There had always been conflict in our world. Society can learn and grow from these conflicts or be destroyed by them. “We, as humans, must be willing to accept people who are different than ourselves.” In three stories “ The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, Clock “bomb” by Associated Press ,and Obama’s speech and gun violence by Associated press, the topic of conflicts between different cultures is explored. This essay will look at that those conflicts were, how they were resolved, and if they were resolved successfully.
In the story “The Lottery” By Shirley Jackson many conflicts happen throughout the story. It starts off in a beautiful summer day, a day just like any other. The whole town is taking part in a lottery they have done for many years. This isn’t a lottery we are used to seeing. There is the town people’s names in …show more content…
He is a fourteen year old Muslim boy that took a homemade clock to school and teachers thought it was a bomb. The teachers made the cops get involved and he also got suspended. I don’t think this was right because it was something that is helping his learning. Teachers always say to do work outside of class and that will help you learn more. That was he was doing showing his engineering teacher what he had done. His dad stated “just wants to invent good things for mankind”. (page 2) He was doing no harm, I also don’t believe he should’ve been suspended. They also got the cops involved they could’ve called his engineering teacher down and asked him if he knew anything about it. Although his engineering teacher did warn him about it I don’t believe that it would’ve been the same if he was white. For being a different color, having a different religion, or acting different all these things can create conflicts in your culture. Although this was resolved it wasn’t resolved in the way the boy would have thought and I don’t believe it was resolved
In the story “The Lottery” By Shirley Jackson many conflicts happen throughout the story. It starts off in a beautiful summer day, a day just like any other. The whole town is taking part in a lottery they have done for many years. This isn’t a lottery we are used to seeing. There is the town people’s names in …show more content…
He is a fourteen year old Muslim boy that took a homemade clock to school and teachers thought it was a bomb. The teachers made the cops get involved and he also got suspended. I don’t think this was right because it was something that is helping his learning. Teachers always say to do work outside of class and that will help you learn more. That was he was doing showing his engineering teacher what he had done. His dad stated “just wants to invent good things for mankind”. (page 2) He was doing no harm, I also don’t believe he should’ve been suspended. They also got the cops involved they could’ve called his engineering teacher down and asked him if he knew anything about it. Although his engineering teacher did warn him about it I don’t believe that it would’ve been the same if he was white. For being a different color, having a different religion, or acting different all these things can create conflicts in your culture. Although this was resolved it wasn’t resolved in the way the boy would have thought and I don’t believe it was resolved