Everyone keeps secrets, it can be a small secret that won’t have any consequences or a massive secret that can cause more problems for than its worth. In the short story “The Lottery”, a theme throughout the story is that a secret kept too long will soon be told and can have a horrible outcome to the person who is keeping the secret or someone that is unaware of the secret. This theme can be found in other short stories, popular movies and even real situations that end up being dangerous because of a dark secret. A story compared to the Lottery 's continuous theme of a dark, untold secret that can have repercussions till the end is, “The Murders in Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe. This short story by Poe is most known for is mystery that
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The Lottery theme that secrets can have horrible outcomes and even cause death. This can be found in real life events as well. One tragic event that happened because of a dark secret kept from society is the closing of Willow Brook State School. This state school wasn’t actually a school, just a fancy name to hide the evil secrets behind closed doors. Willow Brook State School in Staten Island was a “school” that meant to help out children and adults with disabilities. But it was more of snake pit that former senator Robert Kennedy referred it to. Most families who sent their loved ones to this institution had no idea of the mistreatment. The school encountered a massive overcrowding. Willow Brook was only meant to hold up to 4,000 “students” that went beyond 6,000. The children and adults were abuse, neglected and naked. They only had minimal feeding time of 30 minutes. Also, there were so many children and adults living there at Willow Brook, clothing was in limited supply. So most the disable living there were naked. They even went as far as injecting the disable with Hepatitis to experiment new vaccines on them. The society in the 1960s ignored the disable and left them in these types of intuitions. They became society’s dark little secret. The journalist who shed light about what was happening at Willow Brook State School was Geraldo Rivera. In 1972 he did an investigative report about the conditions and mistreatment. When the broadcast aired all over New York, society dark secret was out in the open for all to see. The families were mortified by the harm done to the people that they loved. Society also felt guilty about how they let this dehumanization happen. It wasn’t till a whole decade late in 1987 that the “school” was finally shut down. Even though the secret was out about Willow Brook State school the abuse still happened. This is like the Lottery theme, that
The Lottery theme that secrets can have horrible outcomes and even cause death. This can be found in real life events as well. One tragic event that happened because of a dark secret kept from society is the closing of Willow Brook State School. This state school wasn’t actually a school, just a fancy name to hide the evil secrets behind closed doors. Willow Brook State School in Staten Island was a “school” that meant to help out children and adults with disabilities. But it was more of snake pit that former senator Robert Kennedy referred it to. Most families who sent their loved ones to this institution had no idea of the mistreatment. The school encountered a massive overcrowding. Willow Brook was only meant to hold up to 4,000 “students” that went beyond 6,000. The children and adults were abuse, neglected and naked. They only had minimal feeding time of 30 minutes. Also, there were so many children and adults living there at Willow Brook, clothing was in limited supply. So most the disable living there were naked. They even went as far as injecting the disable with Hepatitis to experiment new vaccines on them. The society in the 1960s ignored the disable and left them in these types of intuitions. They became society’s dark little secret. The journalist who shed light about what was happening at Willow Brook State School was Geraldo Rivera. In 1972 he did an investigative report about the conditions and mistreatment. When the broadcast aired all over New York, society dark secret was out in the open for all to see. The families were mortified by the harm done to the people that they loved. Society also felt guilty about how they let this dehumanization happen. It wasn’t till a whole decade late in 1987 that the “school” was finally shut down. Even though the secret was out about Willow Brook State school the abuse still happened. This is like the Lottery theme, that