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What Are The Similarities Between A & P And The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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In The Lottery Tessie and Sammy from A&P was faced with a traumatic events that made them feel like an outsider in their society. In both stories Tessie and Sammy decided to take a stand because of the situation they both faced with. In The Lottery Tessie scrutinize the way the lottery worked because she got picked. For Sammy from A&P he made a good selfish decision, which could change his future. However, they both felt they where right in the stands they took , which changed the way they viewed the world. In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, their was a village that had a tradition of killing the person who won The Lottery. Tessie Hutchinson was how ever the person who won and that means she would be stoned to death by the people in her village. In the text “A stone hit her on the head”. Which shows they did not have mercy on her. The tradition of the lottery has been going on for years so the people have been doing it with the intentions that it helps the crops grow. “Use to be a saying about lottery in June, corn be heavy soon”. Nevertheless, to Tessie Hutchinson was wrong for scrutinizing the lottery …show more content…

He does not find the customers that come in attractive and he calls them funny names like “witch” “house slaves”. The stand that Sammy makes is that he does not want to end up like Stokesie’s his coworker. In the text it shows that “Stokesie married, with two babies … He’s twenty-two”. In Sammy eyes he believes that his life will be like stokesie when he gets older. The girls that came in to the supermarket help him to realize that there is more to life and the decision of leaving the A&P was a good decision for him even though it could have affect his family .In the text “My stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter . This quote prove that Sammy decision was hard for him to do but it was him to better his self and not follow the pattern at his

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