The Danger of Ritual and Tradition in The Hunger Games and The Lottery The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson both delineate the risks of indiscriminately following ritualized practices and customs. The tales include the utilization of a systematized drawing framework, one which is utilized to indiscriminately pick a penance for the particular social orders. The Hunger Games utilizes a framework entitled, the procuring, which is utilized to choose two young people to take an interest in a gladiatorial fight until the very end. Likewise, in The Lottery, the lottery framework empowers a town to single out a penance that is in this way stoned. The two frameworks use a mix of state of mind and discourse, references to the turmoil before the request, and the portrayal of power figures to depict the results of networks neglectfully submitting to the acts of convention. The aftereffects of these frameworks are that singular individuals from that network are made to hold up under the results.

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