The Lottery By Shirley Jackson Analysis

The major difference between the two pieces is the narrative through which it is told. In "The Lottery", the narrator is omniscient, portraying events in an almost fairy-tale like way – comprehendible, but lacking verisimilitude. The viewpoint in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" involves the reader, questioning the stories believability and challenges the reader to become aware of their own susceptibilities and doubts. After doing so, the narrator presents a blatant, jarring view of the city that is contrary to the prior description, which was surreal and bubbly. The reader becomes involved in the story and is immediately encouraged to draw conclusions and make judgments based on the events of the town. Le Guin's description of the town is vague enough to allow the reader to personalize it, to live it and, inevitably, become moved by it, whereas "The Lottery" is

Do you think that “standing up for what’s right may not always the easiest path” could be a theme for both “The Lottery” and “First They Came”? Well, if you want to find out stick around and you’ll see how they’re different and how they’re alike. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is about a small town about 300 people that every year they do this tradition. There’s a black box and slips of paper. If you get the paper with the dot on it, then you win the lottery. If you “win” the lottery then your get your win death by getting stoned to death. “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller is about when Hitler and the Nazis came for the Jews and the Socialists and the other people, and Martin didn’t stand up for them and then when he got taken nobody

The two stories, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, and “First They Came,” by Martin Niemoller, are very different. But both address the theme, standing up for what’s right may not always be the easiest path. The story, “The Lottery,” is a short story about a village with about 300 people in it. Every year, the village holds a lottery. This lottery ends in someone’s life being ended by family, friends, and the rest of the villagers. Their death is because of a simple black dot on a slip of paper. The story, “First They Came,” is a nonfiction poem about someone watching as groups of people get taken away, until finally, they came for him. These groups include Socialists, Trade Unionists, and Jews, and then there is the main character. In his own group, all on his own. Even though these are very different stories, they still do have some of the same themes.

The two texts that are about justice and indifference happen at different times, different places, with different people, but are the same in many ways. The reason this is, is because these story’s relate to what the story means, what I mean by this is that both texts involve traumatic experiences. In the lottery by “Shirley Jackson” a women named Tessie (Mrs. Hutchinson). She won the lottery, the irony is that she won but she didn’t win any money, no, she got stoned to death by her neighbors and family. In the poem by martin Niemoller “First they came” this poem is about how Martin Niemoller was a german-nazi. He was most famous for the poem that he wrote. He used to be a supporter of Hitler and he was put into concentration camps but

The first of the two stories I chose to compare and contrast is titled “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and the second story is titled “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence. I will compare each of their themes, characters, and plot developments in which they are both similar and different. One of the strongest comparison would be that both stories deal with the subject of luck in one sense or another. The Lottery being considered a game of chance in which luck plays an important factor in being the chosen winner but Luck in the Lottery has a different twist of fate because the winner of the Lottery is actually the

Shirley Jackson the writer of both short stories put many similarities throughout both stories but there are three major similarities. One major similarity is the dialogue. Both stories have dialogue and they are told by a person who gets the bad end of the story. Another reason for why “The Lottery” has dialogue is so it can tell what the community is like. “Charles” has dialogue to try to give hints to “Charles” identity. Another similarity is foreshadowing. In “The Lottery” the foreshadowing was the stack of rocks that the kids piled in the very beginning of the story. In “Charles” the foreshadowing was a quick sentence told by Laurie the little boy, “Hi pop, y’old dust mop.” This was the same attitude as “Charles”. The final similarity is how both stories have plot twists. In “The Lottery” it is not the kind of lottery where you win money this lottery is if you win you get sacrificed to the corn gods. In “Charles” you believe that Charles is the cause of all the trouble, but Laurie is the real trouble

Both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller have a theme of following the crowd can have disastrous consequences, but they do it in different ways. The short story “The Lottery” is a story about a small village on a nice and sunny day. Once every year they hold a lottery by drawing names out of a black box. Whoever “wins” the lottery is then stoned to death. In the poem “First They Came” the author speaks about his own experiences in concentration camps. He says how they came for certain groups of people then for him. Both of the text deal with disastrous consequences by following the crowd, however they are done is different ways.

In this semester, we’ve read “The Lottery” and “Harrison Bergeron” from the textbook. They are two short stories; “The Lottery” was written by Shirley Jackson, and “Harrison Bergeron” was written by Kurt Vonnegut. This essay is to compare the similarities and differences between them.

The two stories are both centered on a particular person in the story. “The Lottery” was centered round Tessie Hutchinsen who happened to be the unlucky one to have picked the

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.

In the first place, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson conveys, “Standing up for what’s right may not always be the easiest path,” differently from “First They Came.” In paragraph 77, Mrs. Hutchinson said “it isn’t fair”, that she won the Lottery and she had to have stones at her head. Some of the villagers didn’t want Mrs. Hutchinson to die but they had to go along with the crowd or he or she would die, in paragraph 78. Also in paragraph 76 it says that “someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles”, Little Davy had to throw stones at her own mom even though he didn’t want to hurt her.

These passages are all different, they all talk about similar topics, such as acceptance. In the story, “The Lottery,” is about how is we just have to accept things no matter how bad you want to change it. You have to grow up and accept whatever life throws at you because you can't change it. The tone is sympathetic. The author felt sympathy for the character who didn't accept the final results of the lottery winning. So they did it over again and the results came

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a short fictional story that was published in 1948 and was in the magazine The New Yorker. The setting of the story is a small nice little village with green grass and flowers everywhere.The village was a farming village that mostly supported agriculture. The main characters are Joe Summers, Mr. Graves, and the Hutchison family. The conflict of the story was man versus tradition of the lottery. The lottery had little slips of paper that Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves made and one that had a black dot on it. The “winner” is the person with the black dot. The winner has his family draw again to see who is the real “winner”. When drawing, the heads of the households get to draw for the family and can’t look at the slips until everyone is done drawing. Most villages are giving it up. The oldest man in village says, “lottery in June, corn be heavy soon”, as that after the lottery is done crops grow better. When it was done Hutchinson got the “lucky” card and his wife Tessie was making a big deal about it, “it wasn’t fair’’ she said and, “they should redo the lottery, she thought.”Bill Hutchison tells Tessie to shut up and Mr. Graves starts setting up for the last round. Graves took the black dot piece of

“The Lottery”, in comparison to “The hunger games, are the same in some ways; but in

The theme of “The Lottery” By Shirley Jackson and “First They Came” By Martin Niemoller standing up for what is right may not always be the easiest path. The theme means it can be hard to stand up for what you think is right and a lot of times people are afraid of what people think. ‘The lottery’ is about an event every year during the summer that everyone in the village gathers for this event, The husbands of each family draws out of the black box and whoever gets the black dot gets stoned. ‘First they came’ is about that if you don’t have anyone who stands ups for you no one will speak up for you. Both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller deals with standing up for what you believe in is not always the easiest path, but they do so in different ways.