Oral tradition

village tradition which ends with one of the villagers being chased down and stoned by her friends, family, and neighbors. Such an outrageous and violent ritual must have strong reasoning behind it; however, none of the villagers really know why they do it. The lottery is a tradition that has been going on for years and is generally accepted. Shirley Jackson uses generational conflict in “The Lottery” to show that following tradition can cause motivation to be blinded.6 The loss of traditions…

ancient ritual that says their crops will grow better when someone gets stoned (human sacrifice). The community members do not even remember the purpose of this tradition or where it came from but yet they still participate in it every year. This story presents many themes. One of the major themes of this story surrounds a tradition. The tradition…

The Fate of Tessie Hutchinson The term lottery creates a vision of winning something of value. In the short story, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, Jackson took the meaning of the lottery and put a dark twist to it. Jackson gives an everyday feel to the story as if the annual ceremony “the lottery” is a peaceful day for the townspeople. The reader infers that this is a positive outcome based on society’s understanding of what a lottery is; however, the lottery takes an unforeseen twist that…

Folklore are beliefs and ideas that are constantly changing throughout television or any source of media because Shameless was created by Paul Abbott, it is a comedy-drama remake based on the British series. The show centers on a dysfunctional family which consists of six siblings of Chicago, Illinois who struggle with their alcoholic father and estranged mother. Although many reality television shows exist to follow standard entertainment, Shameless can be argued as a modern folklore. The show,…

Korina’s betrothed was reported to be a brutal and ugly man. Discovering this as the truth she runs away only to find herself stranded and alone in an alien dimension. Five years have passed when she is compelled to visit Minerva’s Mystic Museum where ‘the powers that be’ are about to intercede and give her the chance to change that destiny. Korina is sent home where she discovers it is the morning of her wedding day. She has done a lot of growing up in the five long and lonely years of her…

Vietnamese community’s rendition of some of the events of Vietnamese New Year’s, or Tết, firsthand. Centuries ago when the Vietnamese culture became independent from the Chinese, they took with them some of the Chinese traditions. Celebrating the lunar New Year is one of the important traditions taken from…

Ajima, also known as “The honorable potter’s wife, has always been very compassionate to Tree-ear since the beginning. She nourished Tree-ear at the midday meal along with her husband. In addition, she provided him with clothing. Ajima used to be known as, “The honorable potter’s wife”. More frequently, she is known as Ajima. On page 91 in A Single Shard, it says “The second is that from now on, you will call me Ajima”. Ajima was closed off at the beginning. She was mainly in the home, or…

others. In that stage, written language had not yet been invented. It is much more difficult to define How Things Are. Once the transition from orality began, literacy intermingled with orality, and since then the literate world has never cast the oral world away. How Things Are is essentially the most recent stop in the long journey that is How Things Were in Between, and perhaps it will always be. Nevertheless, this paper provide…

an example of how traditions do not always benefit the majority. Traditions can bring the family together, and create a sense of communion with the family. Each tradition has a role within the family, whether to create a sense of togetherness, or if to imprison the other family members. These traditions play a vital role in the novel, and change throughout the growth and decrease of the family. The traditions remain a constant throughout the turmoil in the novel. These traditions have many…

hold on to traditions and values or to move forward with modernization. In the novel Keeper N’ Me by Richard Wagamese, the cultural traditions of the Anishanabe become very important to Garnet Raven who is a disconnected member of the tribe. The major theme in the Movie, The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwich is this very issue: tradition versus modernization. The protagonist of this movie Nathan Algren played by Tom Cruise, become disillusioned with using war to suppress tradition and gains…