Comparing Uglies By Scott Westerfeld And The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

In stories, authors tend to use techniques that they enjoy within their writing. Some authors make a lot of analogies while others might focus on dialogue between the characters. Both of the author’s; Scott Westerfeld and Shirley Jackson, show many instances of descriptive sentences that do different things for the reader. In both Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, the author’s use description to illustrate the setting, give hints about the plot, and set the mood.

One of the things that makes both of Shirley Jackson and Scott Westerfeld’s writing better is the detail and description that helps the reader get a picture of the story. In the lottery, Shirley Jackson starts out the story with detail to create a visual setting, in the text on page 1 it says,” The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny with the fresh warmth of a full summer day. The flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green”. From this section of the text, the reader can picture a warm happy setting. Another example by Jackson is on page 3 where the author creates an understanding about the story by creating a visual setting,”The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the

It looked like the pretties were having some sort of event. She could hear the roar of a huge crowd across the water, a thousand cheers rising and falling together. The party towers were dark under the almost full moon, and the fireworks all shimmering hues of blue, climbing so high that they exploded in silence. I feel like Scott Westerfeld outdid himself with the detail in this paragraph. This paragraph really puts the reader into the story along with the character. When I read this I could hear the cheers of crowds and felt the joy that Tally, the main character was