In “The Hunger Games”, the winners can obtain the house which was dedicated to the winners. The quality of life has a huge change in that poor become rich. They don’t worry about the food, money, work, and so on. For example, Haymitch who is the winner in the 74th Hunger Games comes from district 12. After he won the Hunger Games, he became very lazy. And he looks drunk everyday. However, the winner is dead in “The Lottery”. In the story, Old Man Warner said: “Nothing but trouble in that, pack of young fools.” (Jackson, 234) Old Man Warner opposes to stop the lottery. They think the sacrifice is good thing, and it is for the prosperity of the village. So, all of the villagers are deceived by the lottery. In brief, the winner’s life is affluent in The Hunger Games, but death does not mean the end in The Lottery, and it is honorable