Compare And Contrast The Destructors And The Lottery

"The Lottery", is a story about how people stick to tradition. It describes how painstakingly people do not give up tradition and would rather kill someone than give it up. In the beginning, all of the townspeople are gathered in the TownSquare just as they do every year on this day. All the man and women are

    "The Lottery," a short story written by Shirley Jackson, is a tale about a disturbing social practice.  The setting takes place in a small village consisting of about three hundred denizens.  On June twenty-seventh of every year, the members of this traditional community hold a village-wide lottery in which everyone is expected to participate.  Throughout the story, the reader gets an odd feeling regarding the residents and their annual practice.  Not until the end does he or she gets to know what the lottery is about.  Thus, from the beginning of the story until almost the end, there is an overwhelming sense that something terrible is about to happen due to the Jackson's effective

Comparing the two stories regarding regional writing, “The Destructors” setting was inspired by Greene’s own geographical location and his own experiences regarding World War II. In Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the location is vaguer. She paints a picture of a small rural farming type town and didn’t seem to draw inspiration from places she herself has lived. Jackson tells us in an interview that the story came to her rather quickly and tells how it came about. Jackson says, “I had the idea fairly clearly in my mind when I put my daughter in her playpen and the frozen vegetables in the refrigerator and, writing the story, I found that it went quickly and easily, moving from beginning to end without pause. As a matter of fact, when I read it over later I decided that except for one or two minor corrections, it needed no changes, and the story I finally typed up and sent off to my agent the next day was almost word for word the original draft.” Jackson’s main point was to shock its readers, “with a graphic dramatization of the

“Even thought the black box lost its meaning they still remembered to use stones”(Griffin8). The villagers remembered the negative and not the positive in the ritual. The villagers don't think about others just themselves. Griffins statements can be used to state my claim about cruelty behavior. Their main arguments can be used in my essay towards authority and violence. Griffins article talks about how the villagers are being brought down by Old Man Warner and continues the tradition and converting it to violence. Instead of standing up to Warner and protesting that is not right to treat human beings as a form of assumption in sacrifice in order for crop growth to

The author of “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson decided it was important to write this short story in order to inform the readers about another dimension, where a certain common tradition gets prized with something obscure. Some readers can be shocked when reading this story, because they might be surprised and even shocked with the themes that play along in the storyline. This short story “The Lottery” was so controversial at the time, because in the date it was published in June 24, 1948 there were so many themes from the stories that could relate to past events or even event that were taking place at the time.

“The Destructors” is a short fiction story by Graham Greene. The setting of the story is in London 9 years after the conclusion of World War II. The short story has to do with a group of teenage boys who call themselves the Wormsley Common gang, named after the area they live in. As a result of World War II, the area that the teenagers live in has been destroyed and many properties lay in ruins with the exception of one house. This is the house of Mr. Thomas who is known as “Old Misery”. The Wormsley Common gang has planned to destroy the house of Old Misery because they wanted to gain fame and reputation in the area for being a tough gang. Another reason why they destroyed the house is because it reminded them of higher society, something that was out of reach for the teenagers. Throughout the short story, the theme that is being conveyed by Greene is the loss of innocence.

Introduction and overview of the short stories, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell.

The contrast of both stories “The Lottery” by Jackson (1949) and “The Destructors” by Greene (1977) is reflective through the emotions of the words in the story. The dispensation of characters in two stories "The Lottery" and "The Destructors" both represents a flow of compare and contrast in the character division. A character is a mean to display the emotions, feelings and things that are sometimes inexpressible. Tessie Hutchinson is the women character in the Lottery, the story clearly demonstrates the terrific and horror related feelings towards the whole perspective of the story (Griffin, 1999). The comparison is, the character and main leader of the story in "The Destructors" named "Blackie", is also intentionally threatening the inside functions

The story, The Lottery, also made into two films, is filled with mystery, dread, and challenges moral dilemmas within the characters in the story. During both the movie and the story it introduces the idea of a tradition, one that can be considered twisted and immoral. This tradition consists of a drawing of the entire town after a winner has drawn a paper with a mark on it, they are declared the winner, in the end, the winner gets stoned by the other citizens. In each individual story, there seems to be one recurring theme, one’s compliance towards following traditions and rituals blindly. This message is best portrayed in the sequel, The Lottery. One example of this is when a character by the name of Felice opposed the idea of her town,

“The Lottery” and “The Destructors” are both very intriguing short stories. Imagine being out in the hot, bright sun and then suddenly being stoned by fifty people or driving up to your house one day from being out of town and seeing your house completely gone. Feelings or emotions of hurt, sorrow, or loneliness begin to appear. People can be cruel for no reason because that individual is not happy with their life or simply jealousy. Shirley Jackson who wrote “The Lottery” and Graham Green who wrote “The Destructors do an excellent job of portraying an interesting theme and intensifying their short stories. “The Lottery” and “The Destructors” have similar themes of random destruction, but the author uses different settings to set apart

The theme of the story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, it is that people fallow tradition to closely. What the people see as harm, to them a tradition game of chance where the unlucky one dies is crude and out of date. The story states " Some places have already quit lotteries." Mr. adams said. " giveing indection that villages around them seeing the horors of it.

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a story based on a small New England town or village of 300 people. Each year the townspeople gather to draw slips of paper to decide their fate. If they

“The Lottery” documents a small village’s voting process for the lottery and the traditions that keep the town close. Some of the main characters are introduced in the initial scene of the townspeople gathering at the town square. The boys in the crowd search for rocks to add to a pile on the side of the square. The schoolgirls of the “village” are standing near them, talking amongst each other. The men of the village came back from work and talked about farming and finance issues farther away from the boys. Then the women, mothers of the children and housewives, emerged from their homes and gossiped before joining their husbands.

The lottery is a short story about a small town of villagers who once a year gather in the town square to carry out a tradition that is held every summer. Three important character in this story that I'm going to talk about are Mr. Joe Summers (the leader of The Lottery, Old Man Warner (The oldest man in town) and Tessie Hutchinson (the lucky winner of The Lottery).

The Lottery begins like any other day. Clear and sunny skies, flowers blossoming, and green grass. Seemingly nothing out of the ordinary. Then people begin to gather in the town square. What is this lottery that is taking place? Do the people of the town agree with it? These questions can only be answered by exploring the minds of the people in the town.