Similarities Between The Veldt And The Lottery

“The Veldt” and “The Lottery” have some things in common. However, there are only a few major similarities that I have noted in both stories that show up many times. These stories were both written on or before 1950, right after World War 2. Knowing that they were predicting the future after that horrendous war, they seemed to be very biased in their opinion of our today. Both stories bring a gothic feel to them as someone dies in both of them for some reason that benefits someone else in the story. In “The Veldt”, there are futuristic houses that help humans with everything and they never really fail. However, the main characters (George, Lydia, Peter, and Wendy Hadley) are too spoiled to look at life like it really is and let the house do everything for them. There is one room that malfunctions: the nursery, which takes George and Lydia to a veldt in Africa where they almost get devoured by lions. They know that the house does what they want, so they infer that the nursery does what the kids want, as mentioned in this quote,” It won't respond. Or it can’t respond," said Lydia, "because the …show more content…
They would tear it down due to McClean’s advice to do so, but the kids are allowed to go inside one last time after pleading. However, the kids locked it from the outside and McClean was with them, but they took too long and George and Lydia came in, only to come in and let the kids have the opportunity to kill them by thinking of lions. This quote shows the gothic element of the story through the kids’ eyes: “"Where are your father and mother? The children looked up and smiled. "Oh, they'll be here directly." At a distance Mr. McClean saw the lions fighting and clawing and then quieting down to feed in silence under the shady trees… Now the lions were done