The Traditional Rituals
In the story "The Lottery" Michelle Jackson provides readers with detailed descriptions of how people can follow ritual traditions so blindly without even thinking about how much sense it really makes to follow such traditions, or how it affects them or their loved ones. The name of the title makes you think that this story is about drawing numbers and winning a prize, but to my surprise it is about how small villages take part in a tradition, ritual every year to be stoned to death one of their own in a town of approximately three hundred people. The villagers do not know how the lottery began many generations ago, but seems to be more interested in the act, keeping the ritual alive and preserving the tradition.
The villagers’ excitement of the lottery outweighs the grief and consciousness of putting a loved one to death in this small close knit village. The villagers haven’t seriously considered change, or trying to end the lottery, because no one is forcing them to keep this ritual. They just continue to …show more content…
The lottery has been happening in the village for as long as anyone can remember. It is a tradition and a ritual that no one has thought to question or ask for any reason, why are we doing this? The villagers are completely faithful to it, or, at least, they believe that they are and even though some of the lottery have been tainted and other villages did away with it over the years, but in this village the lottery remains, simply because there has forever been a lottery. The outcome of this tradition is that everyone becomes party to stone a person on an annual basis. The lottery is a prime example of what is going on in today’s society with the practice of following traditions and rituals, without asking the one question
In the story "The Lottery" Michelle Jackson provides readers with detailed descriptions of how people can follow ritual traditions so blindly without even thinking about how much sense it really makes to follow such traditions, or how it affects them or their loved ones. The name of the title makes you think that this story is about drawing numbers and winning a prize, but to my surprise it is about how small villages take part in a tradition, ritual every year to be stoned to death one of their own in a town of approximately three hundred people. The villagers do not know how the lottery began many generations ago, but seems to be more interested in the act, keeping the ritual alive and preserving the tradition.
The villagers’ excitement of the lottery outweighs the grief and consciousness of putting a loved one to death in this small close knit village. The villagers haven’t seriously considered change, or trying to end the lottery, because no one is forcing them to keep this ritual. They just continue to …show more content…
The lottery has been happening in the village for as long as anyone can remember. It is a tradition and a ritual that no one has thought to question or ask for any reason, why are we doing this? The villagers are completely faithful to it, or, at least, they believe that they are and even though some of the lottery have been tainted and other villages did away with it over the years, but in this village the lottery remains, simply because there has forever been a lottery. The outcome of this tradition is that everyone becomes party to stone a person on an annual basis. The lottery is a prime example of what is going on in today’s society with the practice of following traditions and rituals, without asking the one question