Stoning

To be honest I was a little bit confused by this story. I assumed that because it was set on June 27th 1948 that the story would be about the Berlin Airlift, because that was the day that it opened. But it was really about a small town of around three hundred people on the day of the lottery. every man picks a slip of paper and the one with a black spot on it has to have their entire family draw from the papers, including that of the black spot. whoever has it get’s “stoned.” In the case of this…

Everyone has the right to believe in religion and different gods. Like the Near East society they had many gods that they turned too in times of trial and even happiness to help them and make different choices for them; they had myths to make trials easier. The Hebrew society had one god that they worshipped and spoke with in dealings with man, and they cherished life and what god gave them. These societies sound opposite of one another, but they have very many similarities. First, The Near…

mindlessly, regardless of reality. o For the village people, the lottery is something to win.  The lottery is tradition and is just accepted.  The lottery brings a full corn harvest (i.e., feeds the village). o The reality: winning is death by stoning to cause an unknown change. What does she use to support her decisions? • The village’s common acceptance of, expectations in, and nostalgia for the lottery and the change it brings to the village. • Children and adult o Acceptance of the…

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson presents irony throughout the story by showing the effect of how tradition can change a town, which also shows how government has control of the people. The town itself represents our country’s government and how much control they have over the people. Certain people throughout the story represent those in power in government and how power is distributed throughout a country, or in the story throughout a town. The objects that the people in the story obtain…

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story full of dramatic twists and turns. It begins with a sweet day, and continues onto making the readers believe there is an exciting and pleasurable tradition going on. After reading deeper, we discover this tradition is something people seem to be wary about, but don’t discover why until the ending. Shock is everything we experience once the short story is over because all along, the so called lottery, wasn’t a chance these people wanted to get or…

Life or Death Imagine you are sitting anxiously in that electric chair one breath away from dying and knowing you are innocent. This happens way too frequently in America and the government needs to open up their eyes and realize what is happening. This is changing many families and people’s lives from a slip-up from the government. Quite frankly, human lives should not be taken for granted and end as a “slip up.” Human lives are way more superior for this to keep happening. Anyways, Capital…

A Big Black Box and a Check: Both Decide Your Fate Picture this: it is payday at the end of one of the most stressful work weeks of your life. You line up with your many coworkers to collect your check and see happily paid employees smiling at the numbers printed on their magic slip of paper. You receive your check, take it out of the envelope and glance at the number on the right. Eyes flitting around the room, you realize that your check is worth significantly less than those who surround…

Early each morning, a father awakes, slips into his clothes, buckles his belt, and dashes out the door. A mother stretches her legs and shuffles toward the smell of coffee wafting up from downstairs as she plans the coming day of work. A child stirs and rubs the sleep out of their eyes. They slap the alarm clock to nullify the ringing and begin to prepare for the day of school ahead. Each family member has their own unique role in society. Men, women, and children have separate but intertwined…

Throughout the world there is many views on capital punishment, they all differ in some way. Muslim, Christian, and Jewish faiths all have traditions and reasoning for their stance on capital punishment. For, against, or undecided the way these religions feel about capital punishment helps sculpt society’s opinion. Whether or not capital punishment will completely become abolished someday, the reality is it is still very much present and will continue to be, until someone can prove otherwise.…

Had it not been Mrs. Hutchinson that won the lottery, she would most likely be participating in the stoning. Instead, since she won, she feels humiliated and shamed at the way her friends and family members have retaliated against her. “Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers…