Summary Of The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
Current Event
In the recent article on CNN News, Jethro Mullen reports of a woman in Afghanistan sentenced to death by stoning after an accusation adultery. The article, “Woman stoned to death in Afghanistan over accusation of adultery”, reports of a 19-year-old woman named Rokhshana who was in a forced marriage, and as a result, fled away with another man. They were caught by Taliban leader of the village and he ordered Rokhshana to be stoned to death. Joyenda, one of two female governors in Afghanistan said she asked President Ashraf Ghani for reinforcements to help places with similar situations, but she does not know if she will have enough security forces or weapons. This means that the government might be powerless to respond. Attack …show more content…
This story is about a small village gathering on June 27 every year to host a lottery. No one knows why the village preserves the tradition, although the village elder claims it is a superstition for good harvest. The children collect rocks and pile them in the square. All the villagers gather in one place and a man named Mr. Summers, who runs the lottery, holds a black box. As he called all the names of the villagers, they will come up and grab a slip of paper. As everyone opens their paper, a woman named Tessie finds that her paper was the only one that contains a black dot, the symbol of death. The villagers then proceed stone her to death as she screams that it is not fair, because she did nothing wrong. The community persecutes a random individual, showing that the victim is not guilty except for choosing the wrong slip of paper. This is similar to Rokhshana’s situation because she did nothing wrong as she tried to find her freedom. Instead, she was murdered brutally even though her male partner, who ran away with her, was not put to death, which shows a huge gap in the treatment between genders. Death was an extreme punishment as the woman only wanted to escape her unhappy situation. This situation shows the grave injustice in the system which exists both in the fictional story and in the real
In the recent article on CNN News, Jethro Mullen reports of a woman in Afghanistan sentenced to death by stoning after an accusation adultery. The article, “Woman stoned to death in Afghanistan over accusation of adultery”, reports of a 19-year-old woman named Rokhshana who was in a forced marriage, and as a result, fled away with another man. They were caught by Taliban leader of the village and he ordered Rokhshana to be stoned to death. Joyenda, one of two female governors in Afghanistan said she asked President Ashraf Ghani for reinforcements to help places with similar situations, but she does not know if she will have enough security forces or weapons. This means that the government might be powerless to respond. Attack …show more content…
This story is about a small village gathering on June 27 every year to host a lottery. No one knows why the village preserves the tradition, although the village elder claims it is a superstition for good harvest. The children collect rocks and pile them in the square. All the villagers gather in one place and a man named Mr. Summers, who runs the lottery, holds a black box. As he called all the names of the villagers, they will come up and grab a slip of paper. As everyone opens their paper, a woman named Tessie finds that her paper was the only one that contains a black dot, the symbol of death. The villagers then proceed stone her to death as she screams that it is not fair, because she did nothing wrong. The community persecutes a random individual, showing that the victim is not guilty except for choosing the wrong slip of paper. This is similar to Rokhshana’s situation because she did nothing wrong as she tried to find her freedom. Instead, she was murdered brutally even though her male partner, who ran away with her, was not put to death, which shows a huge gap in the treatment between genders. Death was an extreme punishment as the woman only wanted to escape her unhappy situation. This situation shows the grave injustice in the system which exists both in the fictional story and in the real