Lottery

Lottery

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  • Date Submitted: 10/28/2008 5:24 AM
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The Lottery (by Shirley Jackson) conducted by: christine may merilles


In this world a person can tell truth or lie. The truth can hurt or it can make a person happy. Lies can make a person feel happy or can hurt a person. There are many situations that we are obligated to lie and tell the truth. Either one can also hurt a person physically or even emotionally. It is alright to lie because it the right way, but sometime men are blinded by lies when “truths has no meaning when men believe only what they want to believe”? Why human often blinded by tradition even when the right thing to do is seems to be the wrong thing to do?
“The Lottery” a short story, as I’ve read it the first thing that comes to my mind is a big sum of money contrary to the authors meaning where the lottery has its bad issue. I’ve seen both the literal and metaphorical meaning of the story. The story centre’s on traditions no matter how bizarre or out of this world it is. The story began in one beautiful summer day. “The flowers are blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green”. Were it provide the positive outlook of the story and adding to the atmosphere, is the gathering of the villager at the town square. All folks are coming together in some what it seem a festival, or some sort of celebration. I was unprepared to what seems to what I’m going to read after all, The men in Jackson’s short story” The lottery” are speaking of planting and rain tractors. It does refer in somewhat why the ritual is being performed in the story that may have something to do with the villager’s harvest; the lottery struggles against the protest, by staying resolute. "Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box as stated in the story, they still remembered to use stones." The ending of the story came as quite a surprise as the conflict is resolved with Tessie being stoned. I was unaware that the story will lead in something inhumanly act. The story deals for...

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