The meaningless ceremony in “ The Lottery” In 1940s, a ceremony has been hold for long times among some villages in America. The ceremony was meaningless and silly. People in that time was ignorant and numb. The story “ The lottery” written by Shirley Jackson perfectly described the special ceremony during that time. In “The lottery”, Jackson told us how the ceremony looks like in details. The story shows us how the ceremony is meaningless, and what people act in that ceremony, which reflect the ignorant, cruel, numb, and darkness society in 1940s in America. As a small town which has only about 300 people located in America during 1940s. People in this village hold the ceremony once a year, and everybody have to attend in it. They
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The villagers in the town have changed a lot of traditions in the ceremony: “so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded ”(2). They change the clip of wood to slips of paper, and also leave out some complicated part of the ceremony:“ but years ago this part of the ritual had been allowed to lapse ” (2). People hold it differently than before, they made the ceremony shorter and simpler, “until now it was felt necessary only for the official to speak to each person approaching ” (2). Jackson use details in the story to show us that if people can give up their tradition in the ceremony, why not the ceremony itself. The villagers don’t rally care about this ceremony. Thus, prohibit it will not up-site villagers down. However, nobody in the village really think about …show more content…
The ceremony can’t effect their emotion. Jackson mention that the ceremony took place in the late June, which is the time school finished, children just get off from the school: “and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them” (1). In the story, Mrs totally forgot the ceremony day, so she came to the square where the ceremony took place late: “‘Clean forgot what day it was’” (2). Furthermore, before the ceremony began, people talked to each other like usual in a common day, man talked about cultivate, children talked about school, nobody discuss the
The villagers in the town have changed a lot of traditions in the ceremony: “so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded ”(2). They change the clip of wood to slips of paper, and also leave out some complicated part of the ceremony:“ but years ago this part of the ritual had been allowed to lapse ” (2). People hold it differently than before, they made the ceremony shorter and simpler, “until now it was felt necessary only for the official to speak to each person approaching ” (2). Jackson use details in the story to show us that if people can give up their tradition in the ceremony, why not the ceremony itself. The villagers don’t rally care about this ceremony. Thus, prohibit it will not up-site villagers down. However, nobody in the village really think about …show more content…
The ceremony can’t effect their emotion. Jackson mention that the ceremony took place in the late June, which is the time school finished, children just get off from the school: “and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them” (1). In the story, Mrs totally forgot the ceremony day, so she came to the square where the ceremony took place late: “‘Clean forgot what day it was’” (2). Furthermore, before the ceremony began, people talked to each other like usual in a common day, man talked about cultivate, children talked about school, nobody discuss the