poop
“Mending Wall” / “The Lottery”
Period 2 Mr. Collins
“Comparing Two Works Using Literary Devices”
The theme “One should not blindly follow tradition for tradition’s sake”, can be proven true in the poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, and the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. In both works, you can see how people follow traditions because their previous generations did. In the poem, literary devices help show how the neighbors meet to fix fence because their previous generations did. In the short story, the whole town gathers in the town center to have a lottery because it has gone on longer than the oldest person in their town. In the poem by Frost, the image of how the two neighbors repair the wall between them. Also, the wall helps to see how they remain separated. The speaker has an apple orchard and the neighbor has all pine trees. These images show how the two neighbors are isolated from each other and do not get along. However, in the beginning of the short story from Jackson, you get pleasant images of kids playing, the sun shining, grass, and flowers blooming. However, those pleasant images change, when Tessie sees her best friend grabbing a rock she could barely pick up, and people handing her youngest son Davey pebbles. Both people are supposed to throw these stones at her. The image of Tessie getting hit in the side of the head by a rock is a dramatic way to intensify the mood. In both works, these images are seen because of what their ancestors did.
The setting in both works is in the countryside. However, in the poem from Frost, they are in the country and in Jackson’s short story; they are in the center of their village. This shows how they both are traditional. Foreshadowing however, helps clarify why the characters are acting the way they are. In the “Mending Wall”, the speaker has to initiate the meeting to fix the wall. This shows how they do not get along. However, in “The Lottery”, the kids piling
Period 2 Mr. Collins
“Comparing Two Works Using Literary Devices”
The theme “One should not blindly follow tradition for tradition’s sake”, can be proven true in the poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, and the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. In both works, you can see how people follow traditions because their previous generations did. In the poem, literary devices help show how the neighbors meet to fix fence because their previous generations did. In the short story, the whole town gathers in the town center to have a lottery because it has gone on longer than the oldest person in their town. In the poem by Frost, the image of how the two neighbors repair the wall between them. Also, the wall helps to see how they remain separated. The speaker has an apple orchard and the neighbor has all pine trees. These images show how the two neighbors are isolated from each other and do not get along. However, in the beginning of the short story from Jackson, you get pleasant images of kids playing, the sun shining, grass, and flowers blooming. However, those pleasant images change, when Tessie sees her best friend grabbing a rock she could barely pick up, and people handing her youngest son Davey pebbles. Both people are supposed to throw these stones at her. The image of Tessie getting hit in the side of the head by a rock is a dramatic way to intensify the mood. In both works, these images are seen because of what their ancestors did.
The setting in both works is in the countryside. However, in the poem from Frost, they are in the country and in Jackson’s short story; they are in the center of their village. This shows how they both are traditional. Foreshadowing however, helps clarify why the characters are acting the way they are. In the “Mending Wall”, the speaker has to initiate the meeting to fix the wall. This shows how they do not get along. However, in “The Lottery”, the kids piling