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Most Dangerous Game And High Noon Analysis

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Being hunted doesn't seems fun based on these two stories, The Most Dangerous Game and High Noon. They both have similar conflict; running from enemies and being hunted. The Most Dangerous Game came out in 1924 and High Noon came out in 1952. Even though High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game have similar conflict, the setting and main characters and very different. A similarity of the stories is that they have the same conflict. "Ben is the first to shoot. His shot misses Kane, but Kane does not miss him. Ben whirls and goes down. Bullets from the other three pockmark the wall behind Kane" (Foreman 328). Will Kane was being hunted by four men because of revenge. The one man Frank Miller wanted to kill Kane because he had put Miller in jail

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