How could one
justify killing someone just because they drew a card? The story "The
Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is about the barbarism people would do for the
sake of tradition. An example would be the entire lottery overall. It is about
stoning a person just because that they drew the wrong ticket, and the refusal
to get rid of the practice because of tradition. "There always has been a
lottery"
Old man Warner is
one of the worst offenders of following tradition blindly. He is 77 years old,
and every year there has been one. When he hears that another village plans to
give up the lottery, he laughs and calls them a bunch of crazy fools. He calls
young people stupid because they thought rationally. It was amazing back then
that people would kill someone for the sake of tradition.
I liked the way the first paragraph was written. The paragraph topics weren't very clear because they had different topics in them.
ReplyDeleteI liked the intro, really good, but the topics for the main paragraph wasn't exactly clear. Overall nice piece, it's probably better than mine.
ReplyDeleteI thought it good overall. But it could have been better if you told how it relates to other writings (from different authors).
ReplyDeletei like all the descriptive words,but paragraphs could be a little bit more clear, it was awesome overall
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