The Hunger Games and the Lottery in their respective worlds serve the same purpose: to oppress and control the lower class of each society. This is seen largely in three similarities between the works; both involve the murder of someone from the lower class in the event, both require their citizens to be casual about the event, and both are protected tradition. To summarize the Hunger Ganes and the Lottery severe a simar puporse in each world.
Onee simularity the events have are that death is at the core of what they are and do. In the hunger games people from the poorer provinces are randomly chosen to fight in an anrena to the death, only leaving one suriver per year out of the 24 chosen in the games. Ina simlar fashion, the lottery randomly choses a person to be stoned to death, but is rigided to where the bussiness owners are never picked. In both suitation at least one person has to die in the affiar. This is done to scarce the people straight, to make them fear the establishment because the establishment is not only ecomnically dangerous, but physically aswell. …show more content…
The Lottery shows this in how thoughout the chosn process people tried to make what was happening less tense by laughing and exchangeing gossosip, and in the way the kids casually gather or thorw stones for the stoning. In the Hunger Games you can see this exceptation in the dress code of the chosing cermony. Each group does this because, as stated before, each event is a tool for opresssing the common people. This means when the tool becomes normal so does what the tool does, assuring people know that it is the natural order of things or that it is impossible to
Onee simularity the events have are that death is at the core of what they are and do. In the hunger games people from the poorer provinces are randomly chosen to fight in an anrena to the death, only leaving one suriver per year out of the 24 chosen in the games. Ina simlar fashion, the lottery randomly choses a person to be stoned to death, but is rigided to where the bussiness owners are never picked. In both suitation at least one person has to die in the affiar. This is done to scarce the people straight, to make them fear the establishment because the establishment is not only ecomnically dangerous, but physically aswell. …show more content…
The Lottery shows this in how thoughout the chosn process people tried to make what was happening less tense by laughing and exchangeing gossosip, and in the way the kids casually gather or thorw stones for the stoning. In the Hunger Games you can see this exceptation in the dress code of the chosing cermony. Each group does this because, as stated before, each event is a tool for opresssing the common people. This means when the tool becomes normal so does what the tool does, assuring people know that it is the natural order of things or that it is impossible to