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Similarities Between The Lottery And The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

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“The Lottery” vs “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” “The Lottery” and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” are two short stories that are alike in many ways and also different in other ways: one way “The Lottery” is similar to “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is that they both dealt with sacrifice and the difference was in “The Lottery”, Tessie was stone to death and in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, the unnamed child was kept in a basement. “The Lottery” was written by Shirley Jackson in 1948, which took place in a small village: whereas, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” was written by Ursula K. LeGuin in 1973, which took place in the city of Omelas. Both short stories describe how people were used as a scapegoat …show more content…

The lottery took place every year around June 27th and was held for less than two hours. Tessie gives away that she has participated for a long time just by her actions. Being that Tessie was delighted to participate in the lottery; she was selfish enough to sacrifice her own children. Tessie protest that they did not give her enough time to draw a slip. Mr. Summer allows just the Hutchinson family to draw from the black box again after Tessie tantrum. After Tessie name was called to open her slip she realizes that she was the chosen one for the annual lottery. As a result, of Tessie winning the lottery people gather stones up to throw at her which was used as a weapon. Being that it's a tradition no one says its wrong to kill …show more content…

In “The Lottery”, the adults taught the children how to use stones as a weapon to kill not realizing that it was wrong, yet, while all the people in Omelas would enjoy life of fun times while knowing of the child existence. The lottery would happen in June while on the other hand, the joyous life of Omelas would last year

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