The Most Dangerous Game And The Lottery Analysis

We live in a Civilization where mankind has lost its ability to empathize with one another, but rather feed into one’s greed, selfishness, and evilness that mankind has permitted into our lives. The Most Dangerous Game and The Lottery both are stories about what happens when society, stop caring about the rules that governs us, and rather conforms to their own set of rules. These two stories articulate to readers how mankind inherits certain traditions that in the long run disturbs how we convey our surroundings. The Bible speaks about the heart of man in Jeremiah 17:19, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it”, in this verse the leaves no room when it comes to describing what the heart of man is. In

This voices to the reader how the people in the village are beginning their day, the people from the village are mainly gathering for the year’s Lottery. From the look of things this lottery is not going to take much time to conclude, it began at ten o’clock in the morning, but the reader is informed that it should “through in time for to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner” The lottery is the village’s event which every person is permitted to participate; regardless the age, these are ordinary people who have gathered for an “ordinary” event. The men are talking about farming and taxes whiles the women are exchanging gossip, there’s all kinds of activities going on leading the reader to the anticipation of the Lottery.

Whiles the Lottery is given a pleasant atmosphere and peaceful environment, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell introduces the reader to ship on its route to Rio, on a dark hot summer night. As the ship passes through an Island which is believed to be “Ship Trap Island”, a name given by sailors for its “bad reputation”. There are two hunters; Whitney and

Whiles Lottery clings to traditions over the life of a man, the most dangerous game clings to overweening to satisfy what the need of self. Both stores are willing to take a life to accomplish their desires, life has no value in these stories. The value of one’s life is not greater than the traditions of the village in the lottery and in the same way the value of life is also not greater than animal as it’s seen in the most dangerous game. When man convoy’s to society, it loses its essence and value, when the Prophet Jeremiah voiced out how deceitful and sick the heart of man is, he clarify had an idea of what he was talking about. History can attest to the evilness and selfishness of man and the destruction it has carried upon mankind. God values life reason because he “created man in His image and likeness”, and when man sinned against Him he sent His son Jesus to save mankind. That is the length of life treasured in the eyes of