Theme Of Irony In A Rose For Emily And The Lottery
The stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "The Lottery" by Shirley
Jackson portray the same theme. The story "A Rose for Emily" is about a woman who was antisocial and her town found it strange. "The Lottery" was about a lottery that was held in a town that had a population of 300 people. The winner of the lottery would die in order for their God to give them a good year of crops. These stories show how people have their own thoughts that society finds unusual.
Irony occurs a various amount of occasions throughout the stories. For example, "'She will persuade him yet,' because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men" (Faulkner #). This exemplifies an example of irony because of how she tried to persuade him to be with her after she …show more content…
For example, "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones" (The lottery). This shows how they had remembered the procedure of the event; therefore they were getting ready. Society finds this unusual because people do not stuff their pockets full of stones. Another example is "The people had done it so many times they only half listened" (The lottery). This exemplifies how they knew what the rules were because they had done it a various amount that they knew the procedure. This does not go back to my theme, but it does give an example of flashback. All these examples portray flashbacks. This is an example of flashback because they knew what to do because they had done it in previous years.
The plot is a very important part in both stories. "Then the voices began to say, "It's
Hutchinson." This goes back to my thesis, because we find determining someone's death by a lottery unusual. "When she opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones: "For rats" ' (A rose for Emily). This example is important because we do not purchase arsenic for rats to kill people. As you can tell in both stories there are occasions we find unusual, but they find it perfectly
Jackson portray the same theme. The story "A Rose for Emily" is about a woman who was antisocial and her town found it strange. "The Lottery" was about a lottery that was held in a town that had a population of 300 people. The winner of the lottery would die in order for their God to give them a good year of crops. These stories show how people have their own thoughts that society finds unusual.
Irony occurs a various amount of occasions throughout the stories. For example, "'She will persuade him yet,' because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men" (Faulkner #). This exemplifies an example of irony because of how she tried to persuade him to be with her after she …show more content…
For example, "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones" (The lottery). This shows how they had remembered the procedure of the event; therefore they were getting ready. Society finds this unusual because people do not stuff their pockets full of stones. Another example is "The people had done it so many times they only half listened" (The lottery). This exemplifies how they knew what the rules were because they had done it a various amount that they knew the procedure. This does not go back to my theme, but it does give an example of flashback. All these examples portray flashbacks. This is an example of flashback because they knew what to do because they had done it in previous years.
The plot is a very important part in both stories. "Then the voices began to say, "It's
Hutchinson." This goes back to my thesis, because we find determining someone's death by a lottery unusual. "When she opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones: "For rats" ' (A rose for Emily). This example is important because we do not purchase arsenic for rats to kill people. As you can tell in both stories there are occasions we find unusual, but they find it perfectly