The story named The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is about this little town only God knows where with a population of approximately 300 people which is the towns high because the population is growing fast. The oldest man in the town is called Old Man Warner, who is in his 70’s and going strong, said that they should not follow the other towns that stopped doing the lottery for obvious reasons. One key thing to show what this story is trying to teach is the theme.
In the story the Lottery there are many
themes but one that stands out is inhumanity. The reason why I think this is
because the people in the town reach into a black box and pulled out a piece of
paper and if your paper has a black dot on it you get stoned. And they did it
for that reason and that reason only. When I read that they were going to stone
Tessie because I thought the lottery was something happy and bring joy to some
ones heart but instead they decide to stop their hearts. This story is very
well done with the wording and really explains and helps out the reason why she
wrote this.
Finally “The Lottery” relates to the
story “Among the Hidden” by Margaret Peterson Haddix where it is inhumane to
have a population law because it’s not right to just kill a baby because a
family already has two kids. In every way probable it is not human like or
normal to kill a baby for that reason. I think that it should be the parent’s
decision whether or not they should keep or get rid of it. Both of these
stories have
the same theme with the inhumanity.
i liked it. it had some small errors. i had the same theme
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