Question

In “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Sniper”, Rainsford and the sniper both pursue their prey knowing if they don’t kill them, they will be killed. Compare and contrast their responses to their successful pursuit. How are they different at the end of the story?
Write a paragraph and use details from both stories to support your answer.

Answer 1

In “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Sniper”, the protagonists (Rainsford and The Sniper, respectively) share the similarity that both are both sneaky and intelligent while having to deal with a life or death situation against and antagonist. The differences between both short stories protagonist are that Rainsford see humans as superior to animals at the beginning and is scared about killing, while The Sniper does not have this ideology and its actually excited about killing. The end of “The Most Dangerous Game” implies that Rainsford was successfull at defeating his enemy as he observes that "he had never slept in a better bed". On the other hand, The Sniper has a dramatic end has the protagonist noticed that he killed his brother.