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“The Lottery” vs. “The Ones Who Walk Away”
“The lottery” is a story that begins describing a village. The first descriptions that took my attention were “flowers were blossoming profusely” and “the grass was richly green”. After describing the village it passes to what people are doing. It says that they are getting together for an event, which is the lottery. All the heads of the family, who were men, had to drawn for their family. This had been going since before the oldest man in the village was born. We don’t really know the reason of this lottery until we get to the part where Old Man Warner starts mocking the young people around the other villages, who had stopped doing the lottery. He says “Used to be saying about ‘Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.’ This shows that that’s their tradition of getting heavier fields with corn, and their tradition was to stone one person for everyone else to be happy.
The second story was “The ones who walk away from Omelas.” This short story, same as the first one, begins with describing, but not a village this time but a fantasy world. The narrator describes everything perfect and peaceful. It makes us, reads, to feel like we are watching this entire beautiful place. People are perfect in this city and everything is going well. The narrator takes three and a half pages explaining how wonderful this city is. But not for too long, until she starts describing a room, down in a basement. There is a child being held for the best of the city. There was a child being tortured just so everyone in that city can be happy. After people got into a certain age they would have been able to see the child. Some of there were happy because the child was already tortured and nothing would have helped him no more but some people decided to leave the city, since they were not okay for a kid to suffer for their happiness.
These were the two short stories I read and they are very similar to each other. It is important to note that the two
“The lottery” is a story that begins describing a village. The first descriptions that took my attention were “flowers were blossoming profusely” and “the grass was richly green”. After describing the village it passes to what people are doing. It says that they are getting together for an event, which is the lottery. All the heads of the family, who were men, had to drawn for their family. This had been going since before the oldest man in the village was born. We don’t really know the reason of this lottery until we get to the part where Old Man Warner starts mocking the young people around the other villages, who had stopped doing the lottery. He says “Used to be saying about ‘Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.’ This shows that that’s their tradition of getting heavier fields with corn, and their tradition was to stone one person for everyone else to be happy.
The second story was “The ones who walk away from Omelas.” This short story, same as the first one, begins with describing, but not a village this time but a fantasy world. The narrator describes everything perfect and peaceful. It makes us, reads, to feel like we are watching this entire beautiful place. People are perfect in this city and everything is going well. The narrator takes three and a half pages explaining how wonderful this city is. But not for too long, until she starts describing a room, down in a basement. There is a child being held for the best of the city. There was a child being tortured just so everyone in that city can be happy. After people got into a certain age they would have been able to see the child. Some of there were happy because the child was already tortured and nothing would have helped him no more but some people decided to leave the city, since they were not okay for a kid to suffer for their happiness.
These were the two short stories I read and they are very similar to each other. It is important to note that the two