Similarities Between Lord Of The Flies And The Lottery

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​It would be hard to think people being killed and people without morals would be similar, but The Lord of the Flies and "The Lottery" have a lot of differences and that is what makes them interesting. William Golding and Shirley Jackson wrote some similar stories. However, some differences between The Lord of the Flies and The Lottery are the motives for persecuting someone, the setting and the way people are killed.
​In the Lord of the Flies and The Lottery there are different motives for killing different people. In The Lord of the Flies they have strange reasons for attempting too kill Ralph. They leave his tribe after Jack creates his own tribe, which is more fun for the boys. Eventually they get violent and try too kill Ralph because they feel he will try too kill them or steal their supplies. In "The Lottery" they try too kill the new person for immature and stupid reasons. They try too kill him because his father would not participate in the brutal killing of a innocent person, this is known as The Lottery. There are more differences between the two books than just that though. …show more content…

The Lord of the Flies takes place on a island in the middle of the ocean. Since there are no adults too watch over the kids they get caught up in the freedom and make very bad immature decisions. Eventually they become fully savage and stop attempting to be rescued. "The Lottery" takes place in a small, old fashioned town. Since they are mentally separate from the rest of the world they do not realize what they should and should not be doing. But that is not the last of the differences between these two

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