Similarities Between The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas And The Lottery

In the fabricated short stories “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K LeGuin and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, both have descriptive meanings of sacrifice. In these short stories, sacrifice is enforced to become beneficial for everyone else in these communities. By comparing and contrasting these short stories between how the society is developed, what is being sacrificed, and how the sacrifice is beneficial, shows how this helps make everyone in these communities mirthful. In “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K LeGuin, due to sacrifice, the people in the society were joyful and satisfied towards the way they were living. They weren’t exactly classified as normal. Their economics were quite developed, although

As in “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” little children were being sacrificed. In their society many citizens were cruel and “One of them may come in and kick the child to make it stand up (LeGuin,3).” Keeping the child, “ In a basement under one of the beautiful public buildings of Omelas (LeGuin,3),” kept the citizens from worrying about was there still someone being sacrificed to help benefit them. In “The Lottery,” people were entered in d drawing and they were chosen randomly. There was so specific person that had to sacrifice themselves. It was a tradition for the lottery to happen each year. Both communities were accepting injustice due to the sacrifices. As quoted, “The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born. Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box (Jackson,1),” this shows how anyone could be chosen to be murdered by getting stoned, Both sacrifices in theses societies helped become beneficial for