I am writing my essay on “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. There are several themes that run through this classic short story. One would be the long standing traditions. The mysterious lottery is one example. Villagers continue the lottery year after year because‚ as one of the villagers would say‚ “We have always had a lottery as far back as I can remember. I see no reason to end it.” The black box that contains each citizen’s name is another example. Another theme would be that of man’s cruelty
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Insight 1: Receiving Privileges Has Become a Norm Firstly‚ the bubbles blown out of one of the stone buildings resemble how much Singaporean youths have been receiving since birth. Relating the amount of bubbles directing to the right side‚ they have become used to receiving so much that they take it as a norm. One example is that it is extremely usual for students to have the opportunity to be guaranteed of a high standard education here in Singapore‚ when other countries may not offer. This is
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very low populated village. Before finding out that the unusual size man wasn’t a whale while the kids of the village were horse playing around him from an unknown descent with very fond appearances named Esteban that was given to him by the woman villagers. While deciding on how they were going to send off Esteban the men of the village starts to become jealous of the dead man stealing their wives. Esteban is symbolic as a Creme-De la-Creme to show that everyone has something unique about them that
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How to answer novel ‘The Curse’ Below are some tips that you can follow: ** Rememeber to write your answer in paragraphs ( at least 3) **If you are not sure how to answer‚ make sure include all these elements 1. how many characters 2. how many events/evidence 3. how many values/lessons/themes * manipulate your understanding of the story to fit the question – not to fit the question to what you know about the story **always have concluding paragraph to reinforce or sum up what you
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believe him to be part of another world‚ a world that they did not understand because it was only made available to a selective few. The prestige‚ knowledge and self-confidence provided within the confinements of the high school was unknown to the villagers therefore they could no longer accept G to be one of them nor could he accept them. I was no longer one of the boys .whether or not they wanted me they excluded me from their world just as my memory of them and the village excluded me from the
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them occurs in both the poem and the passage. In the passage a man‚ a traveler‚ came to a woman’s cottage and asked for food and shelter. She said‚ “....my place is not an inn.” In the poem the soldiers came to the village and asked for food. The villagers gave them firewood to stay warm‚ but not food as it states in the poem‚ “All they got was firewood.” In the beginning of both the poem and passage‚ there were people who needed food‚ but didn’t receive any. The main characters in the poem and the
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outbreaks from occurring. 2. Ethical issues that are raised by pouring the treatment into the wells without the consent of others is that people should be entitled to choose whether or not they want to chance their lives by consuming a mystery cure. The villagers have no idea what is being poured into the wells‚ which further down the line could cause different health issues‚ and in turn people won’t know where to begin to find a cure if they are unsure of what caused it. Bottom line‚ it takes away the person’s
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My lecture is about unusual festivals. Could you give me some examples for unusual festival? -Yes that’s true -Don’t you have any idea? I’m sure you have seen some unusual festivals on TV but now you might forgot them. Forexample you imagin a lot of people gathering in a city throwing tomatos at each other just for fun. Have you ever participated in an unusual festival? -Yes: great this is such an interesting experience I’m sure you never fogot that day. -No: no problem
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freedom‚ we could not improve the villages and the villagers to the desired extent. It would be the best use of vacation if the students visited a nearby village with the intention of reformation. The sanitary condition in a village is far from satisfactory. Open drains containing stagnant water are found everywhere .Roads are not in a proper shape‚ the source of drinking-water is insect-affected .The menace of mosquitoes is perpetual .The villagers live under the most unhygienic conditions. To
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literature”. This story‚ written by Shirley Jackson‚ begins as a sense of peaceful‚ it’s a beautiful summer day‚ as author writes “the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green”‚ children are during their summer vacation and the villagers have begun assembling in the square to hold a lottery‚ so it’s unclear exactly what the prize of this lottery is going to be and this mystery persists throughout the story. Until the end of the story‚ Tess Hutchinson is stoned
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