Authors Note: This is a piece about government control and men control about "The Lottery"Not graded.
Stuck in the same place, too
worried to move, to scared to speak up. Then again, what do we know? This might
be the best government out there. The
pile of stones in the corner sits for another year, for that special someone,
to get the lottery. In the short story
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson the whole story is about power/ control. The
villagers don’t know any better than to follow the governments rules. How long
will this go on? How long will it be till they realize that the governments
traditions, are in humane? What will it take for them to realize that the
control their under is not safe?
All through-out this story you can
see the power and control that the government has on this village. They have
the village so warped into this tradition that they don’t even realize how
wrong it is. They still get together every year. They still stone someone to
death every single year. Can you see how wrong this is? Why would the people in
charge of everyone want to kill them one by one? What if it didn’t end up being
Tessie Hutchinson that was killed? What if it was little Davy Hutchinson that
got the lottery? Would you want to kill a young boy’s soul? Just the thought of
their definition of the lottery makes me upset. Seriously, Tessie is a mother
of three and has a family and house to look after, yet they kill her! Not only the government, but that even the
men have the power on the women.
During this point and time I can
tell that the women are still not allowed to do anything yet. Meaning civil
rights and such. The section in the story where Mr. Summers was making sure
everyone had someone to draw for them was wrong. He wouldn’t let the women draw
for a lottery. Their human beings they have just the same right that the men
do, but they still are not allowed to even walk up to a box and take a slip. It
says in the story that in the beginning when they were about to start they all
had to take place next to their husbands and that no one listens to them. A
mothers child ran right through her grasp and she wasn’t allowed to do anything
about it! She has no control because the men are in control.
This was such a good piece! I liked how you explained everything thoroughly and provided examples in the text! One thing, that I could add is in your author's note you might want to add that this piece is about theme, but that's it! Magnificent job! :)
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love this piece! Your writing is so advanced its amazing! You explained specific examples and I loved how you used questions in the story. It was very in depth! Something you could improve on...is...Umm....I don't really know. This was great! I guess if you wanted to revise it you could make one more paragraph. Something that I learned was that I never thought of Little boy Davy getting killed. How horrible would it have been if they killed the poor boy?
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