The Consequences Of Evil In The Lottery, By Shirley Jackson

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In the story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, it is demonstrated how easily modern day people accept horrific things if the idea is culturally accepted. In this story the author demonstrates how easily people can be influenced to do evil if it is culturally accepted by continuing a ritual that had been practiced by the townspeople for many years. In the set of 1950’s modern day era in a New England small town, the story shows the life of people, in order to survive, one person each year was required to be put to death for the overall benefit of the community. In the real 1950’s, America was not trying to rely on a ritual to help them survive. During that time, America’s economy was steadily improving. America also was fighting the “cold …show more content…
Summer seem too similar in that they both torture and take people through misery. Mr. Summer was to conduct and give instructions on what was taking place. Mr. Graves, along with Mr. Summer wanted to make sure this lottery continued as a tradition. Jackson states, “Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but not one liked to upset even as much as was represented by the black box” (Jackson, par. 5). Hitler wanted to keep the idea of his people “pure” and this forced him to kill 6 million Jews. (History.com) Hitler was very persistent with his commands on what to do with the Jews, and Mr. Summers was very adamant to keep the stoning tradition going as it does every year.(History.com) Mr. Summers wanted the tradition to continue so the town and the people could continue to prosper. Hitler wanted his ethnicity to continue to spread, and become the superior race. (History.com) Hitler and Mr. Summer are two very alike people who wanted to rule over their community and make, in their minds, the …show more content…
The Lottery had very similar characteristics to The Hunger Games. For example, they both had a drawing of sorts to select who was to participate and neither would allow arguing with the headmaster of the event. In the story, the town gathered to test their luck and to see if they were going to survive for another year. By contrast, in The Hunger Games, the person who was chosen usually fought to not participate. The weaker ones or the most favored ones were generally selected. Typically after the selection was made, the stronger, bolder people would fight to take the weaker one’s place or to go in another’s stead, such as a family member. When Tessie Hutchinson got selected, she began to argue with the crowd to try to save her life. In the story, The Hunger Games, they were selected to fight for their district to pay retribution for their last uprising from the capital. They are forced to sacrifice their children; the purpose was to demoralize the

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