Love And Hate In The Rocking Horse

Love and Hate, whether for justice or cause can be risky and not always a positive guaranteed outcome. In a small town with less than three hundred people something unoriginal takes place, some place the definition as love while some place it as hate. In the short story of "The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson the main character we focus on is a lady by the name of Tessie, who is an unfortunate victim of "The Lottery". In "The Rocking Horse", by D.H. Lawson the main character we focus on is a boy by the name of Paul who is desperately trying to gain his mothers love by seeking the luck she tries to obtain. Paul is a overachiever who wants attention from his mother and does this in a way that defines a love and hate relationship where the outcome is risky.

Tessie is a married woman who is the free spirited type who was late for the lottery and admitting
Tessie is in a situation that will define all odds of the ritual that must take place in order for the harvest to be right. Paul is in a situation that no matter what he does he can not gain his mothers affection. Both Tessie and Paul are unlucky and their ultimate fate will be the same.

At first glance both Tessie and Paul have a goal and have admiration for that goal. In "The Rocking Horse" the story is already set to be some what is defined as a cold short story who the boy seems to have a unforeseen visions. In "The Lottery" the story shows warmth, compassion and strength about a little town. By taking a closer look at both stories they share symbolization and fear. A few cohesions are deepen by human spirt in the stories and make an obsolescent apparent movement is human nature predictable.

Paul makes a winning bet that horse that brings his family quite a sum of money, however; he falls off the horse and goes into a semiconscious state and eventually dies. Tessie is brought into a circle and stoned to death