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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of Connell and Wolfe. Short stories are compared to demonstrate a unity of theme. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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body of stories can be boiled down to a handful of universal themes. However, the joy of literature is that the rich variety of stories indicates that while the same
fundamental ideas might continually lie at the center of the human experience, those topics can be treated in an infinitude of different ways, using different stylistic approaches and methods to
emphasize different aspects of the theme. This point can be understood by looking at two radically different stories that nonetheless share a common theme: "Child by Tiger" by Thomas Wolfe
and "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. This section of the paper helps the student provide a brief summary of both texts. Connells story, "The Most Dangerous Game"
is the tale of a sailor, Rainsford, who is inadvertently stranded at sea and forced to find succor on an isolated island where lives the big game hunter General Zaroff
and his assistant Ivan. Rainsford, a hunter himself, at first enjoys the company of Zaroff but he soon comes to realize that the General has gone mad, and likes to
make sport of "hunting humans" in his private jungle (Connell, 2011). Zaroff enjoys the sense of sport and excitement that an intelligent form of prey offers, in comparison to tracking
animals. At the end of the text, Rainsford is forced to use all of his animalian instinct to outwit Zaroff and kill him. He is forced to acknowledge that Zaroffs
perspective on humanity, that people are merely advanced animals, is somewhat correct. In Wolfes story, "The Child by Tiger", a similar story is told but in a radically different
context. This story is the tales of Dick Prosser, a servant in a post-bellum Southern society which retains a great deal of racist sentiment. Prosser is described throughout the text
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