Similarities and Differences between The Lottery and The Hunger Games

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This is indeed very brutal, and is expected only a few members of the society protest against it, but their voices are ignored. The two stories portray the ritual killing as part and parcel of the community cultural beliefs and many have died in the process, several decades after its initiation. The Hunger Games shows the post apocalypse period, (PhD and Scholar 44-45) with advancement in technology, while The Lottery shows a pre-modern civilization community which has been primarily relying on rituals. This analysis covers cultural rituals, community leadership and family love as its main concepts. The Lottery. From the story, the family underwent the subjective culture without remorse. A small section of the community however disagrees with this cultural practice and would like it called off.

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The mastermind of the civic events, who is depicted as someone who does not value family and is facing problems with her family and in that case seen to strictly propagate and encourage the culture. The story initially received criticism from The New Yorker but was later accepted as the only one story that presented the evils of the rituals practiced to keep alive the tradition. The Hunger Games. It is some sort of survival for the strongest fighter. At the end, Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen emerge the final fighters, who are actually both form District 12. In a bid to defy the authority from their oppression, the two decide to consume a poisonous berry and die, but the authority intervenes and announces both of them as winners ("Hunger Games (2012 Movie) - Official Theatrical Trailer - Jennifer Lawrence & Liam Hemsworth").

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