In dystopian worlds “The Lottery” and the “Tell-Tale Heart” the authors use their writing style to shock the reader. They use tricky tactics, rich writing style, and irony to keep the reader engrossed to the story. Both authors differ in their approaches to writing style, while using the similar techniques.
In both stories the authors starts with an ironic title as “Tell-Tale-Heart” either “The Lottery” which tricks the reader to expect something different. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator says, “Villains” I shrieked, “dissemble me no more! I admit the deed!-tear up the planks!-here, here!-it is the beating of his hideous heart!” (156). This is when the narrator admits the murder to the old man. In “The Lottery” Tessie says. “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and they were upon her. (5). And this was when Ms. Hutchinson gets stoned to death. The quotes show similarities because first the both stories starts with an ironic title. In “Tell-Tale …show more content…
“They stood together away from the piles of the stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed” “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and they were upon her. (The lottery P.5) This is when Ms. Hutchinson gets stoned to death. “True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will you say that I am mad?” (Tell-Tale Heart) This was the feeling of the old man of his eye at the beginning of the story. Both stories start in different ways. In the Tell Tale Heart, Poe gives a hint of the narrator's feeling about the old man and logically the narrator ended up killing him However, The Lottery starts with the kids playing with stones and telling jokes but Jackson uses a different technique that in a peaceful countryside there is a lottery game that happens every year where the reader is shocked to find out, at the end of the story, the the winner gets
In both stories the authors starts with an ironic title as “Tell-Tale-Heart” either “The Lottery” which tricks the reader to expect something different. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator says, “Villains” I shrieked, “dissemble me no more! I admit the deed!-tear up the planks!-here, here!-it is the beating of his hideous heart!” (156). This is when the narrator admits the murder to the old man. In “The Lottery” Tessie says. “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and they were upon her. (5). And this was when Ms. Hutchinson gets stoned to death. The quotes show similarities because first the both stories starts with an ironic title. In “Tell-Tale …show more content…
“They stood together away from the piles of the stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed” “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and they were upon her. (The lottery P.5) This is when Ms. Hutchinson gets stoned to death. “True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will you say that I am mad?” (Tell-Tale Heart) This was the feeling of the old man of his eye at the beginning of the story. Both stories start in different ways. In the Tell Tale Heart, Poe gives a hint of the narrator's feeling about the old man and logically the narrator ended up killing him However, The Lottery starts with the kids playing with stones and telling jokes but Jackson uses a different technique that in a peaceful countryside there is a lottery game that happens every year where the reader is shocked to find out, at the end of the story, the the winner gets