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The Lottery
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The Lottery
English Essay
Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery" and Ursula K. LeGuin’s "The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas" are two very similar stories. Both stories leave the reader’s stomach in a knot and end with an unexpected ironic twist. These two stories resemble each other in several different ways.
Both stories involve a scapegoat. In each story, the community sacrifices one person in order to gain something for the community as a whole. In "The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas," one child must be tortured for his entire life so that the rest of the community may enjoy a Utopian society. Similarly, in "The Lottery" the community chooses one person each year to be stoned so that the season’s crops will be plentiful.
Another similarity is that in both stories the people of the community turn their heads and wash their hands of the responsibility for the termination of these cruel rituals. In "The Lottery," no one does anything to stop the heartless tradition of stoning, despite its horrific nature. In fact, many members of the community treat the period of gathering before the actual stoning as a social event. In " The Ones Who Leave Omelas," people watch the disgusting spectacle of a young child being tortured all his life and say nothing.
In both stories, the communities fear change. Both communities must know th...Read entire document
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