Stoning

Women have been victims of injustice for hundreds of years, but in Pakistan there is a particular form of torture that stands out amongst them all. Stoning is a form of capital punishment known to Pakistan, where a group of people throw stones at a man or women until he or she dies. Unfortunately, women are more often subjected to this form of punishment than men because of their status in society. Stoning is considered a form of execution by torture because it is a lot slower than other forms of execution. In other countries like Afghanistan and Iraq, stoning has been declared illegal, but it is still being practice extra judicially which means it is beyond the action or authority of the court. In modern times, allegations of stoning are politically sensitive, as in the case of Iran, which describes such allegations as…

like Saudi Arabia, their main execution practice on women is stoning; this is when a woman is buried from the chest down and spectators grab any size rock to throw it at her. For women, executions are just as brutal as the one in "A Hanging." Women are stoned because they are thought to have committed adultery or prostitution. Even if a man was in the wrong, the woman would automatically be punished because they are "property." On www.independent.co.uk, the al-Shabaab militia accused a thirteen…

The story symbolizes tradition, unquestioned traditions that exist not just in the society of the Lottery. The Lottery suggests collective mentality, despite Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson being married he participates in the stoning of his wife, as do her children and friends. When a group is set in a tradition, people lose their individuality and may succumb to peer pressure. The fact that Mr. Hutchinson and her friends in the town can go from being neighbors and casual with each other one moment, to…

tradition to be a more anonymous way of killing to ensure that there is no one killer. The whole village is quartered into one place in order to take part in the event. Women, men, and children are enforced to participate in brutally stoning a victim to death and repeating it every year. Having the children create a “great pile of stones in the corner of the square” (Jackson 95) seems like innocent play until Jackson unravels in the ending that they are also contributors to the murder of the…

sacrifice, this is also closely related to religion. Nonetheless the characters Mr. and Mrs. Dellacroix have no problem picking “a stone so large” to sacrifice someone else. According to an online article on UKEssays just because her name is religious does not mean that she Garcia5 will hesitate to “help kill her because of the tradition.” That same article also stated that “the church, usually seen as a positive influence, can sometimes turn on a person in the name is ritual and tradition.”…

“Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.”(76) The villagers are all too eager to embrace what remains, eagerly picking up the stones and carrying on the “tradition” for another year. Not only is stoning a particularly horrifying way to imagine dying, it's also, always, a crowd-generated death. In other words, stones allow everyone in the village to participate freely in the ritual, from the youngest children to Old Man…

nobody hesitated. How does these people’s conscious let the throw the stone, knowing that they are committing murder. Objecting to this tradition of being stoned to death, you were often called a fool. Many surrounding towns have already given up the lottery but not this one. Old Man Warner said, “next thing you know they will go back to living in caves…”(Jackson 240). This is showing that people of an older age are the ones who are wanting to carry on with this tradition, but they younger ones…

Linking Detrimental Traditions to The Lottery Influential, award-winning author Shirley Jackson depicts a dystopian society in her world-renowned short story “The Lottery”. Jackson irrefutably illustrates how society can follow antiquated traditions to their detriment; consequently, empowering readers to form cogent connections to equivalently destructive traditions. Calamitous practices are present in multifarious countries in contemporary society: the tradition of female genital mutilation,…

In Shirley Jackson’s deceiving short story “The Lottery,” an annual lottery is held by the community of a small town. Making the story deceiving, Jackson ends with the townspeople stoning the “winner” of the lottery to death. The annual lottery is a tradition the town has held for as long as the townspeople can remember. Although tradition has often been perceived as a positive idea, in “The Lottery,” it is the opposite. Tradition has caused the townspeople to become violent and inhumane, and…

Delacroix and Tessie Hutchinson at the beginning of the story seem to get along perfectly fine. Tessie arrives late to the town square and Mrs. Delacroix greets her very nicely. “Mrs. Delacroix, who stood next to her and they both laughed softly.” (Paragraph 8) Despite the fact they get along, when Tessie “wins” at the end, Mrs. Delacroix grabs a stone so large and so big she has to hold it with her both hands, while she also rushes to the front of the stoning to stone Tessie to death. It’s a…