Comparing Rich For One Day And The Lottery Ticket

Paul gave his mother money because he wanted to help her out. He wanted her to know that he was lucky. “I never told you, mother, that if I can ride my horse, and get there, then I'm absolutely sure - oh, absolutely! Mother, did I ever tell you? I am lucky!" said Paul to his mother. In this story Hester’s son Paul ended up being the unlucky one, he wanted to win so badly that he died trying.

It shows how frugal Vladek is when Mala makes a lot of comments about how Vladek has a lot of money saved up but never spends any of it, like not buying her a comb. The author also shows how frugal Vladek is when he refuses to spend money on necessary items. When he is an older man he becomes pretty wealthy but due to the Holocaust his mind is greatly impacted by it leaving him in the mindset of being frugal. Another example of Vladek’s frugality is when Vladek tries to return half eaten boxes of cereal.

In the fictional stories “ The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Ones Who Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin, they both convey the idea of sacrifice must be upon the suffrage of others. Both short stories portray elements of similarities and differences such as how they sacrifice, setting, and the advantages of their sacrifice.

The lottery offers a wonderful opportunity to possibly win millions of dollars. While this might seems amazing, it might not be as wonderful as imagined. In fact, maybe even the opposite might true as stated by numerous studies and research done since the 1970s.

Before I start to write this paper, I have to say that I literally like this passage “The Lottery”, because it reflects many of the problems that exist in today’s society. The passage “ Lottery ” has several visible subjects and symbols as well as some that are not easy to find them. I personally found that one of the main subjects to this article is tradition. Later on I figured out that the tone is a very significant element in the article. Shirley Jackson uses the tone in "The Lottery" is not entirely same with the subjects mentioned above. I compared with the previous articles that we have read which was “The One Who walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin, he uses a satirical tone to describe utopianism; nevertheless, let’s return to this article, Shirley Jackson uses a very light tone, but at the end of the passage, I can see that there’s a dark ending in the story.

Shirley Jackson’s twisted story, “The Lottery,” takes place in a small town with a measly population of about 300 people. In the story, Tessie Hutchinson, a well-known civilian in the town is one of the 300 people with their lives at risk when the annual Lottery is held. The lottery is a system of selecting a family, then selecting a member of that family to be killed. In this town, and probably everywhere else in the world, no one wants to be the one to die. The reason why the lottery is held is unknown, as the text has not explicitly stated a reason. A possible lesson that “The Lottery” promotes is that selfishness is human nature. Selfishness by itself can be so overpowering that it

that farming is a way of life that is handed down from generation to generation,

Moreover, Anastasia illustrates how those in the upper class can use their class as a means to meet their immaterial needs. The Grand Royal Duchess is motivated to find her long lost granddaughter because she seeks the thing that money cannot buy: love. Marx argues that money is the “external, universal means and power to change representation into reality” (Marx 272). Empress Dowager is able to use ten million rubles to represent the return of her granddaughter. By making the

Every story you'll ever read has its own kind of morals and different ways of treating characters throughout those pages. These ways these people in the stories are being treated are based on two things that we are focusing on; being preferred by others for who they are or being disapproved by everyone. By all means, humans should all be treated equally, but not everyone believes that. Each story that will be presented has a different perspective on how people see and treat others.

Each of the stories begin with a description of a beautiful summer day. “The flowers were blooming profusely and the grass was richly green"(para 1) in “The Lottery" is quite comparable to "old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees"(para 1) in "...Omelas." These descriptions (along with several others) provide positive connotations and allow the reader to relax into what seems to be a comfortable setting in either story. Both stories also contain gathering of townspeople. In "...Omelas there is music, dance, and special attire incorporated in the gathering, whereas in "The Lottery," the women show up "wearing faded house dresses and sweaters." Although Le Guinn’s environment seems more festive, all the folks in both stories are coming together for what seems to be enjoyable, even celebratory occasions. However, I believe the major similarity lies in the fact that these many pleasant details create facade within each story. The reader is then left ill-prepared when the shocking, brutally violent, ritualistic traditions are exposed.

Standing up for what is right may not always be easy. Sometimes in life we are afraid to speak up because we don’t know what the consequences will be if we do. “The Lottery” is about a town that goes through the same tradition once every year. They hold a lottery where they draw slips and whoever gets the black dot is the “winner”, but really that person gets stoned to death by everyone in the town. In the story, Tessie Hutchinson was the one to be stoned and even her family participated in doing it.

They want enough wealth to make their dreams and desires come true. By thinking they have won the wealth, makes them want to do bad things to each other. So only one can have the wealth, but instead both will have to share. Their wealth is shown as a form of a lottery ticket as when winning it Ivan is said to be doing this “Ivan Dmitritch gave a broad, senseless smile, like a baby when a bright object is shown it” (The lottery Ticket, 101). This displays how the relationship of Ivan and his wife works around this wealth. As Ivan cares, so much about the money, their relationship gets a second of a strong feeling of goodness towards this amount of money. Their relationship demonstrates wealth, when Dmitritch finds out he is going to be rich. He easily is turned into a child, expressing the love of Ivan and his wife have over wealth because of living a middle-class status for a long time. Both Anton Chekhov and William Shakespeare added the concept of wealth to these relationships because usually a man and women are happy with just each other. But in these stories, they are representing how wealth can make anyone happy at the same time destroy a relationship. Wealth is shown through women in these books, as the women introduce the concept of wealth. Which contradicts, how women do not earn a living in these stories. Wealth can be revealed by women, as they are the real wealth behind it all. Showing the reader that wealth just leads to loneliness and that females

3. What similarities and differences do these stories have in common, considering where and when they take place

Obsessed with her “unluckiness,” she neglects her children who are constantly exposed to the cold, emptiness of their mother’s heart. She is unable to love anything but the money she cannot attain. Her oldest child, Paul, forced to deal with this bitter treatment the longest, becomes obsessed with money as well, but as an attempt to win the interest of his mother. “Absorbed, taking no heed of other people, he went about with a sort of stealth, seeking inwardly for luck” (Lawrence 483). He rides into a trance on his rocking horse until he is killed by this urgency to find a winner. He wants to be “lucky” so badly. He wants to be the best, something his mother and father believed they could never be. He needs the money so that his house will stop screaming and his mother will love him.

Throughout the duration of this class, I had the opportunity to encounter a great deal of fantastic examples of literature. The stories were as similar as they were different, each one with a unique premise but somehow also reflective of one another. Perhaps it is be accident, or more likely it is because the stories are a part of the fabric of our nation and the American condition. The stories are of their respective times while also being able to fairly and accurately critique American society, culture, and values. From capitalism to America’s changing thoughts on morality throughout the decades, the writings were introspective to the story of our nation.