Comparing The Lottery 'And The Necklace'

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a story about a boy named Jonas. Jonas is Picked to be the one person who bears the memories of the past. In the short story “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, a modest town with no more than 300 citizens, takes part in a lottery that none of the inhabitants enjoy. There is a common theme between The Giver and, “The Lottery”. The theme is, that superstition and tradition are not always in the right. As well as sometimes tradition needs to be fought against. Through the use of word choice and, character actions. This theme was proven.

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.

Is a plot twist a crucial point of a story? The sound of thunder is about a man named Echo who went back in time to kill a dinosaur with a man named Travis and they end up messing up the future. The Lottery is about people who draw cards and if you draw the wrong card the townspeople throw rocks at you . Shirley Jackson the author of “The Lottery”and Ray Bradbury the author of “The Sound of Thunder” use the structures of the text, manipulates the pacing, and builds suspense throughout the story to created similar and different structure of surprise. The literary elements that will be analysed is how both arthur structured there text differently, how they both had different pacing throughout the story, and how they both build suspense in the story differently.

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When taking English Composition 2 I have learned various things that I can carry through with me throughout the rest of my academic and social life. The class English Composition 2 touched on the components of character, setting, short story, drama, and poetry. With each section and a lecture on each section I have taken away a piece away from each section, one thing that is for sure I will never read literature the same after this class. When talking about character we looked into the story Gorilla My Love and how the story is told through the eyes of a young black girl named Hazel. Concluding from this section of the class I learned that if the characters were to be different characters the story would change as whole. When looking deeper into the concept of setting as a class we had the opportunity to learn how to depict where the setting is, and learn how the setting can make a difference in any type of literature. For the concept of short stories as a student I looked deeper into the story of 20/20. After, a struggle on the topic of short stories I learned the different compontes that go into and are used in making a short story. For an example, the story 20/20 uses the model Freytag’s Pyramid to tell the story line. The component of Drama happened to be my favorite component of the class. I

Summary- Adam and Eve bear two children, Cain and Able. Cain is in charge of tilling the ground and Abel is in charge of herding the sheep. They both sacrifice part of their work to God; Cain presenting God the fruit of the ground and Abel the fat sheep of his herd. The Lord favored Abel's offering over Cain and as a result of that, Cain grew very contemptuous and resentful of his brother. Cain murders Abel and the Lord punishes him by banishing him, condemning him to a life of wandering, and the inability to harvest crops.

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.

The shabby black box symbolizes the deterioration of ritual itself. The original of the box loses long time ago, and no one is sure that the black present box actually makes from the original box’s pieces. This proves the ritual also loses and nobody in the village knows the real meaning of the ritual they are practicing every year. The villagers do not care about the box’s appearance; the color fades, and they put the box all in different places. The townspeople seem to take pride in the ritual of the lottery but the box that represents the ritual is not respected. They do not even think of replacing it. There is no good and logical reason for them to keep holding the lottery because the lottery itself has lost the meaning long time ago, and the only thing left is cruelty. In one of the paragraphs, the narrator tells how the townspeople talk about the official of the lottery, “some people believed that the official of the lottery used to stand just so when he said or sang it, others believed that he was supposed to walk among the people, but years and years ago this part of the ritual had been allowed to lapse. There had been, also, a ritual salute, which the official of the lottery had had to use in addressing each person who came up to draw from the box, but this also had changed with time, until now it was felt necessary only for the official to speak to each person approaching” (257). The lottery really changed with time. The townspeople changed few things because they believe those things are no longer necessary and needed. However, the brutal ritual is the one they should discard but they keep holding it. In another paragraph, the narrator says, “Because so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded, Mr. Summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that had been used for generation” (256-257). The story’s third person point of view is successful proving that although lots of the rituals, songs, salute, the black box and wood chips of the lottery have been changed, forgotten or discarded over times, the townspeople still hold the cruel ritual firmly without logical reason. They have no idea what rules they should follow and which should be discarded. This

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a short story based on a fictional village that holds a macabre ritual. Although the regularity was not stated within the tale, the story speaks of a regular gathering of the village folk to conduct some form of lottery. In a disturbing twist of the tale, the winner of the lottery doesn’t get to receive a prize, but instead, suffer the indignity of being killed by getting stoned to death by friends, family, and neighbors. Mrs. Hutchinson is the unfortunate soul, who, despite her pleas and protests has no option but accept her fate. In a similarly titled story, The Lottery by Chris Abani talks about an incident he witnessed when he went to the market with his aunt. In the story, Abani explains how he

Shirley Jackson wrote the story “The Lottery” back in 1948 to show us how ridiculous it could be to blindly follow certain traditions. In this story the author uses symbolisms to warn and prepare the reader about the gruesome ending of the lottery. There are a lot of symbols in the story and the main are the items, the lottery and the character names.

Why are so many violent criminals walking free while so many non-violent offenders are locked up? Although various aspects have fueled this inequity of justice, the factors that have contributed the most to this development are, undoubtedly, the War on Drugs and mandatory minimum sentencing laws which have led to punishment disproportionate to the offense.

All around the world today thousands of people die from murder and the numbers increase every year. Our world is filled with violence and tragedies that keep increasing, just like in, Shirley Jackson's story “The Lottery.” The characters in a small village choose someone to stone to death each year because of tradition. As this tradition continues, more and more people die as time passes. All of the towns folk grow more and more nervous, hoping not to get picked. They gather in the town square to choose the person who is killed in this unfortunate event as you meet characters like the hutchinsons, Mr. Graves, and Mr. Summers as they go through the fear of being picked. As the children pile up stones that they use for the killing. All

After reading the stories in this class and reading the Literary Analysis guidelines along with reflecting, I choose “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson as my short analysis story. I have chosen Guy de Maupassant’s short story The Necklace and Shirley Jackson The Lottery because it is easy to understand and I enjoyed a lot while reading it. Both story have a good flow and several characters to write. I want to write analysis about this story because I am familiar with both story. Both story “The Necklace” and “The Lottery is very interesting. The story “The Necklace” teach us important of our responsibility as

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.

Through the narrator’s thoughts on being back in war and performing valorous acts for medals, it is revealed that he is an idealistic person. Unlike the Italian soldiers – forced into war because their country was invaded – we know the narrator, an American, must have had an idealistic preconception of war since he volunteered to participate. This preconception might be that he can be a hero through brave acts on the battlefield, and receive ribbons to memorialize that heroism. Later after returning from the war, the narrator still imagined himself doing all the brave acts the Italian soldiers did to receive their medals. However, we know the narrator’s ideals are challenged because he was haunted by horrible war memories, afraid to return to the frontlines, and realized the ribbon he finally received was just an accident – chance is more