Stoned

The Lottery. Have you ever read the lottery? They have to get together every summer for a drawing. Most of the people doesn’t really want to do the drawing. They all have to go. It’s in summer. Most people want the tradition to end. Why do they even do the drawing? They all have to go and they do stuff they don’t even know why. They have piles of stones in the corner. They seem all happy. They all come with their families. The original paraphernalia for the lottery it was lost long ago. They…

I will be doing a close reading on, “The Lottery”, and the text that I chose is above which is when one of the characters ended up getting stoned after playing the lottery. At first the story started off with a nice setting, it was very descriptive and it gave the audience a sense of feeling that the story was going to be one that ended with a happy ending, but instead it was a tragic one. The detailed words that were used in the beginning of the story were used to get our attention, for…

Lottery do the tradition without say that it is wrong. The Lottery’s tradition’s power is strong that people just do what they are supposed to do. Tessie tried to make excuses when she won the lottery but the tradition was to powerful and she was stoned anyway. The tradition’s power overpowered everybody’s perspective. The Lottery’s theme was power of tradition because it was to powerful for everybody else to speak what they think of the lottery and the reason why they should stop the lottery.…

of when they chose who they stoned. Mrs. Hutchinson constantly said “It wasn’t fair! (629)” right before she was stoned, but was told to shut up or to accept her fate. In the Stanford experiment, the prisoners were ignored, dehumanized, and even had been dragged, stripped naked, and shot with fire extinguishers. This is relatable to Mrs. Hutchinson’s experience in a way because she was dehumanized once she was chosen to be stoned. No one listened to her, they and stoned her to death without any…

The villagers are stoned to death in the lottery. Tell tale heart the old man was stabbed and did not move or breath. The themes are similar because people die in both stories. In The Lottery and the Tell Tale Heart the villagers and the old man die. The villagers die if there is a black dot on their piece paper in The Lottery. The old man died because of his hideous eye. The themes are different because of how the characters die. Throughout the story the villagers are stoned to death. In the…

tradition of all the people going to the square and there’s a black box. Each person gets to do this “Lottery” and pick a piece of paper from the box, but when someone gets pick from that drawing, instead of winning something they are chosen to get stoned to death by the people in the village. • This argument is being supported to which that maybe that there are more people living in the village since it had a small population, but now has over three hundred people. Maybe this tradition from…

Many Americans believe marijuana should be legalized for all uses. There are also Americans who do not think marijuana should be legalized. There are many reasons why marijuana should be illegal, from harming individuals to leading to other drugs becoming legal. Some may disagree by saying marijuana is for someone’s own enjoyment and does not harm anyone else. Or saying legalizing marijuana will not harm the society, but will help it. These are a few points made, you may agree, disagree, or just…

corn be heavy soon….soon we’d all be back to eating stewed chickweed and acorns.” Consequently, this superstition cannot be a tradition, since the majority of the population in the city are afraid of winning the lottery, as they do not want to get stoned to death. If they considered it a tradition,…

upon her. (5). And this was when Ms. Hutchinson gets stoned to death. The quotes show similarities because first the both stories starts with an ironic title. In “Tell-Tale…

many similarities. The lottery is a tradition they did to sacrifice a person and stone them to death, although its fiction it is based on reality. Stone throwing in India is similar to the lottery because people also sacrafice themselves and gets stoned to death by the other oponent. In the following paragraphs I am going to discuss the comparison between The lottery and Stone throwing in India: An annual Bash. The Lottery and Stone throwing in India: Annual bash both shares a…