The Lottery Ritual Analysis
The Traditional Ritual
" The Lottery "
Michelle Jackson, provides readers with detailed descriptions of how people can follow ritual traditions subsequently blindly, without even thinking how much sense it actually makes to follow such traditions, or how it affects them or their loved ones.( 235-243) The name of the title makes you consider that this story is concerning drawing numbers and winning a prize, then to my surprise it is about how a tiny village involved in a tradition, ritual every year stoning to death one of their own in a town of roughly “three hundred people”. (237)
The villagers do not have knowledge of how the lottery began several generations ago, however, seems extra interested in the act of keeping the ritual alive and …show more content…
People that are innocent of no wrongdoing become “targeted” because of a tradition, example, they don’t believe in god or if they are gay. The truth is that the same way the villagers act in “The Lottery” they blindly follow tradition and stone innocent people to death, for people will condemn without questioning, why.
The (villagers make up of families’) 238 and the families plays a vast part of the assembling of the lottery drawing, nevertheless the weight of the family only increases the stoning’s mercilessness killings, since it shows how family members can turn against each other. In the village, families are in groups, and all family members are present. The (head intofor the family, and household members within the family) 238, on the lists, indicate which member selects the paper from the black box. Once somebody has picked the marked paper, the woman’s children and husband turned against her the same way the other folks have done. Family ties and bonds are all broken, there remains no devotion, or love, during the lottery, or once the lottery finished.
“The
Lottery” is every act, conduct, or impression that passed down from
" The Lottery "
Michelle Jackson, provides readers with detailed descriptions of how people can follow ritual traditions subsequently blindly, without even thinking how much sense it actually makes to follow such traditions, or how it affects them or their loved ones.( 235-243) The name of the title makes you consider that this story is concerning drawing numbers and winning a prize, then to my surprise it is about how a tiny village involved in a tradition, ritual every year stoning to death one of their own in a town of roughly “three hundred people”. (237)
The villagers do not have knowledge of how the lottery began several generations ago, however, seems extra interested in the act of keeping the ritual alive and …show more content…
People that are innocent of no wrongdoing become “targeted” because of a tradition, example, they don’t believe in god or if they are gay. The truth is that the same way the villagers act in “The Lottery” they blindly follow tradition and stone innocent people to death, for people will condemn without questioning, why.
The (villagers make up of families’) 238 and the families plays a vast part of the assembling of the lottery drawing, nevertheless the weight of the family only increases the stoning’s mercilessness killings, since it shows how family members can turn against each other. In the village, families are in groups, and all family members are present. The (head intofor the family, and household members within the family) 238, on the lists, indicate which member selects the paper from the black box. Once somebody has picked the marked paper, the woman’s children and husband turned against her the same way the other folks have done. Family ties and bonds are all broken, there remains no devotion, or love, during the lottery, or once the lottery finished.
“The
Lottery” is every act, conduct, or impression that passed down from