The Lottery

Diction:

 * "Nervous(ly), unease, " - Adjective that foreshadows the end of the story

Tone
Detached and cold, very matter of fact. The tone does not reflect the nature of the narrative itself

Issues

 * Tradition
 * Violence
 * Normalisation
 * Gender

Ideas

 * The normalisation of violence in children

Language Techniques
Both stories share a similar feature in the use of the 'plot twist' in which a focal detail of the story is withheld from the audience until late in the story that changes the readers perception of the story as a whole. This plot twist is foreshadowed in both stories through the use of various language techniques, predominantly use of diction. Words like "nervously" and "raiding", "pinning", and "ambush" foreshadow the true nature of the story through the connotation and stigma that the words hold in our modern lexicon. Tone is also used similarly in both narratives through the creation of a distant, detached narrator of events rather than that of a personal, emotional involvement in the plot of the story.

Ideas and Issues
The stories share some similar issues, namely the issues of: The stories explore these issues in similar yet differing ways. In relation to violence and aggression, whilst the Rhinocerous Beetle is an example of an unexplored, hinted at gory violence, the violence represented in The Lottery is unabashed and displayed in all its glory, with the author avoiding describing it, but inferring the exact events.
 * Aggression
 * Gender
 * Violence
 * Complacency