The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell and Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff share many similarities as well as differences. The Most Dangerous Game leans more on the commercial side of fiction. Hunters in the Snow, however, leads on the literary side of fiction. Both stories involve conflict with man, man’s self, and nature.
The conflict with man is quite noticeable in both of the stories. However, The Most Dangerous Game is commercial fiction so the plot is more straightforward. Throughout the story, the protagonist, Rainsford, is ruthlessly hunted by the antagonist: General Zaroff. Rainsford has to continually hide from General Zaroff. There even comes a point in the story when Rainsford has to kill General Zaroff’s henchman, Ivan,
with a trap. In Hunters in the Snow, the story’s plot is far more complex. The main antagonist is Frank, but depending on the different character’s perspectives, Tub and Kenny could also be seen as antagonists. Initially Tub see’s the other guys as antagonists because they constantly pick on him. At the end of the story, Kenny is the victim. Frank decides to ignore Kenny’s wounds and instigates Tub to do the same. In both stories the characters have to deal with their own mental thoughts. In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford needed to keep a calm mentality in order to survive. Rainsford knew that if he did not keep his wits about him, General Zaroff would find him more quickly. In Hunters in the Snow, Kenny and Frank constantly criticized Tub. Tub tried to keep his self control but eventually lashed out on Frank. Kenny also handled his frustration with hunting foolishly. Kenny’s anger eventually caused Tub to shoot him in self-defense. Lastly, both stories contain the man against nature theme. In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford gets thrown off of his ship in a storm. Rainsford then has to swim against the ocean’s rough waters in order to make it to shore. Later, while he is being hunted, Rainsford has to navigate his way through the tropical jungle. In Hunters in the Snow, Tub, Kenny, and Frank have to trudge through the thick snow when they go hunting. The conflict with nature is at its worse when Kenny has to lay wounded in the bed of Frank’s truck. Kenny ends up having to suffer in the freezing snow while his friends ignore him. In conclusion, both stories contain a protagonist who has to find his own way to surmount his antagonist. Each antagonist in The Most Dangerous Game was a definite person or thing. Commercial fiction tends to have a protagonist who eventually overcomes the antagonist. In Hunters in the Snow, the antagonist was more difficult to place. Works of literary fiction are more detailed and usually have an unfortunate ending.
The two story High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" are alike in some ways, but very different in many other ways also. High Noon is a story about an honest man named will khan; Who is a Marshall that has sent a prisoner to jail named frank Miller. Who has now come out of jail to get revenge on will. When will needs the towns people of hadleyville for help to defeat frank when he comes after will no one helps. In the other hand "The Most Dangerous Game" is about two very skilled hunter between Rainsford who get trapped on Ship-Trap island by Zaroff who owns the island. When Rainsford realizes what Zaroff hunts in his island he must leave as soon as possible. Zaroff tells Rainsford he could either hunt with him or against him.
“The Most Dangerous Game” is about a man named Rainsford. When Rainsford falls off a yacht and has to swim to the nearest island, he meets a general named, General Zaroff, who became disinterested with hunting animals, so he switched to hunting humans as a game. He tricks ships into thinking that there is a channel they can sail through, but then
All around it was quiet. [ADM2]The birds were chirping and the leaves were blowing. Suddenly, a man fled from the brush, holding only a knife in his right hand. After the fleeing man had ran some distance, another man came out of the brush holding a revolver. This man walked calmly after the fleeing man not worried that the he would escape. The old, erect man stopped, and loaded his revolver. He then took aim, shot a round and hit the fleeing man just as he turned around. The man dropped as he died instantly. The old man then walked over to the game he had just killed, grabbed the body by the shirt, and dragged the body into the brush. Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game is a story based on a man who thrives for hunting humans[ADM3]. The way Connell wrote this short story reveals some characteristics about him. The Most Dangerous Game is a psychological story about the author facing and overcoming fear.
The short story Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff depicts three men that go on a hunting trip that changes the course of their lives. Each character lies to himself to accept his actions in his life. Kenny, Frank, and Tub need to successfully fool themselves before they can deceive anyone else. Each of the men are immature and selfish. They don't realize how their decisions impact other people's lives. They justify their lies with their own insecurities about their lifestyles. Their lies impact the situations they encounter and change their lives forever.
“The world is made up of two classes the hunters and the huntees” (2). Rainsford believes the people are either aggressive or passive. The aggressive people succeed and survive. On the other hand, the passive people are more accepting and allowing. “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell, the author, Rainsford and General Zaroff are both aggressive people in the story. Rainsford becomes trapped on Ship Trap Island and meets a man named General Zaroff that hunts humans, he stayed alive by killing General Zaroff.
Though the evils of the world may discourage us from reaching our full potential, fairytales such as Little Snow-White by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm teach us that good will always triumph over evil. As many tales of its kind, Little Snow-White uses a number of literary devices to attract a younger audience and communicate to them a lesson or moral that will remain with them throughout their lives. Since children have such an abstract stream of thought, it is vital to use language and devices that will appeal to them as to keep them interested in the story.
It only takes so much until people can be pushed to their limits, cornered into a dilemma, and contemplating their actions that could lead to horrible consequences. Many of Tobias Wolff’s works were focused on these such predicaments of human nature. In the short story, “Hunters in the Snow,” Tobias Wolff uses setting and atmosphere to show that when placed in a severe and brutal environment, male camaraderie often leads to violent behavior.
Winter Dreams follows the life of Dexter Green as he pursues wealth and societal affluence in the hopes of winning the love and affection of Judy Jones, a spoiled socialite from a wealthy family who he first met when he was an adolescent while caddying at an exclusive golf club. As a result of this meeting and the embarrassment he felt in his role as a mere caddie; Dexter makes the irrational decision to quit his caddying job and begin his quest for upper-class social status. The author recapitulates this decision by the protagonist with the following statement; “It is not so simple as that either. As so frequently would be the case in the future, Dexter was unconsciously dictated to by his winter dreams.”
Fat, slow, gluttonous, or as Frank would say, "wasting away before my eyes," (168) are
The theme in both stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Winter Dreams” are very similar. The theme in both stories shows love and sacrifice. The wife describes how her husband's assumptions leads him to misjudge, patronize and dominate his wife. His wife does love him and sacrifices a lot for him. It seems like the wife has no say in the details of her life. In “Winter Dreams” Dexter falls for Judy. For many years he has dreams of her. We learned in the story about a period of time that Dexter rises to success. In the ending of the story Dexter cries mourning the past ans his lost of youth, which he will never be able to reclaim. Winter Dreams shows love and sacrifice. Both stories use the literary device, parenthesis. The stories show an
Richard Connell, who wrote the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, uses his ability to convey many of the stupendous intentions to control the elements of plot, which is what makes this short story such a compelling and engaging piece of literature! The exposition, where Rainsford tells his opinion about hunting, is one of the elements of plot that conveys and demonstrates how Richard Connell manipulated the plot to make this short story even more stimulating. Then, the rising action includes suspenseful events that preserves the reader in an immense amount of suspense, which again goes to show Connell’s ability to control the plot element to intrigue the reader deeper into the story. Later in the story, Richard Connell ends “The Most
F. Scott Fitzgerald. A man to revolutionize the way we look at modernism and the dream all americans have. The short story “Winter Dreams” by Fitzgerald is about a young man by the name of Dexter that falls in love with a young rich women by the name of judy. Judy is made of old money whereas Dexter has always worked to make the money he has to be in the same “social class” as Judy. Although Dexter has the money to hang out with those people he is still left out in most parts of the story. Judy cheats on Dexter multiple times yet he still stays with her because he wants to stay a part of the social class that she is in. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his character Dexter in the short story “Winter Dreams” in many ways to portray his idea of the american
In order to grow and learn as a person, one must be a dynamic person and not static. A character is dynamic when a person undergoes an important inner transformation in their personality and/or attitude. A static character is the opposite of dynamic; static characters are defined in such a way that the character does not portray any changes from the beginning of the story to the end of the story. In Shakespeare’s play, The Winter’s Tale, there are a couple of characters that are dynamic, but there are also characters that are static.
After reading quite a few poems and short stories, I was beginning to become very aggravated. The fact that I could not understand any of the underlying meanings of them was really starting to tick me off. As much as I do not like to read, I finally decided it would be best if I just started reading them over again with a calm and open mind. Once I began to read over them again, there was one poem in particular that really jumped out to me. The poem was, “The Snow Man”, by Wallace Stevens. The reason why this poem enlightened me so much is because I was thinking of a Soldier and their family. I began to ponder over what goes through a soldiers mind when they are at war, or even what may be going through the families mind.
The Winter's Tale is a perfect tragicomedy. Set in an imaginary world where Bohemia has a seacoast, and where ancient Greek oracles coexist with Renaissance sculptors, it offers three acts of unremitting tragedy, followed by two acts of restorative comedy. In between, sixteen years pass hastily, a lapse which many critics have taken as a structural flaw, but which actually only serves to highlight the disparity of theme, setting, and action between the two halves of the play. The one is set amid gloomy winter, and illuminates the destructive power that mistaken jealousy exercises over the family of Leontes, King of Sicilia; in the second half, flower-strewn spring intervenes, and all the damage that the King's folly accomplished is undone--through coincidence, goodwill, and finally through miracle, as a statue of his dead wife comes to life and embraces him.