Compare And Contrast The Lottery And The Veldt

For this essay, I will be talking about The Veldt and The Lottery. The author of The Veldt is Ray Bradbury. Originally, The Veldt was called The World the Children Made. The author of The Lottery is Shirley Jackson. Both stories are mainly told in third-person point of view.

Next I would like to talk about the theme of each story. In The Veldt, we can see that the children were very vengeful towards their parents. When their parents decided to take away the nursery, something triggered the children’s imagination to get revenge on their parents. While The Lottery does not have a theme of revenge, it still has themes that are very strong. One of the themes for The Lottery could be that society may have had violent traditions in the past but

those traditions are not necessarily forgotten.
Both of these stories ended up having a violent and gloomy ending. In The Veldt, we see that the children imagined that their parents were being killed by lions and it happened. In The Lottery we see that the people stoned Tessie because they were basically blaming her for their mistakes. Both of their endings were terribly tragic and evil. Some people might argue that these two short stories were too evil and that they did not have to end so wickedly.
In Conclusion, I think that these two short stories are a very good read. Both of them are gloomy at the end, but overall very interesting. I honestly think that these two stories are wonderful. I love how both authors let their imaginations show. This is my essay on The Veldt and The Lottery.