English 6
9-18-2014
Introduction
Have you ever changed the way you live your life? Changing almost everything about yourself is tough, especially when it’s to become a type of person you contradicted. Most lives tend to do anything to survive, and if changing the way you think is the only way to do that then changing may exactly what you have to do. If the life you dream of is just out of reach, you may decide to do anything else possible to strive towards it. The setting and characters are highly different in the stories “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant.
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Setting is what gives the initial start of any story. Without setting you’d just imagine a character in a place you thought up yourself. The setting of both stories gives off a look that would greatly change the characters. The environment around them is so widely is very correspondent to the characters that it seems so fitting to them. Rainsford is a hunter for game just like the island is meant to be for. Mathilde is townsperson dreaming of a beautiful life with various fancy things around her, while she lives a cheap life of porridge and cloths for clothing. However, both characters are greatly affected by the setting they’re forced to live in. …show more content…
Mathilde is in a world where the luxury looks way better than it really is. Rainsford is trapped on an island where he is the game of the land. The life of other people influence both of them into changing. Rainsford fights to prevent himself from becoming a murderer and killing humans as game. A life of a hunter and a life of a townsperson are completely different, yet they contain the same elements of lifestyles. On the other hand, they are even widely similar in many aspects.
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