Comparing The Lottery, And A Visit To Grandmother

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Have you ever wonder why three stories are similar, well the three stories are: “What of This Goldfish, Would You Wish,” “The Lottery,” and “A Visit To Grandmother” they are similar because some characters have the same or almost the same problems. When some people do have problems, they can get out of control and they don’t know what to do or they just give up on their themselves. Having problems could be bad because they cause to make a lot of chaos and fights. On the Grandma story and the Goldfish stories are similar because they both have people that changed for reasons. The two people that changed were Charles from the Grandma story and Sergi fro the Goldfish story. These two men changed because they both had problems. Charles changed …show more content…

The people were getting mad at the goldfish because the wishes that they wished for happened and some wishes didn’t happen. So that is why people were getting mad at the goldfish. “The Lottery” is another story that made people get mad. The reason why “The Lottery” made people mad because Mr.Hutchinson was suppose to choose a number and Mr.Summers didn’t give time to Mr.Hutchinson and everybody especially Mr.Hutchinson said “It’s fine don’t argue anymore.” (8) Mr. Summers was also arguing with Mrs.Hutchinson about how she should stop arguing about that Mr.summers didn’t give time to Mrs.Hutchinson. Everybody were saying “That’s not fair for you to give us time to choose and you don’t give time to Mr.Hutchinson.” (⅞) Mr.Summers said “What’s not fair. Me not giving Mr.Hutchinson enough time to choose?” (8) Everybody including Mrs.Summers said “Yes how would we know who won or not.” (⅞) Mr.Summers got tired of everybody making so much chaos and he finally said “It’s not necessary to have everybody come up and choose a number.” Everybody looked at him and they gave him a mad face meaning “You should've told us earlier so we wouldn’t making all this chaos for you not letting Mr.Hutchinson choose and not giving him enough time.” (8/9) So basically everybody was just making chaos for a reason but that situation didn’t help Mr.Hutchinson give enough …show more content…

She went to Forever 21 to buy clothes, shoes, makeup, etc. and there was this one girl taking my friend’s stuff away so that girl can buy it but she knew that the stuff in the shopping cart was my friend’s and my friend notice that she took her stuff so my friend started the chaos with the girl that took her stuff. My friend was really sassy with the girl when the girl never knew that the things were her’s. When the girl put my friend’s stuff down, the girl went outside and my friend also went outside and when I was looking for my friend, I saw that they were arguing with each other so I went outside and put each one to the side and they just left without saying

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