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
The stories The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence share similarities in their stories. The difference is based on the three major areas in examining any story which are the character, plot, and setting. In general, the atmosphere is configured so that readers are attracted to fiction. A brief prose tale that can be read in one sitting, usually plot function as the driving force. The writer allows the reader to have a complete view of the story, based on the configuration.
“The Lottery” Interpretive Essay “The Lottery”, a short story by Shirley Jackson, is about a lottery that takes place in a small village. The story starts of with the whole town gathering in the town square, where Mr. Summers, the official, holds the lottery. After that, every family draws out of an old black box, and a certain family gets picked. Out of the certain family, one person gets picked as the unlucky “winner” of the lottery. In this short story, after the Hutchinson family gets drawn, Tessie Hutchinson is declared “winner” of the lottery.
The Lottery of Death and Irony Many speak of the lottery of life, holding it accountable for its spirals and turns, misfortunes and surprises. However, a small, secluded town holds a very different lottery- the lottery of death. Shirley Jackson wrote The Lottery with irony, or an unexpected twist, to create a unique ending to an otherwise bland story. Although there are several types of irony, Jackson used situational irony, when what happens is different than what is expected by the audience, to its full extent.
The Lottery is a short story about a town of people that will crowd and all the men will get a slip of paper all the paper is blank… besides one and that one has a black dot, so a lucky person will get it and if they have a kid older than 16 they have play this game, anyway the winner will get a “prize”. The Lottery story and The Lottery movie have many things that were different. The Lottery story is different from The Lottery movie by where it is located and where the event took place, such as in the story they were sacrificing someone in a large field while in the movie they were stopped by the building. If they didn’t have the building in the way she could have lived longer while if they did she would have died sooner.
In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," the author has demonstrated each symbol and the meaning that holds behind them. The black box is culturally known as a dark and evil color. It represents the fate of the people in town, and the three-legged stool is used as a support for the black box to lay on top of the object. Stoning is ancient.
The Lottery itself represents a primal example of loss of innocence; portrayed through the young boys who gather at the town square to collect rocks for the horrors soon to follow. An illustration of how traditions can lose their true meanings and come to represent violence and warfare. Furthermore, “The Lottery” also represents the decaying characteristics of traditions, as symbolized by the town’s black box, in this case where every year, someone’s name is drawn out of the black box and they are stoned to death, by other members who may or may not end up to be family. Nonetheless, it ends up to be the villagers who
There are many ways that the two stories are different and alike. When my class did a compare and contrast of Aunty Misery and ' ' The Crane Maiden ' ' there were many differences than alike. This essay will be about comparing and contrasting. When we looked very hard, we were able to find some more.
“The Lottery”, a short story by Shirley Jackson, is about a lottery that takes place in a small village. The story starts off with the whole town gathering in the town square, where Mr. Summers holds the lottery. Once everyone gathers, every family draws a slip of paper out of an old black box, and the family with the black mark on their paper gets picked. After that, each family member older than 3 years of age re-draws a slip of paper again and this time, the person with the black mark on their paper gets picked as the “lucky winner” of the lottery. In this short story, after the Hutchinson family gets drawn, Tessie Hutchinson is declared “winner” of the lottery, with her reward is being stoned to death.
“The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson is atypical of any other story from its time. Jackson utilizes a shift in tone that is emphasized through the event’s location, attendees, and rituals found within her work to take readers on a wild ride. What begins as an average day on June 27, unfolds into a situation that never could have been expected. Jackson’s use of tone in “The Lottery” functions as a way to distract readers from the overall mood of the gathering. The pleasant and easy-going tone, presented throughout the beginning of Jacksons’s work aims to deter readers from questioning the villager’s initial motives.
But, as for, “The Lottery,” there is a serious, stern tone because the lottery is no laughing matter and it meant someone’s death. The final key difference is symbolism which is thoroughly used throughout, “The Lottery.”
How do relationships with others show our true personality? The way we communicate with others, views how people see us. In the story “ What of this Goldfish do you wish?” by Etgar Keret’s. Shirley Jackson’s “ The Lottery” and Diane Glancy’s “ Without Title”.
“The Lottery” is an realism/horror story written by Shirley Jackson. The story is about some villagers of a small New England town who follow the tradition of making a lottery every year. When it comes, they like to celebrate it with the correct rules and the correct objects so they can feel more comfortable. Everyone need to take a slip of paper from a small black box, and the paper with a black dot in it means that the family is the winner, then they raffle again; Bill Hutchinson, who was the husband of the protagonist Tessie Hutchinson picked a paper with a black dot in it, that meant that Tessie was the winner of the lottery, then she starts complaining because the drawing was not conducted properly. At the end, the townspeople moved off to a cleared spot outside the town and they begin stoning her to death (Jackson).
Similarities and Differences Between “The Interlopers and Two Friends” they are both different character wise because the interlopers shows two guys who hated each other but, later became friends when they were at the end of their life. The similarity between these two stories is they both revolve around only two men. In a short documentary on youtube it shows the two men making up and seeing that all this trouble they caused may have just caused their death. THe lar sentence in the first paragraph it says “Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy”. The first sentence in paragraph four it says “Every Sunday, that he met a tubby, jolly little man by the name of Sauvage.
Have you ever received a call to adventure? In the story “Beowulf”, translated by Burton Raffel, and the stories in “Call to adventure,” by Joseph Campbell, all of the main characters have a call to adventure. In “Beowulf,” the main character Beowulf’s call to adventure is to kill Grendel, a guy who murders Danish men. In the call to adventure stories, they are all driven one thing and they all want to get to one thing. The epic poem Beowulf exemplifies the claims made by Joseph Campbell regarding the hero’s call to adventure.
In the story of “The Rocking Horse Winner”, by D. H Lawrence it was an interesting story about love, money, and luck in life. This story talks about a family who lives in style,