Most Dangerous Game 'And The Child By Tiger'

There is no distinct difference between being considered good and being considered evil. Every person falls somewhere in between the spectrum. An evil person would be considered someone who is immoral. An evil person puts his or her life above everyone else’s, and will stop at nothing to get what he or she wants. Being a good person can mean multiple things. It could be someone who is friendly and happy or someone who is generous and selfless. Conflicts that people experience, more specifically how they resolve it, help to decide where they lie on the scale of good and evil. “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, and “Child by Tiger,” by Thomas Wolfe, both have characters that possess traits of good and evil. Throughout …show more content…
The authors of “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Child By Tiger” transition from describing their characters in a positive tone, to depicting them as truly evil. In the beginning of “The Most Dangerous Game,” words like bright, thoughtful, affable, and cosmopolite were used to depict the general as a good-hearted person. However, the slowly changed as words such as devil, sharp eyes, and horror were used to describe him. These words have a highly negative tone, and lead the reader to see Zaroff as evil. In “The Child By Tiger,” the author used a similar technique to change his tone throughout the story. He started describing Dick by using words such as splendid, joy, astounding, and delight. Later in the story, Dick was depicted as malicious and immoral, for the author used words such as killer, murderous, and blood when talking about him. These words portray Dick Prosser as a criminal, leading the reader to see his true evil side. In both stories, the authors originally use positively connoted words, but then use negative ones to create a vicious and sinister tone. By the end of both stories, the authors use similar writing techniques to place the characters as evil on the