Tradition's the Chains of Change
The Lottery is about the supposition that in some cultures and societies they have some nonsensical and useless traditions, that more often than not have no logical meaning or either they are outdated or are no longer relevant to the advancement of that culture or society. Although people still maintain true to most of these outdated traditions, in this story there is one character in particular whose overwhelming sense of obligation to uphold this tradition has ruled and controlled his entire life, Old Man Warner. His unwavering belief in this senseless yearly tradition of murder (The Lottery), is it justifiable or is it fallible, are tradition’s the chains of change that bind us to the past? Although the …show more content…
Children play and gather stones the adults have idle chit chat. The black box is brought out as it always has been, but it hasn’t always been the same; parts of the ritual have been forgotten, changed or just done away with for one reason or another to the point that it has been stripped down to its bare foundations of the black box some official questions, the drawing of names, the use of stones and then the final result of the lottery; the violent and brutal murder of one their own by the whole town from the youngest to the oldest. These foundations of the tradition must have held some significance to those who had begun this tradition, but for this village no knows for what or why they murder one of their own each year not even Old Man Warner. He believes so deeply as to defend and make such outlandish statements that have no validity, for no one knows for certain what would happen if they were to quit the …show more content…
They have found the desire to look forward to a day when they no longer have the need to slaughter one of their own villagers. Old Man Warner I believe will fight tooth and nail to keep the ritual tradition of the lottery going and standing up and propagating its validity until he either gets picked in the lottery himself or he dies of old age. I have an idea though that if it had been him instead of Tessie who had been selected he just might have reacted in the same fashion as Tessie did. It makes me wonder what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot and Old Man Warner was in Tessie’s place would he accept his fate or would he protest and try and argue that the lottery was unfair? Despite the fact that in all of his seventy seven years participating in the lottery he had never pulled the black dot himself, if you ask me those are some really bad odds. He must be the luckiest man in the village. Imagine if he passed away do you think the people of the village would still hold fast to the lottery or would it
The Lottery is about the supposition that in some cultures and societies they have some nonsensical and useless traditions, that more often than not have no logical meaning or either they are outdated or are no longer relevant to the advancement of that culture or society. Although people still maintain true to most of these outdated traditions, in this story there is one character in particular whose overwhelming sense of obligation to uphold this tradition has ruled and controlled his entire life, Old Man Warner. His unwavering belief in this senseless yearly tradition of murder (The Lottery), is it justifiable or is it fallible, are tradition’s the chains of change that bind us to the past? Although the …show more content…
Children play and gather stones the adults have idle chit chat. The black box is brought out as it always has been, but it hasn’t always been the same; parts of the ritual have been forgotten, changed or just done away with for one reason or another to the point that it has been stripped down to its bare foundations of the black box some official questions, the drawing of names, the use of stones and then the final result of the lottery; the violent and brutal murder of one their own by the whole town from the youngest to the oldest. These foundations of the tradition must have held some significance to those who had begun this tradition, but for this village no knows for what or why they murder one of their own each year not even Old Man Warner. He believes so deeply as to defend and make such outlandish statements that have no validity, for no one knows for certain what would happen if they were to quit the …show more content…
They have found the desire to look forward to a day when they no longer have the need to slaughter one of their own villagers. Old Man Warner I believe will fight tooth and nail to keep the ritual tradition of the lottery going and standing up and propagating its validity until he either gets picked in the lottery himself or he dies of old age. I have an idea though that if it had been him instead of Tessie who had been selected he just might have reacted in the same fashion as Tessie did. It makes me wonder what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot and Old Man Warner was in Tessie’s place would he accept his fate or would he protest and try and argue that the lottery was unfair? Despite the fact that in all of his seventy seven years participating in the lottery he had never pulled the black dot himself, if you ask me those are some really bad odds. He must be the luckiest man in the village. Imagine if he passed away do you think the people of the village would still hold fast to the lottery or would it