Isolation. Terror. The dreadful feeling of being hunted. The struggle to stay alive. High Noon, a movie taking place in Old Western times where a notorious murderer comes back to town to seek revenge on the marshal. The Most Dangerous Game, a brilliant short story about a world renowned hunter falling off of his yacht and taking shore on a remote island where he finds a strange man that hunts the most cunning animal there is—humans. Although High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are different, they are strikingly similar in more ways than one. The patterns in the short story and the movie do vary, one of the reasons that make these pieces of literature different from one another. In High Noon, the most prominent pattern is when Will
