Most Dangerous Game Comparison

The leaves crunch under your feet. Wind is blowing through the trees and through your hair.Your heart leaps every time you hear or see something move. You are hunting. This is something both Rainsford, from “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, and Travis, from “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, love to do. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford gets stranded on an unkempt island and has to, as a game, try to outsmart the man who owns the island without getting killed. In “A Sound of Thunder,” Travis goes back in time with a group of people to kill a t-rex. Travis and Rainsford are both similar because hunting is a big part in both of their day-to-day lives, and it’s something they both love a lot. As I said earlier, Rainsford and

Travis’s love of hunting make them similar. Rainsford is on his way, with his partner Whitney, to the Amazon to hunt. On the way to the Amazon, Rainsford and his partner are talking about hunting and what a great sport it is, “‘The best sport in the world,’ agreed Rainsford.” (Connell 54). Rainsford has a deep passion and love for hunting and to him it’s the best sport in the world. Hunting is also a part of Travis’s day-to-day life and is something he loves.Travis is a Safari Guide at Time Safari, Inc. He takes people back in time to hunt game they would never be able to hunt in the present world. Eckels.

one of the new guys in Travis’s group, has just arrived and is meeting his group and group leaders. They are about to retrogress to the time where dinosaurs were alive, "’This is Mr. Travis, your Safari Guide in the Past. He'll tell you what and where to shoot. If he says no shooting, no shooting.’” (Bradbury 34) Travis must love hunting if he’s willing to go back in time with a bunch of people he doesn’t particularly know and trust them enough to not freak out, which could put everyone in the group in jeopardy. Plus, hunting is a part of his job, he needs to be an adroit hunter so that he can save everyone in his group if someone is to freak out. With this job you also have to be meticulous so that nothing gets messed up in the present, because once something goes wrong you can’t redress it. In both stories it is clear to see that both Rainsford and Travis have a deep passion and love for hunting. Hunting is a part of Rainford and Travis’s day-to-life. Rainsford and Travis are both similar because of their love of hunting, something neither of them could live without. Both stories show their love of hunting and what they do for hunting. The stories also show how far they will go to do something they love to

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