High Noon And The Most Dangerous Game Comparison Essay

Both of the stories High Noon, and "The Most Dangerous Game," are great stories that have many things in common. In High Noon the main character Will has to fight our people at once, and "In The Most dangerous Game" Rainsford has to fight a pack of dogs, and two humans, by being smart, and using his wit. In the end both characters overcome great obstacles, and survive what threatened them. Also in both of the stories the characters have to be very brave, and smart to survive. These two stores have many things in common, but one major thing that they have is that their themes are very strong, and helped their main characters survive.

In both of the stories the main characters have very different jobs. "They've got a new marshal-! Kane: Won't be here till tomorrow. Seems to me I've got to stay awhile (he reaches for his star.) anyway I'm the same man with or without this"(Foreman 296). His shows how even though he could have quit his job completely, and run away he still stays to fight the antagonist of the movies Miller, as the town's sheriff. "This hot weather is making you soft Whitney. Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes-- the

hunters and the hunted. Luckily you and I are hunters" (Conell 1). In the story "Most Dangerous Game" the main character Rainsford and his partner, and this quote can mean the literal meaning, or that people that are strong will survive, and weak people won't. To fulfill these two different job positions, and their beliefs they had to stand and fight even when the odds seemed overwhelming.
In both of these stories more than one person hunted them down, and still they had to stand and fight. "Go home to your kids Herb" (Foreman 322). In the quote he is telling his only deputy to go home, which for Kane it meant that he would have to fight four other people by himself. "But the hope that was in Rainsford's brain when he climbed died, for he saw in the shallow valley that general Zaroff was still on his feet. But Ivan was not" (Conell 14). In this story the main character Rainsford has to fight more than one person, he has to fight two, and a pack of wolves, which are also trying to hunt him down, in this quote he kill one of the two people hunting him. Both of these reasons support the theme, which is very strong in both of these stories.
Both of these stories had very important themes, which reflects a lot on the main characters.

"You and Me against Mitchell, and all four of em" (Foreman 322). The theme for High Noon is not to wait for other people to do things for you, or help you do them yourself. In this quote Herb is in disbelief that only he volunteered, and later leaves Will to fend for himself. "The general made one of his deepest bows. " I see," he said. "Splendid! One of us to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep on this very excellent bed. On guard Rainsford." He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided" (Conell 15). In "The Most Dangerous Game" the theme is hunt of be hunted, and in this scene Rainsford kills his hunter. In both of these stories the main character is the underdog, but both of them overcome the

odds.
Both of these stories have very strong themes, which show the longer, that you proceed throughout them. One difference between both of the stories is that they both have different jobs one being a hunter, and the other being a sheriff. Also in both stories the were underdogs, and didn't have any help from anyone else. One strong relationship is that both of the stories have very strong and meaningful themes. In conclusion, both stories are some of the best stories to watch, or read.