The Ideal Thing In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
Can winning a lottery be the ideal thing that could happen in one day? The short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is all contrary. This story starts of as a pleasant, beautiful summer day in a small village. Where the children are picking up and accumulating rocks, the women are gossiping and the men are telling jokes. A beautiful day to play the lottery,right? However, this is not a lottery you want to win. Two characters that impacted me the most from this short story are the Mr.Warner and Tessie Hutchinson.
This village has the tradition of playing the lottery once each year. Mr.Warner is called old man Warner because he has lived through multiple lottery games. The actual lottery isn’t a good thing though because in this lottery if …show more content…
These two characters have allot to do in this story. Old man Warner doesn’t want to modify their traditions all throughout the story. He thinks that anyone who wants to alter the tradition is insane. As for Tessie Hutchinson she was described as a very outgoing person. She finished of opposing the tradition when she found out that she had won the lottery. She yelled out that the picking of the lottery wasn’t fair because she didn’t get enough time to pick. She even had the courage to offer her daughter’s life instead of her own.
In conclusion these characters never opposed the traditions of their community and that was their mistake but also the people in the community for not standing up and saying something about it. In the end every tradition should be questioned at one point. Everyone has different traditions and most don’t even know why they celebrate what they celebrate. Some traditions started of with satanic beginnings. It’s crazy for a person to continue a tradition without knowing the history of that belief. If someone has the possibility of getting hurt in any type of way then that tradition should be questioned on why is it still going on. Maybe even traditions that we have to this
This village has the tradition of playing the lottery once each year. Mr.Warner is called old man Warner because he has lived through multiple lottery games. The actual lottery isn’t a good thing though because in this lottery if …show more content…
These two characters have allot to do in this story. Old man Warner doesn’t want to modify their traditions all throughout the story. He thinks that anyone who wants to alter the tradition is insane. As for Tessie Hutchinson she was described as a very outgoing person. She finished of opposing the tradition when she found out that she had won the lottery. She yelled out that the picking of the lottery wasn’t fair because she didn’t get enough time to pick. She even had the courage to offer her daughter’s life instead of her own.
In conclusion these characters never opposed the traditions of their community and that was their mistake but also the people in the community for not standing up and saying something about it. In the end every tradition should be questioned at one point. Everyone has different traditions and most don’t even know why they celebrate what they celebrate. Some traditions started of with satanic beginnings. It’s crazy for a person to continue a tradition without knowing the history of that belief. If someone has the possibility of getting hurt in any type of way then that tradition should be questioned on why is it still going on. Maybe even traditions that we have to this