Essay Comparing The Most Dangerous Game And Hunters In The Snow

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“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff are different in ways as well as the same. Some things that are in the stories are the location, including the climate, the type of people and even though it is not said people discuss that how one of the side-characters die in both stories. The type of literature is a factor in these two stories like how “The Most Dangerous Game” is a commercial part of literature while “Hunters in the Snow” is a literary part of literature.
The location of the two stories are completely different besides for the fact that they are both in the wood, most likely different times of the year as well. The climate of the two stories are different in a couple ways. An example is how in “The Most Dangerous Game” the climate is a tropical island with animals as well as leaves to show it was during the summer. “Hunters in the Snow” is most likely in the winter, with snow on the ground. The characters in these stories are interesting as well as some would say mentally insane. Murder is involved in both stories one story, more than the other but none the least murder. The killer in “The Most Dangerous Game” is a long since childhood hunter that was eventually bored of hunting animals
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The story had been written in a typical commercial fiction was is written. For example, in the story Rainsford, the hunted, is trying to avoid being caught and killed by the General. The story builds up to the climax steadily for the suspense of if Rainsford will die or not. Literary fiction shows a more realistic type of stories, like how in “Hunters in the Snow” it is just three friends going hunting in the snow. Just like in real life the more men hang around each other the more they pick on each other as well. From this, it made tub feel unloved and insecure with his friends especially when kenny points the gun at