Everyone in town would gather in the square every year for a ritual held by Mr. Summers. In this ritual, a family’s name is chosen from a wooden box; that family’s head male would come up and choose slips with the family member’s names on it. Whoever had a black dot on their slip would be stoned to death by the people of the town. “Catching Fire” is a novel by Suzanne Collins that was a big hit in America. In this
“The Lottery” and “The Veldt”… Being Compared You might like to ask, “What story is more disturbing, “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson or “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury?” or “Whose death is more deserved or violent?” “Which story would you live in?” These are some of the many questions you might ask, but I can only cover one topic. Since these stories are SO incredibly disturbing, I have a hard time finding which one is more disturbing. In my opinion, “The Veldt” is more disturbing. Just think of children being so obsessed with their fancy technology that they are willing to kill their own parents, who want to shut it all off. “The Lottery” is similar.
Kristy Mosley English 102 Instructor Guerin 21 February 2012 Obedience of Tradition in “The Lottery” “The Lottery” she expertly tells a story that is not only disturbing, but shocking and demonstrates In Shirley Jackson’s how coldness and the lack of compassion can be brought out in people, when in situations regarding obedience, in keeping with traditions. Shirley Jackson also exposes the many flaws of human nature in which a large role of obedience to superiors could cause considerable damage and sets the theme of the story to make the reader question many cultural traditions. The first character that surfaces and presents the role of obedience is Old Man Warner. Old Man Warner, being the oldest in the small town where the lottery takes place, has survived more lotteries than any other person in his village. As Warner puts it, "seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery.” (1217) Jackson uses Warner's own viewpoint on his continual luck to add drama to the large amount of time he has survived.
She indirectly implicates the truth and meaning of the lottery through the names and objects in the setting. I believe the lottery shows us how following a tradition closed minded could lead to unnecessary cruelty. Mr. Hutchison participates in his own wife’s stoning. When in a assemble group, people usually lose their individually and often peer-pressured. Mr. Hutchison went from joking with his wife to helping the villagers stone her to death in a blink of an eye.
"Why, it is a lie" Proctor will have felt a lot of pressure on his shoulders in the short amount of time he had to decide his own fate as he had two different sides chirping in his ear. In the end, Proctor decides to keep to his own laws and morals and tears up the paper in which stated that he had done work with the devil. And so Proctor was hanged with his dignity
Back to 1930s, prejudice is the most concerned thing of people in that period of time. It creates such hatred, crimes and racial segregation toward people. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Boo Radley, Tom Robinson and Atticus Finch are the victims of prejudice. It drives them into rough situations which they have to find the way to save themselves from this problem. Boo Radley is one of the character who is discriminated in several ways.
The course of enacting revenge is symbolically signified through the fervour of allegations of witchcraft, which destroys all judgment and creates a sense of belonging with the members of the community that have been involved in monstrous actions, such as killing babies and communicating with the devil. Miller, having been blamed of being a communist along with many of his friends, is critical of this hysteria. Despite some of his characters’ legitimate fear of witchcraft, the fervour surrounding their accusations leads to innocent people being accused of wrongdoing to satisfy vengeful grudges and create a sense of belonging. Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft in order to seek revenge, as Elizabeth acknowledges when she says, Abigail ‘thinks to kill me, then to take my place’. This shows Abigails desire to belong not only to proctor but also within the community, by taking Elizabeth’s position.
THE LOTTERY The Lottery, written by Shirley Jackson in 1948, is a mirroring of totalitarianism of Nazi Germany and the inherit evils of other societies; even our own. Written three years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Jackson's point hits home for an American culture that was simply judging Germany with out any thought of it's self. In the story, the reader is introduced to a picturesque little town in which an annual lottery is conducted to choose one townsperson to be stoned to death by the other townspeople. The stoning is rooted in tradition and is seldom questioned by the participants. A couple of themes are apparent throughout The Lottery; the first being that tradition is rapidly deteriorating in the story in the way that tradition
Evil or death represents the box based solely on the color. The black box is described as an ancient box that has been around for a long period of time, which holds the tickets for the lottery. The town’s people show loyalty to the black box. The black box has no reason of being use but only once a year for two hours every June. “It had spent on year in Mr. Grave’s barn and another year underfoot in the post office and sometimes it was set on a shelf in the Martin grocery and left there”
It was more developed and had more of a story to it. The two versions of the lottery both express the fact that you are a product of your environment and that you are heavily effected by your surroundings contributing to your overall being as a person. I believe The Lottery is a terrible idea as it not only kills innocent people but the fact that it doesn't even get rid of evil as they are convinced it does as when Jason arrived everyone in the town was trying to kill him and force him to leave as soon as he got there by blowing up his car and making it impossible to stay there even if he was being respectful to the town and