Using Iron and Characterization to Convey the Human Nature (Essay Sample)

Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and Graham Greene’s The Destructors: Using Iron and Characterization to Convey the Human Nature
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Iron and Characterization in Conveying the Human Nature
As per Phillips's (2010) delineation, fiction authors attract a growing readership by developing intriguing stories, that not only tell of events that are believably close to reality but also incorporate a unique blend of characters, plot, and stylistic devices to develop a story that keeps readers coming back time and again. One of the most critical components of fiction writing is, therefore, the theme, which delineates the principal idea that a story communicates. As Phillips (2010) mentions, authors combine elements such as characterization, style, tone, and setting to develop the theme(s) of a story. This essay’s principal argument is that Shirley Jackson and Graham Greene combine irony and characterization to convey human nature in The Lottery and The Destructors respectively.
Both Greene’s and Shirley’s (1948) work covey the theme of human nature in their short stories, and each of the stories incorporates irony as a building blog contributing towards this accomplishment. Generally, the context of both “The Lottery” and The Destructors is in the mid-1900s, shortly after World War II when the world had come to have a deeper comprehension of human