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Jackson's Short Stories: The Lottery And Charles

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Shirley Jackson has written many good short stories. These short stories include “The Lottery” and “Charles”. In these up coming paragraphs I will talk about all the differences and similarities of both these short stories. Both Charles and The Lottery have interesting Plot twists. The lottery’s plot twist being that the winner of The Lottery is sacrificed to ensure a better harvest. The plot twist in Charles being that charles is a character made up by laurie to make sure he doesn’t get in trouble for all the bad things he’s done. Another similarity is the Situational Irony. This is very clearly present in The Lottery when Mrs. Hutchinson's son picks up stones and in the end she ends up dying. This is also very clearly present in Charles’
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