Lack Of Freedom In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

No one can take away other’s freedom, if there is no violation or misbehavior from their part, and decide whether who lives or not by an unsystematic method. The lack of freedom can lead others to accumulate all kind of negative emotions, especially destructive feelings, like wanting the end of the world in a miserable way just because their life might end or had ended in that matter. Life can put anyone in a terrible situation regardless of one’s identity or economic status. However, this does not mean life is being bad at one’s person but is a test that life gives to people. These situations make people know who they are, how strong they are such as mentally and physically, and who do they implore and maintain their faith when things are

In contrast to the autobiography Night, is about the own habitants of a village participating in a raffle that consists on selecting who is going to be stoned to death. The names of all the habitants are dispose on an old black box in the annual event that takes place in a square among the post office and the bank each June 27th and the murder lottery begins. The fact that the event is called “The Lottery”, makes the audience think that the person selected will be the winner. Unfortunately, it is completely the opposite, instead of being a winner it is a victim, as the lottery takes away the winner’s life. It might even be at first exciting since it can be considered like a game for the villagers since they do not know who will be chosen, but when the hostess calls out the name that can be someone that they might know or their own person, stops being electrifying. This annual ritual as named the lottery has a

In contrast to Night and “The Lottery”, “Fire and Ice” does not want the end of a specific group of people or exact person, if not the end of the world. In the first two lines, Frost states what is the poem generally about and demonstrate his different opinion “some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice” (Lines 1-2). Frost’s purpose is to bring the reader to a center of contention between what to contemplate, if the world will have a fierce or cold culmination. He also states that he prefers the world to end in fire rather than ice, but if the world is destroyed by ice it would be