Traditions in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Suzanne Colin's starving game and Shirley Jackson's lottery are theme, scapegoat and sacrifice. In "lottery", intense murder is done every year to protect the tradition. The same thing happened in a hunger game where men and women representing their regions were chosen with tribute, fatal deathmatch. But the end of these two stories are different. In the hunger game, no matter who wins, they will live a prosperous and free life and will be chosen to be killed by a family member.

Both texts represent the members of The Hunger Games of The Suzanne Collins, or the villagers of "The Lottery by Shtery" of Shirley Jackson. The problem of violence and social weather faced. The original theme shows how human beings are fascinated by human hypocrisy against violence and violent tradition.

Suzanne Colin's starving game and Shirley Jackson's lottery are theme, scapegoat and sacrifice. In "lottery", intense murder is done every year to protect the tradition. The same thing happened in a hunger game where men and women representing their regions were chosen with tribute, fatal deathmatch. But the end of these two stories are different. In the hunger game, no matter who wins, they will live a prosperous and free life and will be chosen to be killed by a family member.

The two books in this comparative article are Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games. "Lottery" is about the people in the town who take notes to confirm the person taking a note with a black pencil. The starving game and Peeta survive on the stage. In this book, Katniss and Peeta won the Hunger Games, two of them went back to District 12 with complex emotions and unforgettable experiences. These two books have many similarities. Tessie is doing very well for her husband ... Read more

"Lottery" is very similar to the story of Suzanne Collins's "starving game". In both stories, death and violence are easily regarded as ordinary and need to survive. Both "lottery" and "starving game" have the power to ignore what others are doing. Although it is different from the "lottery", it eventually dies, but in "starvation game" the result leads to survivors. Therefore, the motivation for death is different in each sentence, motivation is survival in "starving game", motive is tradition in "lottery". The theme of "Hunger Games" is a sacrifice. Throughout the book, Katnis paid a lot of sacrifice for her volunteer service to commemorate her sister Primm to sacrifice the broken needs to survive. The theme of "lottery" is tradition. Each year the lottery, the same box, the same violent way, no change is done