The Most Dangerous Game versus the Child by Tiger
How are the two stories “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Child by Tiger” similar and dissimilar? There are some parts in a story that are comparable to the other, but mostly you can tell that both the authors were trying to tell different stories. Even with the details that you read you can tell that the two authors were trying to be creative and write their own story. Regardless of the fact that they are unlike in their themes and characters, they share some similarity in their plots.
The theme in “The Most Dangerous Game” is obvious. It is good vs. evil, because Rainsford, which is apparently the good guy in this action/ adventure stories, because he immediately disapproves of the idea of hunting humans. On the other hand General Zaroff, who is the demented bad guy, thinks that Rainsfords is ludicrous, because he denies Zaroff offer to go hunting with him when he finds out what the “animal” is that they are hunting. For instance on pg. 15 Rainsford says “Hunting? Good god, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder” this quote shows its good “Rainsford vs. evil “Zaroff”. In the “Child by Tiger” the theme is not as clear as “The Most Dangerous Game”, even though the author spends more time exploring its theme. From what I inferred the theme is that good and evil exist in everyday life, in what form it may bring. For example Dick was a deeply religious man, and nobody would ever think that he would do something like that, but his evil was shown by his actions. Not only did he show his evil, but Randy and the possess had shown their evil as well.
Characters in both stories are unlike in many ways, but the characters that are the most plausible are the characters in the story “The Child by Tiger”, because this is more of an interpretive fiction, and these are more likely to have well rounded and more complex. The author of the story uses direct characterization to show how that dick was a good man and how he put his multiple talents to good use. Even when he
The theme in “The Most Dangerous Game” is obvious. It is good vs. evil, because Rainsford, which is apparently the good guy in this action/ adventure stories, because he immediately disapproves of the idea of hunting humans. On the other hand General Zaroff, who is the demented bad guy, thinks that Rainsfords is ludicrous, because he denies Zaroff offer to go hunting with him when he finds out what the “animal” is that they are hunting. For instance on pg. 15 Rainsford says “Hunting? Good god, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder” this quote shows its good “Rainsford vs. evil “Zaroff”. In the “Child by Tiger” the theme is not as clear as “The Most Dangerous Game”, even though the author spends more time exploring its theme. From what I inferred the theme is that good and evil exist in everyday life, in what form it may bring. For example Dick was a deeply religious man, and nobody would ever think that he would do something like that, but his evil was shown by his actions. Not only did he show his evil, but Randy and the possess had shown their evil as well.
Characters in both stories are unlike in many ways, but the characters that are the most plausible are the characters in the story “The Child by Tiger”, because this is more of an interpretive fiction, and these are more likely to have well rounded and more complex. The author of the story uses direct characterization to show how that dick was a good man and how he put his multiple talents to good use. Even when he