The Lottery In June Corn Be Heavy Soon Analysis

What is her claim?
• Tradition, with its rituals, can continue mindlessly, regardless of reality. o For the village people, the lottery is something to win.
 The lottery is tradition and is just accepted.
 The lottery brings a full corn harvest (i.e., feeds the village). o The reality: winning is death by stoning to cause an unknown change.
What does she use to support her decisions?
• The village’s common acceptance of, expectations in, and nostalgia for the lottery and the change it brings to the village.
• Children and adult o Acceptance of the lottery and its rituals and rules o Knowing the vagaries of winning and shielding their minds from the truth.
 Villagers do not talk or think about it, so the real meaning does not exist.
 Villagers assume …show more content…
• The instinctive acceptance of the husband and son when the wife/mother wins.
• The towns person reciting the line “Lottery in June; corn be heavy soon” to her son; and he throws a rock at his mother, because she won the lottery.
What is most convincing/least convincing? Why?
• The video is most convincing.
• The acting gave me the feeling that the people accept this event without question. This made me ask why such acceptance to this obvious (to me) immorality.
• The script’s dialogue connected the people to one another and to the inevitable and obligatory nature of the lottery event; the lottery appears necessary for the community to survive, like a belief.
• The physical and visual flow of the action, from excited person to expectant person when preparing and going to the lottery.
• The implicit question of morality hangs in the air with the possibility of the north village eliminating the lottery, but not answered.
• The activity flows towards and culminates in the town square, the place of the lottery.
• At this point, I am wondering what happens at the