The Island

In the short story The Lottery, it really resembles a movie I had seen before called The Island. This movie, similar to the story, consisted of clones who participated in a "lottery" that they thought would take them to some type of paradise island. But instead, it wasn't a random selection at all, and the person chosen was actually chosen to die. This resembes the short story remarkably. Not only in the plot, but in the similarity between how the characters in the movie perceive the lottery and how us as the readers perceive the lottery at the beginning. In the beginning of the short story, I perceived the lottery to be some type of good thing that could be won among the townspeople, just like how the clones perceived the lottery in the movie. But by the end, we find out that the lottery is a sacrificial type act and someone ends up getting stoned to death. In the movie, the clones figure out what the lottery really is, so the viewpoints are parallel.