Compare And Contrast The Lottery And The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

There are things in this story that are very similar, but also very different. Like the change in setting throughout the story. What are your ideas of sacrifice? Time? Animals? Death? There are many different ideas of sacrifice, but why in this way? Both of the stories make you feel very different ways throughout the story. In both of the stories “The Lottery” and “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” there are many examples of different topics that you can relate, but also differentiate in many ways. To start, my first topic is change in setting. The setting in “The Lottery” begins clear, sunny, and full of cheer. The story quotes “The morning of june 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of full summer day; the flowers were

To contrast the stories, while i was reading “The Lottery”, I felt happy in the beginning while the setting was bright and it seemed like a perfect summer day. It was sunny, bright, and warm. Then when the people got together for the lottery you could feel the mood start to darken when they were talking about the old, black box when they said “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.” This quote started to make me suspicious about the lottery. This lead me to become confused, but as the story began to unfold, I started to feel anger when I found out what the lottery really was. In contrast to “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” I felt hope in the beginning for the village, but when I found out they locked a innocent kid in a cellar without food and water I started to feel sorrow. It made me sad to think they chose an innocent kid to torture for the rest do the village. The story quotes “To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed.” This means that they are willing to give up the happiness and life of one kid for the happiness of many people. This is the part that made me feel bad for the kid, but also confused on what