The Lottery Vs Charles Short Story

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” both tell stories using literary techniques of tone, symbolism, and irony that help to convey stories that leave the reader baffled by their ending. Although Hawthorne and Jackson utilize these literary techniques in a different way, both of the stories end with a sense of darkness.

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

Harrison Bergeron is a story where the government tries to make everyone equal by handicapping them. You wear a mask if you are pretty, you lug around a heavy back if you are tall and strong, and you have timed beats to distract your brain if you are smart. One person named Harrison tried to rebel, but he got killed. The Lottery is about how every people draw from a black box and if they get a certain ticket they get stoned. Although the two stories have many similarities in conflict they have very different conflict as well. They are generally similar because they both have someone attempting to deny or rebel against society or government and they both get are unsuccessful and killed in the end. They are generally different because one actually does something that most of society wants while one just doesn’t want accept it and society doesn’t care.

The authors Shirley Jackson, and Nathaniel Hawthrone in "The Lottery" and "The Young Goodman Brown" both revel that different elements such as tone and setting

In “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” by D. H. Lawrence, and “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, the two authors illustrate symbols and themes throughout their stories in which one common idea is present: perhaps winning is not always positive.

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

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence portray how people can act in atrocious ways when impacted by society. In both of these short stories there is an untimely death of one of the characters. The difference between the deaths is the emotional relation with the characters. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast these two pieces of literature through the similarities and differences in the settings, characters, theme, and plot.

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

“The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence is an unpredictable, fairytale-like short story about a mother of three who constantly worries about her financial problems. She has a son who is fervent about figuring out a solution to her predicament. This story also has an abrupt ending that gives off strong emotion. Another short story, called “The Lottery”, has the same spectacle of ending the story with suspense. Written by Shirley Jackson, this story begins with a sunny day in a village, but miserably ends with the stoning of one of the villagers. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and “The Lottery” are two sensational stories that have tragic ironies; however, they differ in tone

To begin, the two stories parallel in the government ruling and corresponding atmosphere. Both stories have an authoritarian government in place with a strong set of rules regulated by methods of control and propaganda. Within ‘The Lottery’ for example, the governing body established an annual randomized public execution under the guise of it being a sacrifice for the crops. This is blindly accepted and followed by the towns people as they feel bound to the tradition. This is evident for example in the following exchange; Mr. Adams says, "…that over in the north village they're talking of giving up the lottery." Old Man Warner responds, "Pack of crazy fools. Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them…Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.'…There's always been a lottery.” (Jackson 4) Unlike the public control in ‘Harrison Bergeron’, this method of control is not reinforced by any governing body and is simply accepted as fact based on the words and experiences of past generations. Within ‘Harrison Bergeron’, the United States government executed three additional forms of constitution to enforce equality and the methods in which to enforce it. Handicaps and a strict structure keeps society bound to a false sense of equality to effectively suppress and regulate the people of the United States. This is accepted by all regardless of position in society as the system in itself does not allow the option of choice on the matter. It is made clear handicaps are effective tools to stop revolution, as in the following excerpt the narrator explains the attributed nature of Georges and Hazel’s lack of ability to ponder their son’s abduction; “it was [April] that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s son, Harrison, away… George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had

some of the events throughout the story. Symbolism in "The lottery" is mainly represented by the

B. In “The Lottery vs. The Rocking-Horse Winner” we are analyzing the similarities and differences in setting from a fictional viewpoint between these two short stories.

Starting off, the pair of short stories had significant changes occur. “The Lottery in Babylon” began with a small sweepstake, in which you traded in “copper coins, squares of bone or parchment” in exchange for the opportunity to win “silver coins” (31). Eventually, these rewards and entries would be non-existent and a thing of the past. Similarly, Funes, turns from a seemingly normal teen, into someone who has an unhuman-like memory. Originally, people in Babylon were intrigued by the idea of a potential gain, and didn’t care much about the risk. However, part of the population soon got bored, and wanted to increase the risk by introducing unfavorable tickets. “The Company” emerged and became the driving force behind these lotteries. Those who didn’t take part or lost in the lotteries “were scorned” (31) and looked down upon. Change occurred once again, as the poor people wanted a part in the action. This signifies how humans all want to be included, and how no wants to feel left out. Over time, the lottery was made

The differences between “The Lottery” and “Hills like White Elephants” are social structure in which they live. The people in “The Lottery” are traditional townsfolk. They are depicted as having traditional values. They have families