How To Write An Essay On The Lottery Tradition
The town people show their strong loyalty on tradition manifest itself in “The Lottery”. The plot of this story is simple but thought-provoking. In a clear and sunny summer morning, the people of a village began to gather in a square to attend a traditional activity, the lottery. Mr. Summer is the host of the activity, Mr. Graves is the postmaster and Old Man Warner as a reminder of it. Everyone has to attend it and has an equal chance to be the “lucky” one and then this one will be stoned to death. At the end of the story, Tessie Hutchinson became the “lucky” one and probably died. “The whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o’clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner.”(Shirley, 1948, p91) “ ‘All
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“ ‘some places have already quit lotteries,’ Mrs. Adams said. ‘Nothing but trouble in that,’ Old Man Warner said stoutly. ‘Pack of young fools’” (Shirley, 1948, p94) the Old Man Warner obviously is the oldest man as well as the most loyal one to this tradition in this town, nobody will fight him, they respect him. Moreover, in this village, children are the youngest but the most enjoy in the lottery, they pick up the stone and wait for the final “reward”. They don’t understand that “the lottery” is a bad thing, they just think about themselves and the “funny”. In this short fiction, it’s worthy to mention Mrs. Delacroix and Mr. Hutchinson. Mrs. Delacroix is Tessie’s friend and Mr. Hutchinson is Tessie’s husband, but when they face the truth that Tessie is to sacrifice, they easily accept it and want to finish it quickly. “Mr. Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar. ‘Come on,’ she said, ‘Hurry up.’”(Shirley, 1948, p96) Now look at the “victim”, Tessie, she actually is not an innocent woman and she typically shows her loyalty to
“ ‘some places have already quit lotteries,’ Mrs. Adams said. ‘Nothing but trouble in that,’ Old Man Warner said stoutly. ‘Pack of young fools’” (Shirley, 1948, p94) the Old Man Warner obviously is the oldest man as well as the most loyal one to this tradition in this town, nobody will fight him, they respect him. Moreover, in this village, children are the youngest but the most enjoy in the lottery, they pick up the stone and wait for the final “reward”. They don’t understand that “the lottery” is a bad thing, they just think about themselves and the “funny”. In this short fiction, it’s worthy to mention Mrs. Delacroix and Mr. Hutchinson. Mrs. Delacroix is Tessie’s friend and Mr. Hutchinson is Tessie’s husband, but when they face the truth that Tessie is to sacrifice, they easily accept it and want to finish it quickly. “Mr. Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar. ‘Come on,’ she said, ‘Hurry up.’”(Shirley, 1948, p96) Now look at the “victim”, Tessie, she actually is not an innocent woman and she typically shows her loyalty to