubt. In conclusion, High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are similar in the way that they are written though you can also point out quite a few differences as
The movie takes place in the small, developing town of Hadleyville located in the New Mexico Territory, but the story takes place on Ship-Trap Island, an isolated island, somewhere close to Brazil. "THE PLACE is HADLEYVILLE, population around 400, located in a Western territory still to be determined, a town just old enough to have become pleasantly aware of its existence, and to begin thinking of its appearance" (Foreman). This citation shows the reader that Hadleyville is a smaller town that is not heavily populated, but there are people unlike in The Most Dangerous Game where there are only three people. Those people are Sanger Rainsford, General Zaroff, and Ivan. Hadleyville is a civilized town that includes transportation, a saloon, and a marshal, but Ship-Trap in the book lacks all of these components. "Bleak darkness was backing out of the sea and jungle when Rainsford sighted lights. He came upon them as he turned a crook in the coast line; and his first thought was that he had come upon a village, for there were many lights" (Connell 6). In this brief description included in the story, it depicts what Rainsford saw when he had woken up. The island included a dense, tropical jungle covered with trees and that he was surrounded by water on all sides. From the story, it can be inferred that the isolated island is near Rio, Brazil. Unlike Hadleyville, the setting in The Most …show more content…
In High Noon, they talk more about a woman and a man's role in society, but in The Most Dangerous Game the theme is more about the feeling of fear and if men feel it, while being hunted. The settings are very unlike each other due to the fact that one takes place in a somewhat civilized town while the other takes place on an isolated island. Lastly, the characters in both the movie and the book have to fight against antagonists and show how brave and courageous they have acted. Unlike most other stories and movies, these two characters also feel doubt. In conclusion, High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are similar in the way that they are written though you can also point out quite a few differences as