The Most Dangerous Game Vs The Sniper

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Danger. Murder. Violence. Misery. What do these things have in common? Their all themes in The Most Dangerous Game and The Sniper. The Most Dangerous game is about a man named Rainsford who washes up on an island only to find a hunter, General Zaroff, who hunts the most dangerous and conniving thing possible, human. He faces many challenges, but overcomes them and defeats the General. The Sniper is a short story about a man who has a challenge to kill his enemy, he must shoot down the other sniper that on the enemy's side. After he kills the man he has many thoughts about why he did this and has conflict with himself. Later he feels like he need to know who the other sniper was and runs over to his dead body as he lay down and …show more content…
Why lose lives when a disagreement could be settled with a calm conversation. I was deeply saddened when the man flipped over the dead sniper and saw it was his brother, I could only imagine the cold and raw …show more content…
With these circumstances, he must try everything thing is his power to win over the General: he makes traps for his the dogs hurts the General shoulder, at this moment Ransford must give himself a pep talk "I will not lose my nerve. I will not." he gathers himself knowing that the General will be forced to go back to his castle. Then he made a crucial decision to swim to the castle so no one could chase after him. When doing so he was able to get ahead of the General which lead to the Generals demise. In The Sniper he risks getting caught because he wanted to smoke also when he needed to leave he had to kill the other sniper because he couldn't risk his dying. During these periods both protagonists are dealing with internal and external conflicts. In the Most Dangerous Game the protagonist must deal with internal of hunting and external of being hunted. In The Sniper internal is questioning if this war is right, he is wondering if what he is doing is correct. External he has no feeling when he got hit he didn't even wince at the pain almost as it was normal to be hurt. He felt no pain as if he wasn't

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