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Both “The Lottery” and “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” (Omelas) present scapegoatism and troubling aspects of tradition, but “The Lottery” explores those difficulties of changing habitual behavior while "Omelas" focuses more on moral decisions. ...
Both "The Lottery" and "Omelas" present examples of scapegoating. ... “The Lottery” sacrifices the woman to assure a good crop and continued good fortune, and the small child in "Omelas" suffers so that the rest of the society can feel joy. Old Man Warner, in “The Lottery,”recounts,“Used to be a saying about Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon”(595). And, in "Omelas," the narrator tells us:
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They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. ... What some Christians may find "aborrent" in "The Lottery" and "Omelas" is part of their own belief system. ... There is symbolism in the black box in “The Lottery. ... People had forgotten the details of how the lottery got started, and this is a recognizable phenomenon. At the height of the Vietnam War, when there was another lottery, we had forgotten the details of how the war got started. Then, as people in the crowd talked about how some towns were eliminating the lottery, the conservative old man, Old Man Warner, said, "Pack of crazy fools, Listening to the young folks, nothings good enough for them.
Approximate Word count = 928
Approximate Pages = 3.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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