Most Dangerous Game Vs. The Hunger Games

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Chasing another person to kill for a game is dangerous, just like the movie “The Hunger Games” you have to fight against others to survive and live. The people watch for fun and the organization enjoy the young teenagers try to kill one another to live. “The Most Dangerous Game” has a similar plot twist too, showing one man ending up on the dreadful island all sailors never want to go. The young teenagers never want to be chosen to go fight against others either. The settings are similar by the trapped area of “the hunters and the huntees” as Rainsford describes them, you only have so far to run then you have to turn around and run another way (1). Rainsford soon realized and said to General Zaroff, “Hunting? Great Guns, General Zaroff, what

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