She frightens the children off and she throws rocks at them. “ She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence—the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angle of judgment—whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation…The victory accomplished, Pearl returned quietly to her mother, and looked up, smiling, into her face.”(chpt. 7) Pearl doesn't know why the children are making fun of her and her mother. However, her immense love for her mother leads her to turn into this fierce character in order to protect
It is possible that this plot does or could happen in real life. Abuse and racism happens in some countries and it can be very brutal, and is shown the same way as the story. Like Lilly there are children that continue to be abused by their parents and they are very sad and lonely but also there are also good people like the Boatwright sisters who are kind to all people regardless of their race. The ending of the story, solves the main plot’s conflict and there is a satisfying solution. At the end, Lily finds out the complete truth about her mother who lived in the Pink house, and on the day that she died, she went to get Lily and to run away from T. Ray.
Instead of having close family ties as before, Mrs. Hutchinson now tries to better her odds by endangering her own daughters. The women in the crowd tell her to “be a good sport”(393). Instead of standing with their friend, they expect her to accept the outcome of this random chance draw, that left her holding the slip of paper with the black spot that meant she was to die. The entire town, including the rest of the Hutchinson family, proceeds to choose stones from the pile, previously gathered by the boys, and stone Mrs. Hutchinson to death. This small town seems to be the ideal place to live.
So when the proceedings of the witch trials come to town the Putnam s take that as a way to take Rebecca down. They accuse her of killing their babies be conjuring up her spirit and killing them before they come out of the womb. Unfortunately for Rebecca she fall victim to the mass hysteria in Salem, and is thrown I jail because of it. So being the good Christian she is when Judge Danforth asks her to confess she does not. Rebecca Nurse one of the kind and innocent people in the Crucible fall from power do to the happening of the Salem Witch
In the end, the reader finds that there is a lack of loyalty amongst the people as Tessie Hutchinson is stoned to death- with her own children as participants in the murder- and the village is no longer seen as a delightful place but is visualized as evil and vindictive. The feminist approach can also be used to analyze The Lottery through women’s roles, actions, what happens to them, and what is said about them. There are several situations throughout the story that affect how the reader and how society might perceive the role of
“The Lottery” 9/22/10 Period 5 In the short story, “The Lottery” Jackson creates horror from a small innocent town in America. A horror sense in created by normal being scary. For example, if you get an answer wrong, you get rocks thrown at your head/stoned to death. Another example is that people act like animals because they throw rocks at people because they won the lottery. Mob mentality is created because when someone does something everyone follows.
“Suddenly you find yourself tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is close to colored children.”The only real emotion the clergymen felt is guilt. They were appalled with what they saw; they are ruining the lives of innocent people just because of their skin color. King puts the image of a little girl in the head of the reader, and the reader feels heartbroken. There is nothing worse than telling your kid they can’t do something because of what color their skin is. Is that fair?
(Page1) This shows that Abigail is not happy with her life right now. The audience might feel bad for her as they identify with the fact that sometimes getting what you want still doesn’t make you happy. Secondly when Abigail says “George Jacobs he comes again and again and raps me with his stick- the same spot all this week, look at the lump I have” (page2). This portrays that Abigail is an innocent girl and she is a victim. The audience will
The Black Plague can be credited for the invention of this popular nursery rhyme: Ring a-round the rosy pocket full of posies ashes, ashes, we all fall down! The death of family members left the children facing pain at an early age. Parents even went as far as to abandoning their children, leaving them on the streets to fend for themselves. They didn’t want to risk their babies giving them the deadly disease. Children were especially unlucky if they were girls.
For example, the antagonist, Abigail Williams, continuously lied about other people’s lifestyles and practices to benefit herself and help herself attain what she wanted. Her lies, as well as several other young girls who followed her example, lead to hysteria in the community, and unjust, unreasonable convictions that lead to many individual’s imprisonment and death. The girls participating and telling such dogma, gave them a sense of empowerment, which was uncommon for women and children in their society. On the other end of the spectrum, John Proctor, the protagonist, saw the girl’s behavior as fallacious and refused to partake and accept such ludicrous antics. After confessing honestly to committing adultery against his wife, and refusing to testify against Abigail ultimately lead to his down fall.