Stoning

first being the above reason, fear, and the second being because, to the community, in order for them all to be happy, one of them must die. No one seems to feel any sympathy or regret for their traditions, in fact, they seem to sickeningly enjoy stoning their neighbor to death, even giving Little Davy Hutchinson a pebble to throw at his…

take his friend, Lennie’s life or else Curley would have made Lennie suffer a slow painful death (Steinbeck). There are many ways to die some ways are more extreme than others. Furthermore, there are many forms of death such as: murder, hanging, stoning, pressing and illnesses. According to Schonfeld,…

thief, crucifixion, and public executions (Ball, 1955). Current third world countries are not as humane as the United States and practice harsh, tortuous punishments to deter individuals from committing crime initially or repeating a crime, including stoning, honor crimes, body burnings, and lashing with a whip. Society continues to deter the individual element by modifying human perceptions with deterrent strategies that focuses on the punishment or threat of…

“The Veldt” and “The Lottery” have some things in common. However, there are only a few major similarities that I have noted in both stories that show up many times. These stories were both written on or before 1950, right after World War 2. Knowing that they were predicting the future after that horrendous war, they seemed to be very biased in their opinion of our today. Both stories bring a gothic feel to them as someone dies in both of them for some reason that benefits someone else in the…

Capital Punishment. In a world that is rapidly heading towards the future, this ancient, barbaric form of slaughter remains. It must be abolished in order to prevent the unwarranted murder of more innocents, at the hands of the governments whom still partake in this criminal act. When broken down into its simplest form, capital punishment is a person taking the life of another, better known as murder. Having been told the irrefutable truth since childhood that murder is wrong, wouldn’t one…

Symbolism of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” The short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is about a small town that has a lottery, on June 27th, every year. All the citizens seem excited and amped up for this yearly occasion that Mr. Summers is in charge of. Though as the story progresses and comes to an end, it can be seen that this lottery is not something you want to win. These events of the story closely resemble the actions that took place in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. With the way Mr…

Acceptance or Discrimination? The texts- “What of this Goldfish do you wish?”, “The Lottery”, and “The American Flag Stands for Tolerance”- can be viewed as acceptance or discrimination. According to Google, acceptance is the action or process of being received as adequate and discrimination is the unjust prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. The theme of accepting others or discriminating is shown in each of the…

What if someone told you, you had to dress a certain way? What if someone told you, you can’t go to school? What if someone told you, you can’t work here? Some women have been killed for disobeying these rules. If someone has told you any of these things, then you might be an Iranian woman. Since most people can remember not just Iranian women but women in the Middle East have had a difficult life. A lot of these women do not have their basic human rights. Sure things have gotten a little better…

First, I need to preface this paper with why I chose this disturbing research. One, I am fascinated with the differences in personalities and when personalities form. How do our childhoods help form who we become as adults? Does our childhood determine whether we become serial sexual murders or law-abiding citizens? Secondly, I push myself to remove the “rose colored glasses” which I unfortunately tend to wear most of the time. The reality, there are horrible people in this world, the Devil’s…

In English class, we had read so many different books from all over the world; each style unique to the authors. I feel like when we read books in English, it was the time that I felt most comfortable because of the way I could get so involved in the story. For example in “The Book Thief”, (My favourite book we read in English too!) It was so beautifully told that you can’t help getting so involved in the story, especially emotionally. When a character dies, I feel so dismal because you had…