Theme Of Trust In The Hunger Games And The Lottery

In the story “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, residents of a New England village gather in a square between the post office and the bank in the morning of June 27th for the annual lottery. The lottery is a ritual tradition that the villagers follow yearly consisting the same old rules that have only been changed. The year’s winner of the lottery is a lady named, Tessie Hutchinson, the prize she earns is unbelievable. Theme and symbolism are used in story to make the irony of the story more intense, by making the prize for the lottery unforeseen to the reader.

“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).

Effie Trinket was the representative for District 12. Everyone from their district gathered to see who would be participating in the 74th annual Hunger Games. On the other hand, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson differs in the selection process. During the drawing the narrator stated, “It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office.” (Jackson 7).

Likewise, Katniss seems to be making fun of the popular slogan of the Hunger Games: “May the odds be ever in your favor.” Obviously the odds are not in anyone’s favor because at the end of the day the tributes are either going to die or they are going to kill everyone else and have to live with the memories for the rest of their lives. Their is no real winner in that situation, yet the Capital makes it seem like a fun game, the Hunger “Games”. Capital children are mocking it because they know they never have to live it. According to Maria Magher, “The people of District 12 suffer daily from hunger and poverty.

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This tradition is based on a lottery. There would be this lottery and every family has their name on it by force since it is a tradition and the family that gets picked would have to do another lottery to see which one in the family dies. To know which person in the family dies every person in the family gets a paper and the paper with the black dot dash. In the lottery someone picks out a family name and the family name that year was the Hutchinsons. The Hutchinsons were pretty mad and mostly Tessie Hutchinson, who started shouting that this is unfair.

Many themes could be interpreted throughout the “The Lottery”. While Shirley Jackson is writing “The Lottery”, she gives a good theme of tradition. Throughout the whole story she explains the little events the people of the village do once a year, the day the lottery takes place. The villagers take tradition so far when it is time for the lottery because they have done the event so long they see nothing wrong with it. The lottery is taking someone’s life away because that person drew a black dot.

This relates to the theme of jealousy because Mr. Putnam is so jealous of other people’s land that he accuses them of witchcraft so they lose their belongings, and he can take it. In addition, Ann Putnam is Very jealous of Rebecca Nurse. Ann Putnam thinks she is cured because she has lost so many children and Rebecca Nurse has so many.

She was known for her more popular short stories such as; “The Lottery”, “Life Among Savages”, and “Hangsam”. Shirley Jackson wrote the lottery on a warm June day and only took two hours. Although many people hated it, and were very confused she never offered an explanation about what the deep meaning was. The short story “The Lottery,” is based in a small village in England. Once a year a so called “Lottery” is held, where one person will be stoned to death.

As disturbing as this may be, it is not about as startling as the foul play among relatives. Obviously these families had no warmth for each other. On the other hand possibly, they saw each other basically as pawns which would diminish the likelihood of their being picked at the lottery. Mr. Hutchinson's last words to his significant other were " “Shut up, Tessie Mrs. Hutchinson, when she sees the probability of herself being picked, rapidly tries to decline her chances by asking that her married young lady pick moreover. Her children, instead of imparting alert over her quick moving toward passing, exhibit perfect festival when they see that their lives are spared.

Many towns have traditions that they are not willing to let go of, but none like the one in the story The Lottery. Unlike most traditions this one does not have a happy ending. If you draw the chosen ticket from the black box you are then pegged with rocks by your whole town including your family. The forsaken tradition that this town is not willing to let go is dangling on by a thread. Many signs are shown throughout the story that the tradition that they thought would last forever is not going to last so long.

When Mr. Summer starts to perform the ceremony every head of household has to grab a piece of paper from a black wooden box. The family that gets the “marked” piece of paper is the chosen one; in this case, the Hutchinsons were the chosen ones. Now all the family members

Some of the characters think it 's stupid not to do the lottery. Everybody is happy in this story except for the winner. Most of the characters in the story have one opinion. They all seem to enjoy the lottery.

They have been having the lottery since before the oldest resident that lives there. “I think that it is good for people and the people who are stopping the lottery aren’t smart,” said Old Man Warner,the oldest resident of Smallville. The type of lottery that takes place in smallville happens every year on June 27th. The whole town gathers in the town square where one person from each family picks a slip of paper,

First I was excited about the lottery and fully willing to participate every year, but when my family’s name was drawn, I protest that the lottery isn’t fair. I just honestly didn’t need this in my life, don’t get me wrong it is fun to watch other people