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Compare And Contrast Button Button And The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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For my two stories, I chose Button, Button by Richard Matheson, and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. I chose these two stories because they both have characters who have to make big choices that will affect them in many different ways. In ways that can make them lose loved ones and family. Also in ways like sadness, happiness, overthinking, and many other feelings. In the story Button, Button, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur is presented with a package, in that package is a button. Later they find out by Mr. Steward that the button will grant them $50,000 dollars, but someone they don’t know will die. Mrs. and Mr. Arthur argue back and forth about the button and then Mrs. Steward gets too curious and pushes the button. Then Mr Steward will come and give the news …show more content…

Steward has to make a choice to push the button or not, her choice will affect someone she doesn’t know and she will be granted $50,000. She makes the choice of pressing the button and she loses her husband. This choice affects her by making her think deeply about her husband and how she didn’t know him according to the button and Mr. Steward, it also makes her upset because she loses her husband because she chooses money over life. This story and the choices she made show how this world has fallen to greed and money over love and family and it's a devastating fact, but it is a true one. In the story The Lottery, in a small town where there are only about three hundred people, there's a lottery that takes place every year on June 27th. Everyone in town gets up early and starts preparing for the lottery. The lottery is a box that gets passed around the town all day that is full of paper slips and the one with the black dot. Whoever pulls the slip with the black dot will “win” the lottery. Whoever wins the lottery will be stoned to death and that is how they keep their population low and keep a good harvest. These choices affect the characters and the world by losing a part of their community and

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“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, is a short story expressed through the theme of apathy, when the community feels no emotion for anyone, that a ritual is more important than a human being, mob mentality, and hypocrisy which is prevalent within the townspeople. It may help learning more about Shirley Jackson to better understand why she wrote such a horrific story like, “The Lottery.” Shirley Jackson moved into a small town, Bennington, Vermont, where she wasn’t accepted within her town which shows she was thinking how cruel people can be. Not being accepted is not the same as being stoned or killed, but it has the capacity for cruelty. Through this, Shirley Jackson is suggesting that we need to examine ourselves and our actions carefully and live our lives consciously instead of

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