Stoned

Thousands of stories are written and published every year but only few become ingrained into millions of readers minds. What makes a story so memorable? For most good books and short stories, there is always a universal message or theme that draws interest and captivates an audience. Jackson’s “The Lottery” is no exception. “The Lottery” is celebrated as one of the most controversial and brilliant short stories of the 20th century. Using characters, symbols, and irony, “The Lottery” shares…

Adultery is becoming a more popular sin as the nation grows and different cultures interact. Adultery is sexual intercourse between a married and unmarried individual. The consequences of committing adultery are more punishable to women than men. Depending on the women location, culture, and time period in the stories “Hell Heaven, No Name Woman, and The Storm,” committing adultery could be the cost of their life. In the story Hell Heaven, Boudi committed adultery by becoming emotionally…

“The Impact of Violence on Society” Violence is the use of physical force to harm a certain individual. In The Lottery, and The Watchers readers witness the wicked aftermaths of two narrow minded societies, who without question follow their “Leaders”. It is certain to say that violence has an amazingly significant impact when it comes to the psychological behaviour, the mental state, and the social attributes a certain individual will gain, from witnessing violence, no matter in which way or…

Barbara’s quote is shown in the story, “The Lottery”, by Shirly Jackson. “The Lottery is about a small village that has a strange custom. Every year, before the harvesting season, they hold a drawing, or a lottery. At the beginning of the story, it seems innocent enough, but as the story goes on, it becomes apparent that the drawing may be a little more sinister than previously believed. In a twist ending, one of the women in the town, who wins the lottery, is the target of a stoning that was…

punishable and they knew it but they did so because they did not want to get the punishment of those crimes at The Day Of Judgement . It is narrated by Abu Daud that when a man confessed that he had committed an illegal sexual act and was ordered to be stoned to death The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upn him) said : “He is more agreeable than the fragrance of musk in the eyes of Allah”…

Al-Shabab’s ideology is typically described as a brand of Salafism and Wahhabism that supports takfir, the excommunication of apostates or unbelievers. Though it has stated many goals in the past, the group fights first and foremost to create a fundamentalist Islamic state in the Horn of Africa that would include not only Somalia but also Djibouti, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Islamism and Salafism served to express commonalities and build alliances against shared enemies who happened to be world…

characters do not really need the tradition anymore. In “The Lottery,” Jackson writes about a town coming together right before the harvest, and they have a lottery. The people draw out of a box and whoever draws the slip of paper with the black dot gets stoned to death for a sacrifice. Similarly, Frost writes about two neighbors who come together to fix a wall that has been broken…

The movie Gangs of New York takes place in mid-19th century in the Five Points district located inside of New York City. The Five Points area was built on what was known as the Collect Pond; the Five Points was a very important part of the movie because this is where everyone got their fresh water. Eventually, overtime due to the amount of people immigrating here the water started to become contaminated in a short period of time. In other words, it stunk, and the place was filled with disease.…

Hung in front of a crowd, stoned in the middle of a courtyard, or guillotined, methods of crime and punishment in the Elizabethan era were very different from the practices that are executed in today’s day, varying all the way from different types of crimes to their types of punishments and the laws that have been implemented to prevent them from happening as frequently. From 1558 to 1603, people endured these horrendous punishments for typical crimes that would serve nothing more than a fine in…

My Aesthetic When I sit down and read a book, I like it to tell me all of the pieces throughout the story. It can be suspenseful, but give me all of the details. The main thing I dislike is when I am finished reading, sitting there wondering what happened. I contemplate if this or that happened and I normally do not come to a conclusion over arguing back and forth with myself about how it should have ended. These past couple weeks I have read some interesting stories. One of my favorites being…