Comparing The Lottery And An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
Every person on Earth has or will experience death. The world is full of it and it can’t be changed. Both of the short stories, “The Lottery” and “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” are not any different. They both involve one person dying and they both have evil people and an evil mood. “The Lottery” is a short story about a town that sacrifices one person every year to have a good harvest. “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” is a short story about a guy named Peyton that is getting hanged and dreams that he gets to see his family one last time but before he opens the door to his house he sees a white light and dies. Even though “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce have many distinct differences,
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“An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” uses craft moves including imagery to interest the reader and create a setting. While Peyton is in the dream the author uses imagery to explain what he saw in his dream. “There was no additional strangulation; the noose about his neck was already suffocating him and kept the water from his lungs. To die of hanging at the bottom of a river!—the idea seemed to him ludicrous. He opened his eyes in the darkness and saw above him a gleam of light, but how distant, how inaccessible!” This quote helps us to see Peyton drowning and just barely touching death. In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson uses symbolism to support the theme and dialogue to create a mood. In the short story the box, the names, the rocks, and the white slips are all examples of symbolism. “The rest of the year, the box was put way, sometimes one place, sometimes another; it had spent one year in Mr. Graves's barn and another year underfoot in the post office. and sometimes it was set on a shelf in the Martin grocery and left there” Throughout “The Lottery” the dialogue creates a mood. “"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed” (Jackson 7). This dialogue creates a sad mood and makes the reader feel as they are the
“An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” uses craft moves including imagery to interest the reader and create a setting. While Peyton is in the dream the author uses imagery to explain what he saw in his dream. “There was no additional strangulation; the noose about his neck was already suffocating him and kept the water from his lungs. To die of hanging at the bottom of a river!—the idea seemed to him ludicrous. He opened his eyes in the darkness and saw above him a gleam of light, but how distant, how inaccessible!” This quote helps us to see Peyton drowning and just barely touching death. In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson uses symbolism to support the theme and dialogue to create a mood. In the short story the box, the names, the rocks, and the white slips are all examples of symbolism. “The rest of the year, the box was put way, sometimes one place, sometimes another; it had spent one year in Mr. Graves's barn and another year underfoot in the post office. and sometimes it was set on a shelf in the Martin grocery and left there” Throughout “The Lottery” the dialogue creates a mood. “"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed” (Jackson 7). This dialogue creates a sad mood and makes the reader feel as they are the