When examining the author’s views on violence in the short stories, The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, I found that both author’s expressed violence in a casual way. No one speaks up in either story saying what is happening is wrong. While both The Use of Force and The Lottery explore the themes of violence, The Lottery is more concerned with the town or community’s social perspective whereas The Use of Force focuses on the ethics and morals of one particular person. In The Use of Force, a male doctor is called to the home of a sickly young girl. An illness known as diphtheria is going around, and the girl has come down with a cold and a fever and won’t allow her parents to check her throat.
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It is in third person point of view. The setting takes place in a small village, made up of about 300 people. On June 27th of every year, the town members partake a traditional, community held, ritual titled the lottery. Everyone in the village is expected to participate, no matter how young or how old. During the story the reader isn’t sure what the lottery is about, if it’s a good thing or a bad thing. It is not until the end of the story that you find out what the lottery is really about. The entire community get together and circle around a man named Mr. Summers. He has a black box filled with individual slips of white paper that the village people will draw from when their name is called. Whoever draws the slip of paper with the black dot on it wins. While the drawing is happening the oldest man in town starts mumbling about how people would be crazy fools to ever stop the lottery because of the old saying “Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon” and how there has “always been a lottery.” The family who wins the lottery is the Hutchinson’s. It’s not until now that you realize the lottery is going to have an awful outcome. The mother of the family, Tessie, begins panicking, declaring how it wasn’t fair. The Hutchinson family now has to pull from the black box once again and see which family member gets the black dot. Ironically, Tessie gets the black dotted paper. With no hesitation, the town member begin picking up rocks and stones and hurling them at Tessie. They stone her to death out of barbarous traditions. Perhaps this story tests humanity’s ability to handle evil within a modern American and accustomed setting. Or the dark side of human nature and the endangerment of ritualized
It is in third person point of view. The setting takes place in a small village, made up of about 300 people. On June 27th of every year, the town members partake a traditional, community held, ritual titled the lottery. Everyone in the village is expected to participate, no matter how young or how old. During the story the reader isn’t sure what the lottery is about, if it’s a good thing or a bad thing. It is not until the end of the story that you find out what the lottery is really about. The entire community get together and circle around a man named Mr. Summers. He has a black box filled with individual slips of white paper that the village people will draw from when their name is called. Whoever draws the slip of paper with the black dot on it wins. While the drawing is happening the oldest man in town starts mumbling about how people would be crazy fools to ever stop the lottery because of the old saying “Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon” and how there has “always been a lottery.” The family who wins the lottery is the Hutchinson’s. It’s not until now that you realize the lottery is going to have an awful outcome. The mother of the family, Tessie, begins panicking, declaring how it wasn’t fair. The Hutchinson family now has to pull from the black box once again and see which family member gets the black dot. Ironically, Tessie gets the black dotted paper. With no hesitation, the town member begin picking up rocks and stones and hurling them at Tessie. They stone her to death out of barbarous traditions. Perhaps this story tests humanity’s ability to handle evil within a modern American and accustomed setting. Or the dark side of human nature and the endangerment of ritualized