The Carnival And The Lottery Short Story

Everyone has dealt with tradition one time or another in their life. Tradition is a crucial part of human existence. Tradition keeps the future flowing while keeping the past in mind. “The Carnival” and “The Lottery” are two short stories that exemplify the importance of tradition. To clarify, “The Carnival” is about a character named Jerry who gets the chance to go to a carnival which the rides are used to assassinate people to decrease population. Jerry rides the first ride with success and after he has gloated about his liveliness, the next ride kills him. “The Lottery” is about a town that conducts a lottery every year and this year the person who fought against it, won. The winner receives a stoning which kills them. Michael Fedo’s “The Carnival” and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” show connection between craft moves and themes without failing to account for contrast as well. In the first place, both lessons that are taught in each story deal with the significance of heritage, although it may be inhumane.

Together with, it could also be said that symbolism in “The Lottery” creates the problem making it different from “The Carnival. Although these claims may still be true, they do not account for all of the tradition present in both stories. “...no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented…” (Jackson 1.) To put it differently, with all of the custom current, no one in “The Lottery” wants to disrupt this ethnic. By the same token, whereas symbolism may play a small role in creating the problem, the dark mood is created even more. After all, the karma—the sum of a person's actions—that Jerry resorts to in the end plays only a small role in creating the theme. All things considered, tradition is the main part of “The Carnival” and “The Lottery” making the previous claims