The creator of the Simpsons had a very challenging job, to base this episode "whacking day"on the short story the lottery. The story the lottery is a short tale, it occurs in a small town, the tradition on this town was to participate in the lottery and the one who won it should die beat out with rock by the citizens of the town. The only connection that we can make of why they did it is that maybe they wanted to honor the solider from the world war ll, die in honor for they country. The whacking day was basically the same story but just a little different. It was a day in which people smacked snakes just because it was an old tradition. In both of the stories there is one character who is not in agreement with the situation. On the lottery is the girl who was chosen as a winner at the end story was the only one that disagree with the tradition but she couldn't do anything about it. And on the Simpsons Lisa is totally disagree because she wants to protect the snakes and she doesn't find any sense of why this is a traditions. Both of them try to convince the people of what is correct but not all of them were successful . These types of satires are created to basically critique society and make them realize that not all traditions that now a days are still realized should be continued. They writes re make this satires over an over the years because as the times goes people still stick to their traditions and some of the should be stopped, and one way to make people think of what they do is by this types of satires. Writes transform work from one to another like from the lottery to whacking day basically analyzing the story and making a similar story with the same plot.
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