Scarlet Ibis Vs The Most Dangerous Game

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The 2 short stories, The Most Dangerous Game and The Scarlet Ibis are both part of the literary canon for 9th graders. Out of these 2 short stories, The Most Dangerous Game has more useful literature than The Scarlet Ibis. The literature that the most dangerous game that was superior to the Scarlet Ibis is language, Universal theme, original perspective, and imagery The first quality that is done more effectively is language, language is descriptive writing because it puts a clear and defined image in my head, there is a clear or defined pacing in the story (slow or fast), and finally, the tone is how the author wants me to perceive the tone in the story. The first example of language in The Most Dangerous Game is “Watch! Out there. Exclaimed …show more content…
This has phenomenal language because the imagery is when he states “his curious red-lipped smile”(Marx 6). I can imagine someone with red lips smiling and this has excellent pacing when he states “ then he slowly said “NO”(Marx 7). He clearly shows how he wants me to perceive it and slows the pace of all readers. The next quality the most dangerous game had that was exponentially better than the Scarlet Ibis is a universal theme (Adventure). In The Scarlet Ibis, I have to be highly emotional to relate to the story, by doing that I couldn't relate to the story but I find the most dangerous game more intriguing because I relate to being out in the woods and living on what I find or kill. I could easily understand that the most dangerous game is more adventurous because of the line “trying to peer through the bitter tropical night that palpably pressed its thick warm blackness upon the yacht”(Marx 1). This phrase from The Most Dangerous Game uses fantastic imagery and shows it is an adventurous book. Another line that shows adventure in this book is the phrase “An unbroken front of snarled and ragged jungle frigid the shore. Then he straightened up and took from his case one of his black cig***ttes”(Marx