Similarities and Differences in Shirley Johnsons The...

The short stories â€Å"The Lottery† by Shirley Johnson and â€Å"Just lather, that’s all† by Hernando Tellez both portray similar situations even though they are two entirely different stories. The two stories both illustrate human feelings and behaviors mostly in reference to fear, violence, unfairness and pride. These two stories, even though they have some things in common, still have some differences and represent some ideas in different fashions. The similarities and differences between these stories have been critically reviewed and will be discussed in the essay. The two stories are both centered on a particular person in the story. â€Å"The Lottery† was centered round Tessie Hutchinsen who happened to be the unlucky one to have picked the†¦show more content†¦In â€Å"Just Lather, That’s All†, as well as â€Å"The Lottery† we can view unfairness from a particular person’s perspective. The violence, as well as cruelty in the two stories is seen from the way Captain Torres treated his prisoners in â€Å"Just Lather, That’s All† and also from the way the members of the community treated themselves in â€Å"The Lottery† with no sense of publicized guilt or conscience. Captain Torres was a murderer who did not care about the way he brutally killed his prisoners. Even from the barber’s conversation with him, the man shows no form of sympathy for those he killed but only expresses a sort of thirst for killing more people. The people of the community in ‘The lottery’ also participate in the tradition of stoning to death innocent members of the village with no apparent grief or remorse all in the name of it being a traditional practice. The two stories reveal violence in a raw and barbaric manner. Furthermore, the systems of government in the two stories differ. As we see in â€Å"Just Lather, That’s All† the system of government can be seen to have been a dictatorship because Captain Torres had total power over the affairs of the whole community and no one could question his authority. He killed people as he pleased just for his pleasure and nobody could complain or fight against his action. However, we see in â€Å"The Lottery† that they went by a democratic government system. Every member of the community was a part of the decision to keep the tradition