The Most Dangerous Game Vs High Noon Essay

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"The Most Dangerous Game" and High Noon
The Wild West and all of its stories, real or fake, were very popular in the 1950's. Cowboys, marshals, and bandits kept everyone, old or young, on the edge of their seats and wanting more. Adventure stories that took place on islands or in mysterious places with tons of action and difficult challenges left people wondering what was happening next captured people's attention. Although these two kinds of stories seem very different, when looked at from a different point of view they could be similar in many ways. High Noon is a movie set in the old west and "The Most Dangerous Game" is a short story that is action packed.
High Noon takes place in a boomtown called Hadleyville. It has only a few …show more content…

He is a marshal in his town and one of the men that he sent up to jail for murder is out and coming for him. Will gets the news that Frank Miller is on his way back to town on the noon train. There are numbered possible options that he has. He was already planning on leaving town to open up a store with his new wife, Amy, which he could still do. Will could stay in town and fight off Frank and his three friends, too. When discussing the possible outcomes with Amy, Will says, "'If he does, and if we run-they'll just come after us. Four of them, and we'd be all alone on the prairie,'" (Foreman 296). He is stuck in a sticky situation and he has to make quick decisions that could lead to life or death. In "The Most Dangerous Game" the main character is Sanger Rainsford, who is on a boat in the beginning of the story that is headed for the Amazon where he is going to hunt Jaguars. When he was awoken on night on the ship, he heard a loud noise and tried to look through the fog, but he accidentally fell of the ship. He swam in the direction that he heard the noise, because if there is noise there should be land. Once he got to the island, he passed out and woke up the next morning finding blood and a bullet casing of a gun with a twenty-two caliber. He walks towards the large house and then gets let in. The owner of the house, General Zaroff, recognized Rainsford from the books that

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