Similarities Between Omelas And The Lottery

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The short stories “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The ones who walk away from Omelas” by Ursulak LeGuin , both are fiction. They both sacrifice each other's family members. The sacrifice helps them in many ways such as happiness. They both try and convince the readers that they are in a perfect place. The short stories both explains how perfect the place they are in is. In The short story “Omelas” talks about the beautiful buildings they got. The short story “Lottery” talks about how the people houses and how nice the people are. The things this stories talks about makes the readers think that the place there in is really perfect. Omelas talks about choosing a baby to sacrifice. That's how you know that they are very selfish