The Lottery Short Story And Movie Similarities
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The short story and the movie The Lottery have so many ironic similarities and differences. The first ironic similarity in both the short story and movie is the first thing the reader sees; the title. The title itself The Lottery has so much irony. When someone wins a lottery in our generation it’s money or some other wonderful item but, in the short story/movie the lottery it’s a raffle to see who will get stoned. In both the short story/movie it’s ironic that the victim being stoned both have child partaking in the process of their death. It’s ironic because the son and or daughter were hugging their mother before she got picked and then they took part in her stoning. One of the major differences in the short story was, things were explained