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Most Dangerous Game Vs High Noon Essay
High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game. How would you feel if somebody hunts you down the forest or come. The Most Dangerous game and High Noon are both American classics and they both texts play hunting. Both main characters in the text get hunted. Both characters in text survive. Both texts are similar in some way and different in some way. Although High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game have similarities about what happens when the main character gets hunted, patterns in the stories are different. The patterns are different in High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game it shows how Kane was asking for help from the town but nobody was down to help him and how Zaroff was hunting Rainsford. "Maybe some of you already know. If you don't. It looks like Frank Mitchell's coming back on the Noon train. I need as many special deputies as I can get" (Foreman 312). Even after asking for help nobody was down to help Kane to fight Mitchell. "You'll find this game worth playing." Your brain against mine. Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine. Outdoor …show more content…

Will Kane don't get shot mad Rainsford tricked general zaroff and save ships life and he won the game. "Without a backward glance, KANE and AMY ride out of the town, the crows remains silent (Foreman 332). After defeating Frank Mitchell and his Gang, Kane drops his badge on the ground and Kane and Amy ride out of the town. "I congratulate you," he said. "You have won the game." "I am still a beast at bay," he said, in a low, hoarse voice. "Get ready, General Zaroff" (Connell). General Zaroff congratulates Rainsford for winning the game and Rainsford is telling General Zaroff to get ready because he may kill him. The quotes explain the similarity between the themes, how both were being hunted and how both

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