“the Lottery” and “Hills Like White Elephants” Essay

â€Å"The Lottery† and â€Å"Hills like White Elephants† Regardless of the type of society people live in controversial topics and cowardly individuals can create conflict. The stories â€Å"The Lottery† by Shirley Jackson and â€Å"Hills like White Elephants† by Ernest Hemingway implement this concept. â€Å"The Lottery† is about a small town that holds an annual lottery in which the winner will be killed. â€Å"Hills like White Elephants† is the story of a couple’s discussion over the decision they must make of whether or not to terminate their pregnancy. The social controversies and the weak female characters in these stories are similar, although their social structure is very different. The social controversy depicted in â€Å"The Lottery† is murder and in â€Å"Hills†¦show more content†¦They are also not willing to protect their own children for fear of upsetting the other characters in the stories. Mrs. Hutchin son points the finger at her two children because they did not draw from the box. She puts them in harm’s way to save her husband, which is similar to Jig, who is willing to abort her baby to keep her lover. Mrs. Hutchinson never states her true feeling about the lottery until the very end when she is the one picked to be stoned to death. She states â€Å"it isn’t fair, it isn’t right† (Jackson. 54). It is the first time she voiced her opinion even though she felt this way all along. Lori Voth states in â€Å"Analysis of â€Å"The Lottery† â€Å"Jackson uses the protagonist, Mrs. Hutchinson, to show an individual consumed by hypocrisy and weakness†. She knew it was inhuman to murder someone but was too weak to say so. Jig also goes along with her lover, not for her own happiness but for his. She states â€Å"Then I’ll do it. Because I don’t care about me† (Hemingway. 200). She agrees to get an abortion even though it is not what she wants but what he wants. 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