Freedom of choice is a human right. What would life be like without freedom of choice? In both stories, The Giver by Lois Lowry and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, they follow traditions that have been around longer than their generation. While The giver is somewhat different they still follow the rules that have been around for god knows how long. Both of these stories follow a dystopian theme In The Giver, they follow rules that prevent them from feeling things, for example they cannot say the word love. "Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete" (Lowry 127). They know about love but they don't feel it. Even if they are a family they only tolerate each other because they have to. Not because they want to do so. Love was meaningless to them. “Meaningless? He had never before felt anything as meaningful as the memory” (Lowry 127). They follow the community's rules not being able to do stuff on their own. Being puppets to people who won't even show their faces. …show more content…
Other towns have stopped the lottery yet this town hasn't stopped stoning people. “that over in the north village they’re talking of giving up the lottery” (Jackson, para 31). They stopped doing lotteries because it was more a ritual than a lottery. People getting killed because it's been going on for years and years. Leaving women with the family letting them do all the work especially if they don't have a son they’ll have to participate. “Me, I guess,” a woman said, and Mr. Summers turned to look at her. “Wife draws for her husband,” Mr. Summers said. “Don’t you have a grown boy to do it for you, Janey?” (Jackson, para 13). They are women to participate but what if they have young children, they won't be able to raise them if they got selected. Even if they don’t get selected there is still fear of getting selected each