The Lottery by Shirley Jackson takes place on June 27th where the villagers are all about to gather around the town square for the lottery. There are children playing, gathering rocks and putting them into a pile. The village consisted of around three-hundred people in this village compared to other villages this one was a lot smaller because it only took this village about a couple of hours to do while others it can take up to days. While the children were the first ones at the square others quickly flowed in. Families are all to stand by each other, while Mr. Summers sits in the middle of the square with a mysterious black box. The box holds names of the villagers and is soon someone will receive the black dot, which means that they will
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There both boxes essentially that have something in them nobody wants anything to do with. The list of the names in the lottery and then also the child that lays inside the cellar. No one wants to be the one to draw the dot that kills them and no one wants to really have anything to do with the child. Just because some people left there were others that did not care about the child being there. According to Shirley Jackson “ seems like there’s no time at all between lotteries any more”….. “ Seems like we got through with the last one only last week.” (The lottery pg.3) With this statement you can take it either way as in a positive way or in negative way. Almost this saying is like do you see the glass half empty or half full? The positive way would be a year has already gone by. Everyone is a year older than the last lottery and they already know what’s about to happen. There are more negative sides to this because that means like wow someone has to die it feels like we just did this last week. They feel like someone was just taken from them a week ago and there not ready for another to leave so quick. This relates to The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by people really have no since in the meaning of time. In this story it has a negative effect because the child is still down there a year later and is still malnourished. Nothing is helping him by all the time or years that go …show more content…
Selfishness is a huge role in both of these stories because most everyone does whatever is going to benefit themselves an or the happiness of others. In The Lottery they are all so selfish in not changing the tradition that they do not care that someone’s lives at stake. They are being selfish and doing what is good for the village. But how could killing someone be benefit the village? How could so many be ok with killing someone? The outcome of the village should be based on all the villagers that a simply apart of the village and how they all can bring something different to the table than someone else. According to Le Guin “One of them may come and kick the child to make it stand up.” ( The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas pg.3) Now that is the most selfish thing again because as people come down and see the child they are abusing him to make themselves feel better about there own lives. The child probably looks at how they are dressed and what they look like and thinks why can I not be apart of that why am I stuck down here. That’s a really selfish thing for people to go down there and just harass the child and make it feel even worse than what it already
There both boxes essentially that have something in them nobody wants anything to do with. The list of the names in the lottery and then also the child that lays inside the cellar. No one wants to be the one to draw the dot that kills them and no one wants to really have anything to do with the child. Just because some people left there were others that did not care about the child being there. According to Shirley Jackson “ seems like there’s no time at all between lotteries any more”….. “ Seems like we got through with the last one only last week.” (The lottery pg.3) With this statement you can take it either way as in a positive way or in negative way. Almost this saying is like do you see the glass half empty or half full? The positive way would be a year has already gone by. Everyone is a year older than the last lottery and they already know what’s about to happen. There are more negative sides to this because that means like wow someone has to die it feels like we just did this last week. They feel like someone was just taken from them a week ago and there not ready for another to leave so quick. This relates to The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by people really have no since in the meaning of time. In this story it has a negative effect because the child is still down there a year later and is still malnourished. Nothing is helping him by all the time or years that go …show more content…
Selfishness is a huge role in both of these stories because most everyone does whatever is going to benefit themselves an or the happiness of others. In The Lottery they are all so selfish in not changing the tradition that they do not care that someone’s lives at stake. They are being selfish and doing what is good for the village. But how could killing someone be benefit the village? How could so many be ok with killing someone? The outcome of the village should be based on all the villagers that a simply apart of the village and how they all can bring something different to the table than someone else. According to Le Guin “One of them may come and kick the child to make it stand up.” ( The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas pg.3) Now that is the most selfish thing again because as people come down and see the child they are abusing him to make themselves feel better about there own lives. The child probably looks at how they are dressed and what they look like and thinks why can I not be apart of that why am I stuck down here. That’s a really selfish thing for people to go down there and just harass the child and make it feel even worse than what it already