The Rocking Horse And The Lottery

I have chosen to write about the lottery that was written by Shirley Johnson and the rocking horse that was written by D.H. Lawrence. In reading both of the short stories I have noticed that the setting was taken in two different areas/setting. The first story is “The lottery” was in the summer time (June 27th) the villages were not very big they were around 300 people in the beginning and was growing. When you first start the Lottery I though oh cool this is the lottery like what people play now days. Although as I was reading it; it was nothing like that. The lottery is about a village that gets together every year in June and they pick names of people and those people come up in front of the crowds and the drawl wood chips or pieces of …show more content…
They both seem like very sad stories. They seem to be filled with pain in these people’s hearts. They both seem to have taken place a long, long time ago. The lottery seems to have taken place in the western time frame if not farther back. The people is this story were stoned and for what I am not sure. Due to I did not find a reason for them to stone Mrs. Hutchinson’s. My understanding was she got stoned for drawling the black dot on the paper that her family drew out of the black box. The sad thing to me is that even the kids back in this time were helping do the stoning. Then you have the rocking horse and this story was more about provide. This family did not have money and lived like they did. The poor boy in this family seem to not have any body to lean on but his horse and then the poor boy lost his horse. When that happened it seems that he lost apart of himself. He told his mom that he just loved having animals around. In these two stories that I have read I have learned that people write short stories from experience of something that has happened to them. In doing so they can get feels out twerk it so that seems to not of been about