Similarities Between The Hunger Games And The Lottery

The Hunger Games and “The Lottery” are two different stories that have similarities. Based on story lines of both they might have more similarities than differences. “The Lottery” mainly talk about that a citizen of their village is sacrificed each year and the citizen is killed by stone. Comparably, in The Hunger Games, 24 citizens are chosen to fight to the death to leave only one citizen to survive. This paper will focus on similarities between these two stories: blindly following tradition, using tradition to control people and prevent change, and using ritual as entertainment First, blindly following tradition is the common feature that both The Hunger Games and “ The Lottery” have. The characters in these two stories never doubt about traditions and change them. In “The Lottery”, every year one of the citizens in the village is stoned to death by the lottery. Everyone comes to the square to participate, which looks like a routine. Mr. Summers says “Well now, guess we …show more content…
In “ The Lottery”, the lottery is compared to other entertaining events in the town. Mr. Summers, who had ability to handle civic activities, managed the lottery as the square dances, the teen-age club, the Halloween program. (Jackson). It’s weird that a murder is categorized with entertaining events that are like Halloween and square dance. In the same manner, in The Hunger Games, the government and even other civilians of Panem have an optimistic attitude towards the game that kills 23 innocent people. They treat the games as a celebrated sporting event and a highly anticipated source of entertainment and pastime.Even some citizens are sponsors to the tributes, which paying money for supplies. The more blood and fighting in the games, the better entertainment for the Capitol has. Therefore, both of the stories are counted as events that provide