Compare And Contrast The Lottery And The Hunger Games

Some books are different but they can also be very similar. The book “The Lottery” wrote by Shirley Jackson is about a rural farming community that is forced to have a drawing every year to choose who is stoned to death as a sacrifice to bay for the other villagers sins. The book “The Hunger Games” wrote by Suzanne Collins is about twelve different districts have an annual reaping every year. One boy and one girl are chosen from each district and all twenty-four people go head to head in a battle to the death. At the end of the reaping there is only one victor left to be crowned but this year was different because the main protagonist made them change the rules to where there are two victors if they are from the same district and are they only two left alive. The book “The Lottery” and the book “The Hunger Games” are similar because in both books an innocent person is being murdered for their people. But these two books are also different because in “The Hunger Games” the competitors in games could gain sponsors to send them stuff to help them out on the battlefield to keep them from dying. In “The …show more content…
The book “The Lottery” and the book “The Hunger Games” have several similarities in the way that every year innocent people get murdered. But they have many differences at the same time in the way that in “The Lottery” once someone has drawn that card with the black dot they are sentenced to be stoned by their fellow villagers with no help to stay alive, yet in “The Hunger Games” during the games the sponsors that someone has gained are able to send thing out to them on the battlefield to help keep them alive. Both of these authors have set the facts that nobody has to go to horrible measures just to stay alive but at the same time anything can happen