Many stories have an important lesson shown as a result of the resolution of the conflict. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, Rainsford learns an important lesson about hunting when he is trapped on General Zaroff’s island. While in “Something for Nothing,” written by Jeffrey Archer, Jake gets in trouble with a group of thugs when he try’s to steal their $100,000.
When Rainsford, and expert hunter, is stranded on General Zoroff’s island he doesn’t realize that he is about to become the hunted. The story is very ironic by the fact that he says that he was born a hunter, but he then is forced to play the role of the hunted animal. In the beginning of the story he expressed that he had no feelings for the animals he hunted, but after becoming the prey his perspective of the hunted animal changes drastically. When Jake, in “Something for Nothing,” finds that his phone line has crossed, he hears a very inviting proposition.
He listens to two men talking about a package that will be picked up at a newsstand at eight o’clock, in the package there will be $100,000. Like any other human being, Jake went to get the money before the other man on the phone got to it. When he had succeeded in getting the money, and getting home safely he thought that he was in the clear, he was wrong.
After a short time, while talking to his mother about a scam that he had just fallen for, there was a banging at the door. When Jake answered, expecting his wife and kids, he was shocked to find three thugs forcing him into the wall. When Jake realized that he had burned $100,000 it was to late to save himself. So as you can see, if something seem to good to be true, it probably is, and if you cant expand your point of view on your own, you may be forced to along the path of life. This is what Rainsford and Jake have been put through in these two stories.
