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The Most Dangerous Game: The Value Of Human Life
A possible theme to the Gifted Hands film could be "the value of human life". This is a probable central theme because this film is about a kid who grows up to be a very compassionate doctor who will try anything to save a life. For example when Ben Carson is charged with separating siamese twins, a task never preformed before, he recalls on how his to-be born children died and how it would effect his clients to have only one of their baby's, and he could not take, to killing such a young life. This theme relates to the short story called "The Most Dangerous Game". In that story the main theme was also "the value of human life", here are the reasons why; In the short story Rainsford is a hunter which points to the fact that he is imprudent

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