Compare And Contrast The Lottery And The Rocking Horse Winner

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Shamyra Thompson Fiction Compare and Contrast Essay ENG 102-B27 Liberty University Outline Thesis: In the short, fictional stories, “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and “The Lottery”, they both share some similarities with each other, however there are differences in both of their plot, conflicts and structures. I. In both of the short stories, both of the main characters dies, but their conflicts are very different, as well as happens differently. A. In “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, you will recognize immediately that the conflict is that family is poor, and can’t afford to buy anything. B. In “The Lottery”, is not evident at the beginning of the story. The conflict is the lottery winner against the town’s …show more content…

Just as both short stories have a conflict, they also have different plots up until the stories ends in death. A. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” has more of a dramatic irony that sets the plot. The story mainly focuses on Paul, and him slowly becoming ill and leading up to his death. B. Different from the story “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, “The Lottery”, has a different nature leading up to its plot. It begins with a delightful opening that gradually takes an unpleasant turn, as it gets closer to the ending, which ends in death as well. III. In comparison to the plot, the relations between the two stories are structured in many different ways, but both stories ends similarly. A. In “The Lottery”, the story is written in a way that has the reader in suspense throughout the story and ends in death and sadness when the Tess dies. B. The Rocking Horse Winner is suspenseful as well, however it begins with a pleasant tone, but end in death and sadness of Paul. The Lottery and The Rocking-Horse …show more content…

It starts pleasant with the children in a small village playing with one another and people in the small town talking with one another. However, in the story “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, it don’t begin as pleasant as it does in “The Lottery”. It begins with a dreary introduction of how a mother, who couldn’t love her children, but everyone around her believed that she loved and adored her children. Although it shares how unhappy they all were, they all lived in a pleasant house with subtle servants. Even though the house was pleasant, the atmosphere in the house was unpleasant due to the parents not having a lot of money. In the story, “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, there is an unordinary conflict between the mother and her children. She is very disconnected from her children and her main concern is to maintain this certain life style she’s been living up until she has bad luck with finances. In comparison, “The Lottery” was dealt with luck as well. Tessie, a house wife and mother, who was also unlucky in a lottery drawing that took place in the village where she lived and then causes her death. The conflict in this story was

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