Too much Power

In the story, "The Lottery" By Shirley Jackson everything happens around the theme power and control. At the beginning, everyone is gathering for the lottery that takes place every year. It seems like a normal day but really it's not. The government controls the people of the village to come and draw out of a box for the black piece of paper. Whoever gets the piece of paper, their family has to draw to see who will get the black dot, meaning they will die. The government has brainwashed these villagers into thinking that this is right and completely normal. They have total control on everyone! When Tessie draws the black dot, she screams in panic. "It's not right! It's not fair!" And when a man tells the people to start throwing the rocks at her, everyone does. The villagers can't really do anything about it but to throw big stones so she dies quickly and less painfully. As you can tell, the government has all the power and control and the villagers can do nothing but obey.

This story also relates to one of the huge, best selling books, the Hunger Games! In the Hunger Games, 24 tributes have to kill each other to win. The government has all of the control and think that they have to keep continuing this tradition, like The Lottery! They have all the power and basically can do whatever they want to the children who are fighting and even before they are in the arena! They have so much control that each district has to do whatever the government tells them to do, no matter how stupid or how huge of a project. This book is exactly like "The Lottery" because of control and powering covering this whole book. Both of the books have the exact same overall theme, power and control.