There are many different versions of the Cinderella tale‚ but in all of them‚ there is a prince who takes the Cinderella away with him‚ and they live happily forever. “Aschenputtel” is a German folktale written by the Grimm brothers‚ and “Yeh-Shen” is the Chinese version written by Ai-Ling Louie. They are both stories about two young beautiful maidens who are treated badly by their stepmother and stepsisters. The story’s message is to teach people that goodness is always rewarded in the end. In
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Collective Mentality[edit source] The collective mentality‚ also referred to as mob mentality‚ can be defined as "the behavioral tendency of people (or other social animals) to act in unison with the group of which they are a part. This is an evolutionary adaptation that provides the mechanism for collective intelligence‚ but also explains how morally reprehensible consensus can form. Behaviors range from gang rapes and beatings to the extermination of an entire people group."[6] In the case of
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Today we are gonna do a presentation about a short story called “ The Lottery ”‚ written by Shirley Jackson. (Title and author) First of all‚ I would like to do an introduction about the author. Shirley Jackson was born December 14‚ 1919‚ into an affluent family in San Francisco‚ California‚ Jackson wanted to be a writer from an early age. She wrote poetry and kept journals throughout her childhood‚ and these writings have revealed her interest in the supernatural and superstition. A few
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Although Shirley Jackson wrote many books‚ children’s stories and humorous pieces‚ she is most remembered for her story "The Lottery." In "The Lottery" Jackson portrays the average citizens of an average village taking part in an annual sacrifice of one of their own residents. When the story was published in the New Yorker magazine in 1948‚ reader response was tremendous. People were horrified by the story and wrote to express their disgust that a tale containing a pointless‚ arbitrary‚ violent sacrifice
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Writer‚ Shirley Jackson‚ in her short story‚ The Lottery‚ conveys a twisted town superstition by killing somebody through a lottery more crops will grow. In the story‚ there is one universal symbol and that is “Old Man Warner” (Jackson 4). His function is to show tradition of the lottery and he was made a figure who is less of an individual‚ but rather more he is in for something else‚ the nostalgia days. In the story‚ there are conventional symbols‚ like the white paper symbolizes equality and
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Comparison of The Lottery and The Story of an Hour “The Story of an Hour”‚ by Kate Chopin; this story was about a wife who was told that her husband had died. The wife went through many emotions but the main emotion she went through upon hearing about her husband’s death was elation. She felt free from his presence in her life‚ but at the same time‚ she also felt sadness. She did not feel sadness for her husband’s death. She felt the sadness for her happiness about his death. “When she abandoned
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The Lottery- By Shirley Jackson ““It isn’t fair‚ it isn’t right‚” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed‚ and they were upon her.” (Jackson)Even though the community is following traditions that they happen every year. The traditions are still wrong. This book has a very dark theme‚ and things within the community that symbol many things. The short story is also very similar to the known movie The Hunger Games. This short story is similar to the movie The Hunger Games in a lot of ways. “The Lottery” by Jackson
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Tradition is an important part of everyone’s life. Some people follow traditions so deeply rooted in their everyday life that they don’t even recognize them as such. Why do you cook rice a certain way? Well‚ that’s the way Grandma always did it. Others hold tradition above anything else. They feel that it is very important to follow these established customs and cannot even imagine rebelling against them although they may be hurtful in some ways. They may not even remember the reason for these customs
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It happen at some point during our civilization when human sacrifice became an arrogation‚ executed for a religious purpose‚ a cult‚ or as a ritual to please their gods in which they believe in. In the story‚ The Lottery by Shirley Jackson she introduces us to a luck-of-the-draw conformity among the villagers in the story. Jackson’s reveals that humans commit barbaric genocides by the peer pressure and be subsequent to tradition. The lottery is held in June during the beautiful summer in order to
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The Lottery The community has no real knowledge of this ceremony. It seems ridiculous that a community would cling to such a barbaric tradition‚ especially when they don’t even know the correct way to do it. It becomes apparent this community is very weak-minded. Even the way they congregated at the lottery was done systematically in a sexist way. This community could be convinced to do anything. There are so many points in the story that show these people know nothing of the lottery’s history.
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