Omelas Vs Lottery

To begin comparing the two short essays, “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson in 1948 and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” written by Ursela Le Guinn in 1973, was exactly like taking today’s communities and aspects of life in 2015, and realizing there are no differences between all three decades of time. “The Lottery” begins with a community portraying an uneasiness in each person’s actions because a certain event takes place the same day, every year, casting a shadow on everyone’s lives on that day. Every person will select a slip of paper from a box and the person with the slip that has a black dot on it will be stoned to death, quickly, with stones that people have already stacked in a pile. The pile is an accumulation