Thomas Wolfe’s The Child by Tiger and Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game both take a look at the result of a deteriorating mindset of two strong men. The stories are written in a way that give us a small glimpse into the tainted mindset of two very different individuals and the outcome of that deterioration. Although written in different styles, with dramatically different characters both stories have common characteristics. In The Child by Tiger, one man hides his mental struggle behind the soft spoken and soft natured façade of “Shepperton’s new Negro man” but in the end he can hold on to the mild mannered man that he portrayed. In The Most Dangerous Game, one man’s hidden fortress allowed him to play out his dark twisted game without the interference of others which in the end led to him hunting another man for sport.
In The Child by Tiger the timeframe is set when it was still socially acceptable to call a man Negro and they were still not valued as people.
The timeframe is realistic and we catch a real look into the hatred that ran rampant during those days when Lon Everett hit the Shepperton’s car and then proceeded hit Dick in the face. “Dick did not …show more content…
General Zaroff, another Soldier’s whose mind has deteriorated to a point of no return. In this story a hunter, Rainsford, falls off a ship headed to a hunting expedition. He finds himself in the water swimming towards the only sound he has heard, gunshots. He then finds refuge with a man that hunts men because animals weren’t enough of a thrill for him. Zaroff has built himself a fortress in the middle of an island that is nicknamed the Ship Trap so that he can be left alone to do the unthinkable. Rainsford, the hunter, finds himself the hunted in a bit of an ironic turn of events. Zaroff gives Rainsford a chance to hunt with him, but he refuses saying, “Thank you, I’m a hunter, not a
In The Child by Tiger the timeframe is set when it was still socially acceptable to call a man Negro and they were still not valued as people.
The timeframe is realistic and we catch a real look into the hatred that ran rampant during those days when Lon Everett hit the Shepperton’s car and then proceeded hit Dick in the face. “Dick did not …show more content…
General Zaroff, another Soldier’s whose mind has deteriorated to a point of no return. In this story a hunter, Rainsford, falls off a ship headed to a hunting expedition. He finds himself in the water swimming towards the only sound he has heard, gunshots. He then finds refuge with a man that hunts men because animals weren’t enough of a thrill for him. Zaroff has built himself a fortress in the middle of an island that is nicknamed the Ship Trap so that he can be left alone to do the unthinkable. Rainsford, the hunter, finds himself the hunted in a bit of an ironic turn of events. Zaroff gives Rainsford a chance to hunt with him, but he refuses saying, “Thank you, I’m a hunter, not a