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The Hunger Games is conducted as a punishment. The districts rebelled against the Capitol (Vive La Revolution). The districts lost when the Capitol wiped District 13 off the map. As Punishment every district, except for the capitol, has to send children to fight to the death in the Hunger Games.

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The difference in the Hunger Games and the The lottery is in plain sight.
The Lottery is conducted to make sure the crops they grow will be plentiful. They thought this wasn't wrong and did it as if it was the most humane thing on the planet.

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The Hunger Games were instilled by the government as a punishment for the districts when they rebelled and after they lost the 13th district was wiped off the map.

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The purpose of the ritual in The Lottery is to make a good harvest come in. I know this because on the backside of page 2 Old Man Warner says " Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.' First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns."