There are many different kinds of people in the world due to how their parents bring them up. Parents often try to do their best when they have a child but there can be slip ups, or just flat out mistakes. Sometimes parents will believe that they are raising a good child, when actually they are just going along with the flow of society, which is not always a good thing. In Jodi Picoult’s The Storyteller, one main character is Reiner Hartmann, who was part of the Nazi party, during World War II. The reader learns early in the book that he did not necessarily kill Jews because he thought they were a problem. In the article “Athlete Activism Should Be Cheered”by Terence Moore, the reader learns about how Colin Kaepernick is being “blackballed”.
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The player hase no control over whether they win or not, other than buying more chances. In Jackson’s take on “The Lottery”, people’s luck still decides their fate and everyone goes along with the results. Tessie, the main character is running away from a crowd when “A stone hit her on the of the head” (Jackson 8). That stone was the first to hit her that day, and it was thrown by a seventy-seven year old man. The stones to follow were from people of all ages, because everyone in that community had learned from a young age that that is how the lottery is played. If the communities ancestors had dressed up in funny outfits or even committed homicides for holiday, the future civilians would surely do the same, as history repeats itself through generations. The mood of the crowd was very dull and boring as “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions: most of them were quiet” (Jackson 3). The people of the community knew that someone was going to die that day, yet they were relatively quiet. This is because they were so used to it, as it was an annual occurrence that they witnessed every year since their birth. Killing someone became second thought, even though it should have never had been a thought at
The player hase no control over whether they win or not, other than buying more chances. In Jackson’s take on “The Lottery”, people’s luck still decides their fate and everyone goes along with the results. Tessie, the main character is running away from a crowd when “A stone hit her on the of the head” (Jackson 8). That stone was the first to hit her that day, and it was thrown by a seventy-seven year old man. The stones to follow were from people of all ages, because everyone in that community had learned from a young age that that is how the lottery is played. If the communities ancestors had dressed up in funny outfits or even committed homicides for holiday, the future civilians would surely do the same, as history repeats itself through generations. The mood of the crowd was very dull and boring as “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions: most of them were quiet” (Jackson 3). The people of the community knew that someone was going to die that day, yet they were relatively quiet. This is because they were so used to it, as it was an annual occurrence that they witnessed every year since their birth. Killing someone became second thought, even though it should have never had been a thought at