The Most Dangerous Game Analysis

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I believe that all of the short stories we read were quite entertaining in some way. I found that “The Scarlet Ibis” was my favorite because it brought out my emotions. I didn’t really catch the main idea to the story “Blues Ain’t No Mocking Bird”, but I got the plot’s concept. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” I actually predicted the outcome within the first few pages, because I knew that in some way the story was going to present situational irony. This review is going to be about “The Most Dangerous Game” and the events that occurred when I was reading it.

The story was mainly based upon the theme/message of the hunter becoming the hunted. In the beginning a sailor he was sailing with spoke of an island. An island in which sailors

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