Comparison between the lottery and trial by combat
Shirley Jackson is a great writer who was born in San Francisco in 1919. She lived in a small town in Vermont with her husband, a literary critic. She was considered a very odd and controversial figure; some of the townspeople considered her to be a witch. She wrote a lot of different stories, from funny to disturbing pieces like “Trial by Combat” and “The Lottery”, who is considered as her masterpiece. “Trial by Combat” shows the good aspects of the human nature and “