The End of The Conflict:
Usually book readers expect authors to write short stories in a complete simple to understand concept. However, when the authors want their work to be more interesting they choose to mix it up a little. One of the ways they do this is by not finishing the story and leaving the ending up to you (the reader). Although, usually authors stick to the basic stories, which is complete to understand because the other way can get the readers annoyed. Both of these options are displayed in two of the short stories we’ve read in this first 4 weeks, one has a incomplete ended story while the other story is very predictable yet it is still complete all the way through. The conflict, plot, characterization, and setting in “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Lady, or the Tiger?” make them particularly different experiences for readers.Conflicts are the main thing in a story that makes it a story, so let’s talk about conflicts now. “The Most Dangerous Game” the conflict is Rainsford fighting for sanity
because he is getting hunted. Rainsford accidentally fell off of a boat, and found a island now he is being hunted by a crazy man and he must find a way to escape. In “The Lady, or the Tiger?”, however, at the beginning the conflict seems to be between the king and princess, but then you swiftly notice that the conflict is in fact in the princess’s head.
This conflict is elaborate and consistent, making it a very interesting story to experience.
After the conflict comes the plot, both plot lines of these two stories are surprising and entertaining. “The Most Dangerous Game’s” plot is a bunch of consequential actions because when one thing happens in the story it affects the next one (this is more important than regular ones because it is more suspenseful). “The Lady, or the Tiger?”, though, is clearly unpredictable. The plot moves quite quickly in this short story. “The Lady, or the Tiger?” changes the readers focus which makes it more intriguing to read.
Characterization is the next step in the process of supporting the thesis information. Characterization can be displayed in many forms like the characters could be made “flat” or “round”, “static” or “dynamic”, etc. I am going to explain to you how the authors characterized the characters (characterization), like the “The Lady, or the Tiger?” I would describe as odd and shocking. While, “The Most Dangerous Game” I would believe in are normal and unpredicted.
Setting, setting, setting, that’s where you do the videoing. “The Lady, or the Tiger?” setting is useless, pointless, and unimportant. The reason it os pointless is because where they are doesn’t particularly affect what happens. While, “the Most Dangerous Game” setting is like a dense jungle or a forest. This setting is important because how else can zaroff hunt Rainsford?
We read “the Most Dangerous Game” in these four weeks because it was somewhat predictable, complete, regular yet odd, and had some surprises, and quite interesting. It was also boring. In “The Lady, or the Tiger?” the author used a different technique equaling the opposite of “the Most Dangerous Game” as a useless scenery, used straight character portrayal, changing the schemes spotlight, and making the story’s conflict a internal conflict. Evidently “the Most Dangerous Game” and “The Lady, or the Tiger?” are very different stories. Personally I prefer the
“The Lady, or the Tiger?” because the author lets you choose what you want the ending to be, also the author took the time and figured out a way to make a story like this.
