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,
There are many similarities and differences between the story “The Most Dangerous Game” and the episode of Gilligan's Island that we watched. Some similarities include: someone is being hunted, the setting is similar, and both victims get away in the end. Some differences include: the moods of the stories, the strategies that are used by the huntees, and how the hunter got to the island.
Being hunted on an island is an experience like no other, whether it is a film or a short story. “The Most Dangerous Game” started off as a short-story, but was later turned into a film. Like many other films, the director has done some adjustments that differ from the short-story. The plot, setting, and characters were revised from the original form in the short-story. However, the difference in the characters was the most influential part that changed throughout the film.
“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.
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.”
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.
Tobias Wolff is framing his story Hunters in the Snow, in the countryside near Spokane, Washington, where three friends with three different personalities, decided to take a trip to the woods for hunting in a cold, snowy weather. The whole story follows the hunting trip of these three friends. The reader can easily observe that the cold, hostile environment is an outward expression of how the men behave towards one another. Kenny, with a heart made of ice is rather hostile to Tub, while Frank is cold and indifferent to Tub and his pleas for help.The environment is matching the characters themselves, being cold and uncaring as the author described the two from truck when they laughed at the look of Tub: “You ought to see yourself,” the driver said. “He looks just like a beach ball with a hat on, doesn’t he? Doesn’t he, Frank?”(48). Near the beginning of the story the cold and the waiting surely creates an impact in the mood of the character. Tub is restless from the wait and the cold adds on to it. He complains about being cold and Kenny and Frank, his friends tell him to stop complaining, which seems to be very unfriendly. Wolff builds up the story on the platform of cold weather and the impact of the cold on each character slowly builds up.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Fat, slow, gluttonous, or as Frank would say, "wasting away before my eyes," (168) are
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.