Shirley Jackson wrote the short fictional story called The Lottery in 1948, first written in the magazine called The New Yorker. It starts out as a nice warm day on June 27, with blooming flowers and green grass in a small village of about three hundred people. Every year this village has a lottery; Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves set it up every year. And whoever draws the paper with the black dot they get stoned as a sacrifice for their crops. Even though there are some young people that want to stop doing it, tradition is very strong so they won’t. After everybody has drawn their piece of paper they figure out who has the black dot, and this year it was Bill Hutchison, who got drawn because he was the head of the Hutchison household. Then, they do a second drawing for all of the people in their household like their kids, and Bill's wife, Tessie was the “winner” and so she got stoned to death. Two of the main themes in the short story was that tradition is very strong and not easily changed another theme in this story was that greed was taking the town over and ruining it. Tradition is very strong because it led to the town murdering someone each year and someone in the story tried to speak up but they got shot down right away that shows how strong tradition is and how hard it is to change. Greed was taking over the city by making them kill all of their people to get better crops to they would make more …show more content…
To start with was that the lottery was set up very similar. It was very similar because the order they did things like the drawing, also Mr. Summers and Mr. graves ran the lottery in both the movie and the story. The next similarity is that they stoned Tessie and all of the kids were gathering stones before the lottery. The last similarity is that the dialogue was the same between them they said the exact same things like when Old Man Graves said “Lottery in June corn be heavy