Traditions

Foods Within Traditions In her article, “Sweet, Sour, and Resentful,” Firoozeh Dumas directs us through on how her mom readies a feast. She gives us detailed description on how her mom cooks the food she is planning to serve the guests by starting out from the grocery till the part that the food is ready to be served. She writes about how because of their Iranian traditions they have to prepare a Persian feast for their newcomer friends and family, yet her mother always brought happiness to…

In “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, tradition is crucial in society. The townspeople are expected to stone one person every year, no one questions this cruel practice due to tradition. The black box in the story was an important symbol. The black box was the box that the townspeople chose slips of paper out of to determine who was to be stoned. The other important symbol was the lottery alone. The lottery was the process as a whole. The symbols of the black box and the lottery itself, further…

History and tradition are the loudest and major voices heard in Mariama Ba’s “So Long a Letter.” The themes mentioned below are based on tradition, followed by the rich history behind them which is what Mariama Ba bases her characters on. She is trying to show us how these traditions and the history behind it affect people and if it can be changed. The hair removal tradition in the Senegalese culture, for instance, has been going on for as long as anyone could remember. “Her behavior is…

What is Americanism? The love of American traditions and institutions? The love of American values? It’s all of these and much more. Americanism to me is the love of our founding ideals, great traditions, and the institutions that uphold all of these, but also our ability to create new traditions, to learn from our mistakes, and change. The US was founded on the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This last one to me is the most important not only because of the historical…

The Narration of Death: How Traditions Narrate Death and its Effect on Community Throughout the semester, we as a class have examined numerous different religions and the traditions they follow pertaining to death and the afterlife. In many cases, death is seen as an extremely simple process: the dead gets buried and then you send sympathy to those close to the deceased. However, this is very much not the case. Each of these traditions works on two levels: they are built around honoring the…

Traditional art has continued in Asia to this day, but rapid change has been taking place. In many countries across Asia, the problem artists are finding is getting rid of tradition and breaking out of that shell. While many are holding on strong to traditions like calligraphy, and Chinese porcelain ceramic making, others are finding a way to fuse the two together. Now artists are finding ways to use symbols and hints of traditional-based art forms to send political, economic, and…

but what if winning meant death? Tradition is more important to some than others. The citizens of a small village in the short story “The Lottery” value tradition enough that they would kill one of their own every year to refrain from breaking it. To these people, human sacrifice seems like going to the doctor, or doing your taxes, rather than murder; it is a yearly task that they want to get done and over with so they can go back to their everyday lives. Tradition has made it not just…

“The Lottery” Essay Through generations we follow a certain traditions without thought. Where the traditions come from and what they meant originally never come to mind. Those moments we never stop to think about the impact it has. In her short story "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson 's theme of the deadly consequences of refusing to critically examine a long-standing tradition is supported through her use of character, setting, climax, and conflict. “Jackson was born on December 14, 1919 in San…

Shirley Jackson’s symbolism in The Lottery portrays manhood’s nature as meaningless due to a savage tradition. On literature, symbolism is important to understand foreshadowing and distinctions. In some cases, symbols can have a cultural significance and non-changing for the characters in the story. However, sometimes the meaning of the symbols is deeply hidden and understood as the story continues. Characters in literature are fundamental to understand the story being told by either a character…

Did you know that there are many, many old, valuable traditions that the 7th graders at Camp Tapawingo carry out each year? These traditions take place during the campfire behind the lodge that we ate and slept in. There were two instances where we were using the campfire. Once with just our tribe and Mr. Milski making s’mores, the other being with the entire group while carrying out the traditions. We started the traditions at approximately 11:00 pm on September 15th, 2016. We did this by…