Fiction Essay COURSE # and TITLE: ENGL 102: Literature and Composition ____ SEMESTER OF ENROLLMENT: Spring D 2014_________________ NAME: Brian Michael Cashion________________ ID #: L26234716__ WRITING STYLE USED: APA___________________________________________________ Fiction Essay Thesis and Outline Thesis Statement In the short stories “The Lottery” and “The Destructors” even though the stories are
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Arylle Ng Mrs. Chung October 27‚ 2014 English II “The Characters’ Views on Acceptance of Those Different From Them” All human beings judge other people based on who they are. People judge others because they are somewhat different from them. Being judgmental is the basis part of human nature. Despite our flaw as human beings‚ Barbara Jordan comments on the collection “Ourselves and Others” that‚ “We‚ as human beings‚ must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.” This quote
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2004 Tessie Hutchinson was killed after being stoned to death in Charlestone‚ New York. On the 13th the townspeople & other residents gathered around for their annual “Lottery”. Mr. Summers who runs the lottery made sure that everyone was there and everyone was going to get a card. But this was no ordinary lottery‚ when you grabbed your card and you did not had a black-dot on it you were safe and sound‚ but if you did have a black dot you were to be stoned to death. And this time Tessie Hutchinson
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Firstly‚ because there will be someone in the winning family that will be killed‚ it will have immense psychological impacts to the other family members. When the family members drew individually‚ none of them wanted to draw the lottery ticket despite that would mean they would lose a family member. “Nancy and Bill Jr. opened theirs at the same time‚ and both beamed and laughed‚ turning around to the crowd and holding their slips of paper above their heads.” They are relieved that it was not them
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one particular person stands out: Mrs “Tessie” Hutchinson. At the beginning of the story‚ Tessie heads towards the town square‚ stating that she “forgot what day it was” to her neighbour Mrs. Delacroix as they both chuckled softly. Soon enough‚ phrases are shared between Tessie and her soon to be rivals: Thought we were going to have to get on without you‚ Tessie”‚ (Mr.Summers)‚ “Your in time‚ though”‚ (Mrs. Delacroix). Throughout the story‚ Mrs. Hutchinson doesn’t seem to mind the fact that someone
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times‚ fitting symbols for our distressing world of the camp and the bomb” (The Lottery 144). Shirley’s story is about a town of a few hundred residents who join every year to be a part of the lottery. It then hits two stages of the drawing and Tessie Hutchinson “wins”. Now that she won‚ she is stoned to death by her people. Even her own family allowed this to happen! This discourteous distress in this twist was horrifying that anyone could just kill someone because‚ they won the lottery. When people
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tradition. Old Man Warner expressed that “there’s always been a lottery‚” never questioning how or why (121). Instead‚ Old Man Warner accused the other villages as a “pack of young fools” (121). Tessie Hutchinson’s name was symbolic in that a Hutchinson was banished from a puritan colony‚ just like Tessie was banished from her family as soon as she drew the black dot in the
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tradition‚ he suggests rebuilding the box‚ from which families choose the pieces of paper. He listens to the villagers but does not make the hard choice to change the tradition(2). Tessie Hutchinson symbolizes individuals in a community‚ who question tradition and often get persecuted for their rebelliousness. Tessie
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how quickly the villagers turn on each other. As soon as Tessie Hutchinson picks the piece of paper with the black dot‚ she loses her identity and everyone starts to throw stones aiming to kill her. This theme is similar to the next theme brutality. The theme of brutality‚ is popular because the little kids throw pebbles at the people at the post and the parents teach the kids from such a young age that its okay to kill. Tessie Hutchinson is weeping for her life and yet people continue to throw stones
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What would you do if your friends were doing something that you didn’t agree with? Following the crowd can lead to disastrous consequences. In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson‚ a small town holds an event that they call the lottery but the winner does not receive money‚ the prize for the winner is death. In first they came by Martin Niemoller‚ a man in a concentration camp does not speak out for anyone when the Nazi soldiers came for the people that they were trying to kill. In these two short stories
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