Similarities Between The Lottery And Saboteur

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”.

One afternoon Shirley Jackson decided to write “The Lottery,” all in one day. Jackson sets up the story by describing specific details about the town and where they were gathering to form a twisted end. “The Lottery,” and “The Hunger Games,” seem to have quite a few similarities. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson both show how humans are drawn to violent traditions and the hypocrisy human’s possess towards violence. I do believe author Suzanne Collins was influenced by Jackson to create her novels.

Democracy and personal rights are a key component of American society and belief system, but citizens have begun to take the liberties given to them for granted. They have been around for so long no one can imagine society without them. Bryan Rittgers takes on a sarcastic and witty tone in his satiric essay in order to portray the irony of undervaluing the importance of rights to normal American citizens.

Unsatisfying death, in multiple forms, is the overall theme of The Cask of Amontillado and The Lottery. Theme, the underlying or main idea of a work of literature, connects the work The Cask of Amontillado, written by Edgar Allan Poe, and the work The Lottery, written by Shirley Jackson. The literary language devices that can be identified in both Poe’s and Jackson’s works, that uphold this theme, are symbolism and foreshadowing. The idea of unfair murder in The Lottery connects to the theme along with the idea of cheating murder in The Cask of Amontillado. Therefore, in the short stories, both Edgar Allan Poe and Shirley

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

In the short story, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and the movie, “The Hunger Games”

She writes according to the Chinese superstitions of fate and keeps thoughts of good and bad luck within the minds of the characters. As Peanut’s sister says, “I am only saying that’s how it happened. . . . Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. . . . If you don’t take a chance, someone else will give you his luck. And if you get bad luck, then you need to take chance to turn things from bad to good. Of course everything is connected” (123). Through her traditional Chinese characters, Tan shows the fervent beliefs in fate and luck which bolster the underlying theme that the unfolding of an individual’s fate is dependent on previous decisions. Her descriptions of fervent New Year celebrations further display these beliefs associated with the Chinese population. These depictions make the plot and theme more realistic to the reader, proving it to be based off of reality and not simply emergences from Tan’s imagination. In “Peanut’s Fortune”, these traditional beliefs are embedded in the thoughts of Peanut and her sister, whose perspectives and fates change due to a chance meeting with a fortune-teller. While narrating the story, Peanut’s sister incorporates the beliefs of fate and luck as reasons to how her destiny, as well as her sister’s, had unveiled itself according to the circumstances surrounding

Individual suffering is evident in Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery”, a theme also taken up by author Ursula Le Guin in her story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”. The theme of an individual person taking on the responsibility of society to suffer for the rest of civilization to live in happiness is a similarity between the two short stories.The difference is the realization of why that one individual has to suffer.

In the fabricated short stories “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K LeGuin and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, both have descriptive meanings of sacrifice. In these short stories, sacrifice is enforced to become beneficial for everyone else in these communities. By comparing and contrasting these short stories between how the society is developed, what is being sacrificed, and how the sacrifice is beneficial, shows how this helps make everyone in these communities mirthful.

There are still some bad people in the world, and sometimes they aren’t who you would expect. Shirley Jackson uses different ways to trick the readers in, The Lottery, and, The Possibility of Evil. These two short stories involve two small towns and an ironic ending for the female protagonists. The stories are meant to use different types of irony to fool the readers or the protagonist.

Understanding and knowledge of one another is essential yet frustrating when a barrier exists. In Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club, she portrays the story of four mothers and daughters using their points of view. One mother-daughter pair is Jing-mei and Suyuan Woo. When Suyuan dies, Jing-mei has to try and fill her place in the Joy Luck Club that includes Suyuan’s friends: An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair. Amy Tan uses characterization to point out the character’s pride, lack of understanding, and resentment in order to illuminate the heritage lost between Jing-mei and Suyuan Woo.

Both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins are about dystopian societies in which life and death events occur. They are similar in a way and not similar in a way.

America is often coined ‘land of the free, home of the brave’, it resonates feelings of pride and superiority to be free of all forms of oppression and be a nation with strict codes of natural rights. These certain rights become unanimous to being a citizen of a country or even the world, those rights have been developed over time and are pivotal in various forms of cultural framework. Although the United States, and United Nations have developed various rules and regulations to enforce and guide the basic rights of human beings and citizens of particular countries, there are still social divides. The Declaration of Independence and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights became a promise for people, but in Alice Goffman’s On the Run, both documents provide an outline of basic human rights stripped. The accounts on Sixth Street show a violation of human rights through punitive policing, fear of

Higuchi Ichiyo and she was the first major Japanese woman writer in the sixth century. She was born in poverty-stricken environment and she was barely educated. Ichiyo’s first major accomplishments was Child’s Play (970-971). Ichiyo was a very accomplished writer during her time. In her short story, “Separate Ways”, she talks about a poverty-stricken environment in which these two characters live. The poverty-stricken environment that Ichiyo uses in her short story is the red light district in Tokyo. Ichiyo uses her own experiences of growing in poverty to help develop this story. The first character that the reader is introduced to is Kichizo and he works in an umbrella shop and he oils umbrella’s. He has developed a friendship which almost

One can be blind in the eye or by the heart… “A Secret For Two” by Quentin Reynolds is about a secret shared between a blind man and his only true friend, Joseph. On the other hand, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a warning to humans that violence can happen very often and can be committed by the most ordinary people. A Secret for two and the lottery both uses foreshadowing and suspense to keep the reader on the edge, and share a similarity in language. However, these two stories have a significant differ in mood expressed using different details.