Comparing Most Dangerous Game And The Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

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Originally by Richard Connell and is one of his most read short stories of his life. The essay will compare the theme, environment, conflict, and resolution of these short stories. In both stories, the characters will be told of how they both take on an opposing force that is different, but in the end, someone does die. In both “The Most Dangerous Game” and “ The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” the main characters have been lost to the wilderness while battling with an opposing force that ends with someone losing their life, one of the forces which leads to the story ending. While Farquhar was in his camp, he heard about an enemy encampment at the end of a nearby bridge. After hearing about the camp he asked “How far is it from Owl Creek Bridge?” …show more content…

While Rainnsford and Whitney were on the balcony smoking their pipes, they saw an island that was called “Ship-Trap Island” (Rainsford 1) which got its name from the mass amounts of ships sunk by the unseen danger beneath the water. “The most dangerous game”and “the occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” both take place in the wilderness. During a discussion Farquhar said “Suppose a man—a civilian and student of hanging—should elude the picket post and perhaps get the better of the sentinel,” (Farquhar 2) speaking of a guard at the end of the bridge and that if they played their cards right they could distract the guard so they could sneak past and write down the layout of the post so they could make an attack before them. After Rainsford and Whitney were done speaking about the island, Whitney went to bed but Rainsford couldn’t sleep so he went back to smoking his pipe but fell trying to reach for his pipe which was knocked out of his mouth. Finally he arrived on the beach of “Ship-Trap Island” and while he was regaining his composure. While Rainsford was swimming he heard a pistol shot and said "Where there are pistol shots, there are

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