Predicting the Ending of "The Lottery"
I believe that The Lottery will end up by the people who gets chosen will have tons, and tons of money. But a part of me thinks it's not going to end up like this, I'm not sure because it seems like it'll end up unexpectedly. So, personally from what I know about lottery's you get to have money. Maybe my other prediction to the people who gets chosen is that they'll get the power to rule the village, since it's such a small village.
Response
The Lottery really surprised me at the end, I never realize that people can be like this just because of "tradition." It was so powerful, that when it got passed down people still didn't realize that stone killing is a bad thing to do. In the front of the story it basically tells how the lottery works, and what the villagers talk about the small details of the lottery rules. The villagers really don't care about the death, they're all used to it. So sometimes traditions aren't always a good thing, sometimes it may be bad. There's another thing I realized about Tessie the one being killed in the story. When she first came to the place for the lottery she start making jokes, and was chatting. But at the end she started panicking because his husband's family is being chosen. Which tells me that people usually don't care when nothing is going to happen to themselves, but when they have something happening to them they care a lot. So if Tessie wasn't picked for death, she won't even care if others die. I realized this when Kassy told me Tessie is trying to change, and stop using the tradition in the village, but apparently Tessie cares only about her and her family.
This world has to change, we can't always be the same and learn these things from the past. The villagers from The Lottery are using the thinking ways about the past, they need to change to new thinking ways that're more reasonable. I believe that even if the tradition is passed down, we should try not to always use what they do, the world can have changes.
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ReplyDeleteI read the same story with you! The Lottery also surprised me in the end with the great twist. I like the way you mention Tessie and her family during conflict of the story. Tessie was real selfish, only cares about herself and her family's situation during the lottery event, in which she was also the one who was picked at the end of the story.
I like the way you brought your opinion bigger from the story to the whole world.
I really liked the way that you pointed out the part about how Tessie wasn't just representative of change and the new way of thinking. Her contrasting actions definitely highlight the selfish nature of humans. It's a very important point to talk about, because it also illustrates how human beings behave when they are in a group. This story also shows how powerful and frightening traditions and culture can be.
ReplyDeleteIt's a bit funny how the villagers try so hard to make sure everything about the lottery is done correctly, following all the rules and asking all the questions that they are supposed to ask, even though they don't actually know or remember how the first lottery was done. The box isn't even the first lottery box. What do you think?