Have you ever seen traditions or rituals that have been going on for a long time and realize they are bad for people? In the story, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, it is a fictional story about a boy named Jonas who finds something about his community that nobody else knows. In the short story, “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, it is a dramatic story about a game that the whole community participates in but there is a twist about it that is very terrifying. In the stories, Lowry and Jackson both use the plot of the story to show that not all traditions should continue.

In the story, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, she uses the plot of the story to show that not all traditions should continue. Jonas said, "If everything's the same, then there aren't