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The Lottery / Young Goodman Brown The two short essays written by Jackson and Hawthorne are both thought provoking and full of evil. Many symbols are used to help develop the themes of both stories. The authors unveil the stories in such a way that you really don't know what the outcomes are going to be, but you do know that they will involve insights into morality - of both the main characters and the societies …

…members of the village go to the pile of stones, pick up a hand-full and throw them at Mrs. Hutchinson as she screams "It isn't fair, it isn't right" None of the community questions the morality of this yearly "lottery". They adopt the attitude of 'better him than me'. While religion is not mentioned in "The Lottery", it does bring up the ideas of right and wrong, and the pure evil of the winner's prize.