Throughout the centuries, from ancient Greece to ancient Egypt, human sacrifices were extremely rampant and necessary. However many are not cognizant of the fact that the very reasons behind such rituals still exist in our world today. In “The Lottery,” Jackson argues that the never-changing cruel aspect of human human nature will forever secretly exist and will always be subject to control of peer pressure. Hence, Jackson shows that blindly following and accepting tradition can be unpredictable and even deadly. The townspeople have no clue behind this tradition, yet mindlessly take part in the stoning of Tessie. The stoning tradition in the “The Lottery” is more than ninety years old since the wooden box used was even older than Old Man
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The townspeople believe that doing away with the lottery could possibly bring bad weather which destroys the crops. A possible reason why the town never really gets rid of the lottery is due to the idea of “good fortune superstition” which also comes from blindly following tradition. Anyone could have altered the reason behind the lottery as it was passed down, for their was never really any written record. It quite possibly could have started as a sacrifice for the crops or it could have also started as a means to scare the townspeople from the Gods. No one really knows it originality or any of its modifications. Old Man Warner believes the lottery is held every June to yield an abundant amount of crops. It is stated “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny….. grass was richly green” (Jackson 1). The townspeople sense that June 27th is much more special than any other days, for it is the brightest and most …show more content…
Although she uses quite a shocking example, it’s a perfect representation of the ever-so hidden problem that lives in our world today. Future, the rapper, marked himself as a hip-hop artist when he started his career. When he started to become more and more popular, he started gaining a lot of attention, taking away from other rapper’s fame. Those rappers started to claim that Future’s music is not considered rap. Each artist has their own style and Future was targeted as attempting to change rap music. Although this is a very modernized context, it coherently goes along with Jackson’s barbaric stoning procedure. Both Future and Tessie have much common. Both are targeted; one gets stones thrown at them while the other gets heavily criticized. The benefits for one is increased crop outcome for the villagers while the other is increased fame for other rap artists. Jackson uses this whole arrangement of the town and stoning because it effortlessly fits into many of the problems in society today. In a very modernized world, there still are many inherently animal-like tendencies that still lie in every human
The townspeople believe that doing away with the lottery could possibly bring bad weather which destroys the crops. A possible reason why the town never really gets rid of the lottery is due to the idea of “good fortune superstition” which also comes from blindly following tradition. Anyone could have altered the reason behind the lottery as it was passed down, for their was never really any written record. It quite possibly could have started as a sacrifice for the crops or it could have also started as a means to scare the townspeople from the Gods. No one really knows it originality or any of its modifications. Old Man Warner believes the lottery is held every June to yield an abundant amount of crops. It is stated “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny….. grass was richly green” (Jackson 1). The townspeople sense that June 27th is much more special than any other days, for it is the brightest and most …show more content…
Although she uses quite a shocking example, it’s a perfect representation of the ever-so hidden problem that lives in our world today. Future, the rapper, marked himself as a hip-hop artist when he started his career. When he started to become more and more popular, he started gaining a lot of attention, taking away from other rapper’s fame. Those rappers started to claim that Future’s music is not considered rap. Each artist has their own style and Future was targeted as attempting to change rap music. Although this is a very modernized context, it coherently goes along with Jackson’s barbaric stoning procedure. Both Future and Tessie have much common. Both are targeted; one gets stones thrown at them while the other gets heavily criticized. The benefits for one is increased crop outcome for the villagers while the other is increased fame for other rap artists. Jackson uses this whole arrangement of the town and stoning because it effortlessly fits into many of the problems in society today. In a very modernized world, there still are many inherently animal-like tendencies that still lie in every human