The short story “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson has numerous differences as well as similarities from the video. One difference between the story and the short film is the stool that the black box sat on only had three legs and in the short film the stool had four legs. Also, Mr.Summers never spoke of making a new box in the film like he did in the story in fact he did not mention it once. Another difference is the black box was depicted as old and splintered with a fresh coat of paint, but in the short film the black box looked new and not splintered. One more difference is in the story it was Mr. Dunbar, who could not keep up with everyone when they were going to sacrifice Tessie in the short film it was woman. A similarity between