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Compare And Contrast The Most Dangerous Game

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“The Most Dangerous Game” Contrast paper The most dangerous game by Richard Connell states that there was a guy named General Zaroff who believed in hunting humans. Also there was a man named richard who was a book writer and they both had different opinions.But what the General didn 't know was that rainsford was that was very very smart.and that the book and the movie had two different sides to the story. There is a movie and and a book and the book and the movie are very different. In the movie some people will say that rainsford was dumb founded because when general Zaroff was about to hunt them rainsford

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