Analytical Essay

The two stories that I decided to compare were “The Lottery” and “Two Kinds” these two short stories share very similar themes. The Lottery is a story about a small town that focus is on the amount of rain they will receive for the corn crop that year. While the story of two kinds focuses on a relationship complex relationship between daughters and their mothers. Two Kinds was written by Amy Tan and is a section of her book the Joy luck Club.   Amy Tan was born to a family of Chinese emigrants in 1952 in California. Shirley author of The Lottery was born in San Francisco in 1919. Both of these women are well known authors whom are recognized for their extraordinary writing styles. The woman have things in common even though born in different cities during different times. Their stories when written are similar in how they read and how they draw readers in. In “ The Human Experience the book worked with the theme with the two books that create a conformity and clash. “Feature a clash between two well-articulated positions, in which rebel, on principle, confronts and struggles with established authority”(p.312). Both books “ Two Kinds” and “ The Lottery” share the themes of this statement. The books show rebellion and show how they personally experienced this conformity in different forms. While the books focuses on two very different topics the contrast and the writing styles are similar. “The Lottery” takes place in a village that has taken on a ritual for the past 77 years, believing that by personal sacrifice the village will someone how be blessed with a good crop that year.” The Lottery” illustrates how one person deferred from the ritual when her own life is at stake. On the another “Two Kinds” focuses on mother who were born in China before the revolution and have been detached from the culture for many years. While they are detached their American daughters must adapt with overbearing mother’s whom wants something for their daughter they may not want for...