Differences Between The Hunger Games And The Lottery Games

The Lottery Games When involved with a near death experience humans will use any and all survival instincts, they know in order to prevent their death with all their might. The closer to death someone may come would mean the more they 'll strive to stay alive because ultimately no one wants to die, even if that means killing another person in order to do so. Although many people would deny this claim, I find this to be very true in my opinion because if you 're put into a situation where it’s either you have to die versus someone else dying; you obviously wouldn 't want to be the person who dies. Death is a very scary thing that can happen to a person and although everyone will ultimately meet their demise, it 's even harder to have someone

In the movie, the Hunger Games are a national event in Panem, everyone from the capital and all 13 districts are watching as all the tributes are fighting for their lives. What we get from this, however, is that the Hunger Games are basically a form of entertainment for the people of these districts and the people from these Districts have been watching this go on for 74 years. In the Lottery, we see that the people in this village, although they don’t really see it and barely notice they are finding entertainment by basically killing someone as a group. In the story, Shirley states, “Mrs. Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar. “ Come on,” she said. “Hurry up.” Mrs. Dunbar had small stones in both hands, and she said, gasping for breath, “I can’t run at all. You’ll have to go ahead and I’ll catch up with you.”” (Jackson 630). After reading this quote, I noticed that although the people of the village are oblivious to it, they are finding entertainment with the lottery because they end up killing someone, which is the most fun part to them. They are getting creative, one person picks up a huge stone to chuck at Tessie and other people are just grabbing other forms of stones to ultimately kill Tessie with it. They were even giving little Davey pebbles to chuck at his mom as well, which is really