The Lottery By Il Peretz Analysis

Often times people find themselves confronting challenges in life that can have consequences to that person or others. The effects that challenging experiences can have on an individual will vary depending on how one interprets and takes action. The experiences are never neglected entirely and will linger until psychologically or physically dealt with.. People will either choose to filter the extraneous experience or grant the experience an allowance for a change in character. It is evident in particular short stories that significant experiences can have an impact on characters, initiating a change in character and or personality.

The journey of the Litvak in “If Not Higher,” demonstrates how witnessing an event can create a positive experience resulting in a change in character. The author, I.L Peretz, illustrates a small village where a humble
Summers how repetitive practices can affect an individual's ethical conduct. Starting in a small town square, villagers gather for the traditional annual lottery. The officiator, Mr. Summers, begins the ominous unnecessary lottery that customarily selects an innocent villager to be stoned to death. Although the real purpose of the lottery is to commit murder, Mr Summers seems to be void of any moral compass as he sports a white shirt and blue jeans signifying his purity to the situation as if he is Pontius Pilate washing his hands at the trial of Jesus. Assuming the role as head of the lottery for many years, Mr. Summers does not recognize the actuality of reality and continues to lead others in a heinous crime. The adoption of the lottery as tradition, corrupts Mr. Summers and others without recognition. Lastly, in “Young Goodman Brown,” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a significant event evidently has a lasting effect on the protagonist. Living in a Salem village, Goodman Brown commences on an adventure that he knows he should not