Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” and Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games share a similar plotline, but have extremely contradictory moods. “The Lottery” is a short story by author Shirley Jackson that has a easygoing, casual mood despite its horrific plot. The text tells of a small village that holds a yearly ritual known as “The Lottery” in which one person is chosen at random and stoned to death. However, Jackson’s choice of words makes the reader feel calm and at ease. In the story’s opening, the day is described as “...clear and sunny with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green” (Jackson 1). The portrayal of the flourishing plant life and bright sun adds charm to the village and puts the reader …show more content…
The novel is told from the eyes of Katniss Everdeen, a young girl forced to fight for her life in The Hunger Games due to an annual “reaping” of names. Toward the beginning of the novel, Katniss describes the area where the reaping is held, noting that “...Today, despite the bright banners hanging on the buildings, there’s an air of grimness. The camera crews, perched like buzzards on the rooftops only add to the effect” (Collins 16-20). The audience is put off by the way such a bright and colorful area becomes something sinister and disturbing. Likewise, the camera crews being compared to buzzards makes the reader feel uncomfortable and even a little frightened. Later, Katniss finally arrives at the reaping and mentions that “Family members line up around the perimeter, holding tightly to one another’s hands” (Collins 16-20). These people sound terrified and afraid, eventually provoking similar feelings in the audience. In The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins uses strong words to invoke a feeling of fear and tension in her audience similar to the feelings her characters are
The story of The Lottery instantly reminded me of The Hunger Games as well. There are some very visible parallels between The Lottery and the reaping ceremonies of The Hunger Games. In both cases innocent people are selected at random to be killed and there 's nothing that can be done about it. Very similarly, each year people gather in their town square to meet their fates. We don 't know when the tradition of the lottery started and it 's impossible to know when it will end.
There are several aspects of plot development that were involved in the creation of both, “The Lottery,” and “The Hunger Games,”; some of which deem these The Lottery and The Hunger Games similar and others that distinguish one another different. When comparing both these works of art for similarities, it is apparent that many of their overall themes are similar. Both, The lottery and The Hunger Games involve an involuntary selection, that ultimately results in the suffering of those picked and death. These two works of art are, also, similar in the aspect that the people of the highest social class rarely suffer in result of these selections. Although, both The Lottery and The Hunger Games have more similarities than differences, one of the
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live” (Norman Cousins). The story, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and the movie “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins are both about death and dying. In the lottery people are to pull a paper out and if they have the black symbol, they will get stoned to death. In the hunger games, a piece of paper that has a black mark on it is drawn.
She explains that the electrified fence rarely works and has many holes in it, and how the Peacekeepers are supposed to arrest anyone who trespasses into the wild, but they keep quiet because of their hunger “for fresh meat”. (Collins, page 5) This relates to the theme because of how the fence not functioning properly, it’s not keeping people in, and not be in full working order. This shows that even the government cannot manage everything, keep everyone in. The Peacekeepers represent that even when enforcing the law is their job, they are willing to overlook Katniss because she provides food.
The person picked is the “winner” of the lottery and gets their prize, a dark fate. The Hunger Games is placed in a country with a big city and 12 small districts. Each year, a female and a male between the ages of twelve-eighteen to compete in the Hunger Games. These games were created as a reminder to the districts that the capitol is in control. Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” although having key differences, are very similar when it comes to theme and author’s craft.
Anthem There are many reasons why dystopian story draw young adults attention. Many young adults compare the books/stories to their life. Adults don’t give them any freedom. They are told to do everything. they have too many rules for life, they can never have fun.
Surrounded by death in the arena, she begins to recognize that her true enemies are not the tributes against whom she fights, but the people who forced them to fight in the first place. In the beginning of the Games, Katniss is convinced that Peeta is an enemy. In reality, however, Peeta has forged a false alliance with tributes from rival districts as a means of protection: he stays with them only to ensure that they stay away from Katniss. When Katniss finally learns this fact—and realizes how close she came to hurting an ally—she is transformed by the reality that the enemy is not always who it appears to be. Another striking moment of awareness arises in Chapter Eighteen, when a boy from District 1 kills Rue, a fellow competitor—but more importantly, Katniss’s
The stories "The Lottery" and "The Hunger Games" are very similar to one another. Both stories show fear, sacrifice, and violence in some way. The government is corrupt and is not willing to stop deadly traditions that have gone on for too long. These traditions should have never started in the first place. In "The Lottery," citizens fear that they will no longer be able to grow crops as a result of not having this deadly game.
Persuasive essay During this unit we have read many short stories about Utopian societies and living with alternative identities. A Utopian Society is where everything runs smoothly and ]lawful while governed Carefully and equally. It is not possible to achieve a Utopian society in which every citizen is equal because Not everyone is a law abiding Citizen. So order can never be maintained.
Thomas 1 Joshua Thomas Ashley Allee English 115 February 23,2017 Compare and Contrast Essay Both Katniss and Tessie question the reasons for the continue the tradition each year and allowing the cruel activities to continue causing deaths each year through the lottery and reaping. In their own way both Tessie and Katniss are rebellious towards the demands of the government. Even Tessie complains to the villagers while Katniss acts out, but both resent the level of intrusion into their levels. But each character resent the government intrusion into their towns life. In each story the government demands someone death as punishment or to appease their tradition.
Throughout centuries, traditions and rituals have had the ability to control one’s behavior. In Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery”, she tells the reader of a small village. On the surface, this community may seem relatively normal. However, despite the picturesque appeal, this falsely serene village has a distinct deceitful flaw. On June 27th, every year, a lottery takes place.
The famous novel The Hunger Games was written by Suzanne Collins. The book was published on September 14, 2008 and became an award winning nominee in 2012. In this book, the main protagonist Katniss Everdeen volunteered as a tribute for her younger sister Primrose Everdeen in the Hunger Games. When the theaters announced that the award- winning book was about to be launched, everyone knew that the movie and the book would be different. The main plots of the book that was different from the book were the scene where Katniss was leaving District 12, the “mutt scene” , and the new version of Seneca Crane, the gamemaker.
The book, The Hunger Games, tells the story of a girl and her sister—Katniss and Prim—in their struggle to overcome emotional and physical challenges under President Snow’s reign. An annual event is held by the government in which 2 participants from each district are selected and sent to battle to death. Prim is selected; nevertheless, due to Katniss’s evergreen love for Prim, she volunteers in her place. Katniss essentially sacrificed herself for her sister’s life, showing the extremes that people will seek in order to save lives, even if they lose theirs in the
“The Hunger Games” contains a lot of similarities and differences. It was easy for a reader to identify more differences than similarities. There is a lot of similarities. For example here i some. Katniss received a mockingjay pin in the movie and novel.
Now see how Hunger Games are very unalike in seeing the whole meaning of love, relationship, and status. Hunger Games shows how staying alive and surviving are the main factor of the novel. Other than that it shows the way young lives are exploited in a life-or-death reality show that gratifies the voyeurism of the indulgent residents of the Capitol. There is a way of thinking that love and violence and survival are commodified for the viewers who watch the games. It is only for amusement that pleases the people, in a way this shows how young people in that particular setting could not even feel a normal experience where they would have feel love, anger, and bittersweet things.