The sound of thunder and the lottery is a dystopian short story illustrated by Ray Bradbury (The sound of thunder) and Shirley Jackson (The Lottery). Both authors take us to their stories and emphasise the different types and styles of dystopian elements and how both stories are similar to one another. The analysis of both texts and the comparison between the two short stories will be compiled to determine the literary techniques that they utilise in their stories to catch the attention and entertain the audience.
A Sound of Thunder is one of the best-known time-travel stories, and the tale shows Ray Bradbury’s gift for economical prose, tight narrative structure, and sharp delineation of character. We sense that Eckels is going to be a liability
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Family members and friends randomly select a person in the city to be stoned to death. Every person in the village is confident that this kind of practice is natural and cheerfully welcomes it. The actions and the general behaviour of people are among the most remarkable characterization methods. Although this book does not contain many of them, the few acts that affect the characters define it. For example, the story introduces Mrs Delacroix as a determined lady with a quick temper. Her action of picking a big stone expresses it. “Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs Dunbar and said come on, Hurry up” (Last Page) Events of the story show that Shirley Jackson is condemning humankind’s hypocrisy and evil nature. “They greeted each other and exchanged bits of gossip with each other and joined their husbands” (Page 1). The reader expects the lottery to be advantageous in some way to the villagers. Nothing of value is achieved, though, in the form of such practice. Shirley Jackson depicts horrific and terrible things done in an ordinary manner that suggests underlying human evilness. Every evil deed in the book is done in a friendly and relaxed setting. Thus, it becomes clear that humans are deceiving in their