While both the Lottery and The Hunger Games shared content ideas. The Lottery is more associated with the idea of ​​ritual while The Hunger Games is more associated with Punishment. These two stories highly value tradition and those who oppose it do not challenge it due to social conformity, human hypocrisy and rituals. These three topics are essential to understanding why the presence of false tradition is very real in both stories, The Lottery and The Hunger Games. Social conformity is an action in relation to prevailing social standards, attitudes and practices. This is very much presented in both stories. In The Hunger Games, the games themselves were introduced to all districts except the capital's rich ones for an attempted and failed rebellion that the poorer districts launched against the capital. The games involve each district choosing one male and one female "tribute" to fight in a gladiator-style combat arena. This concept of submission was introduced by the capital to show the other districts who their overlord was. Also that they must follow the actions of other citizens. This idea of ​​social conformity is also present in the Lottery as everyone has to submit their names to the lottery and have the attitude that this is how the tradition has been in previous years and things are not about to change. Social conformity is the number of goals that are achieved in the real world and there are those who watch or speak out against what is wrong in favor of what is right. Both stories demonstrate human hypocrisy towards violence and tradition. The Lottery's Tessie Hutchinson completely changes her emotions after winning the lottery, thinking she can beat the odds and be free from... middle of the paper... higher or lower social status. In both texts, the societies in both books blindly follow a tradition and as a result face death either for the amusement of the rich or simply as tradition enforced by those who feel it must be done. In conclusion, both stories are similar in themes, but the Lottery is more of a false tradition and the Hunger Game is more of a false tradition and the Hunger Game is a punishment. These two stories value traditions and rituals so much and those who do not agree with them, do not challenge them due to social conformity, human hypocrisy towards violence, tradition and rituals. There is a sense that in the stories people put these traditions into practice because they feel they have them too and are obeying the rules that were once put in place by man and imposed by fear as a society and those that started the tradition.