What I Would Do If I Won the Lottery WoooHoooo! I won! I won! Just hearing about winning the lottery sounds great‚ even better if it actually happened! I wouldn’t even know where to begin. I would think I would have to share at least some of it. I also wouldn’t spend all of it. I wouldn’t even know where to begin. I would definitely go on a shopping spree. Just the thought of buying anything I want sounds great! A whole new wardrobe. Also I would travel during vacations from school. Mexico
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The Lottery Point of View Shirley Jackson’s choice of point of view in “The Lottery” is that of being told in the third person. The story is told more by an observer’s point of view rather than that of a participant. In “The Lottery” she illustrates how what is being done to the family members‚ of people in the village‚ is an act of pointless bloodshed. It isn’t clear as to why they carry on with the ancient rite but what is clear is that the people in the village are obedient to the past law and
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to conform to match the norm‚ and will blindly follow if it means that they are part of the group. This conformity is heavily present in ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson‚ and ‘Examination Day’ by Henry Slesar. In both short stories‚ people conform to the traditions and routines that have been dictated to them. In ‘The Lottery’‚ a small town has a tradition of annually sacrificing one of their own‚ who is chosen by a raffle. The winner‚ a woman named Tessie Hutchinson‚ pleads that it isn’t fair‚ when
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People often see the scripture‚ Tradition of the Church and social situations as completely different entities. However‚ this is not true‚ the Catholic Social Teachings (CST) bridges these worlds together. The scripture is our main source of revelation‚ explaining how to reach the kingdom of heaven. For this reason‚ the Catholic Social Teachings rely heavily upon the scriptures as this leads to the Tradition of the Church. The Tradition and the scripture are highly intertwined.The Social Doctrine
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There are a couple of critical issues when it comes to the study of what a religious tradition says. The first is to make a distinction between the oral tradition and the written tradition. Many well-developed‚ world religions have an established canon of sacred texts‚ as well as an oral tradition. In some cases‚ this also has come to be written down. For instance‚ in Judaism‚ there is the tradition of the Oral Torah and the written Torah. The written Torah has become the Tanakh or the Hebrew
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The Lottery Symbolism In Shirley Jackson’s short story "The Lottery" symbols are used to enhance and stress the theme of the story. A symbol is a person‚ object‚ action‚ place‚ or event that in addition to its literal meaning‚ suggests a more complex meaning or range of meanings. (Kirszner & Mendell 330) The theme of the story is how coldness and lack of compassion can be exhibited in people in situations regarding tradition and values. That people will do incredibly evil and cruel things just
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Unexpected Symbolic Outcome of "The Lottery" Violence and human cruelty are two horrible things that occurred a long time ago and continue to be an ongoing issue in our society today. Everyone has either experienced‚ been apart of‚ or witnessed these awful acts at least once in their lifetime. Author Shirley Jackson coveys both violence and human cruelty in her well known short story "The Lottery". "Jackson’s The Lottery" states‚ "The date of the lottery‚ its location‚ and the symbolic or ironic
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Story telling has been used as a staple for human development. Oral storytelling traditions varies from place to place‚ and has lessons to share with everyone. For centuries‚ stories have been used to guide people with advice through the main point of a story. They can tell about one person’s experience in certain situation. The tradition of oral storytelling is used to inform a community of member’s unique experiences in certain situations. “Storytelling that’s verbally expressed can be counted
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In this article the writer tries to clearly define the term tradition in relation to how we perceive it in the modern world. He says traditions are nothing but customs that have been done by generations before us and were passed on to us and we will eventually pass them to the future generations. The writer in specific talks about the Easter traditions. In the Easter traditions it is the norm to have bunny eggs as a highlight of this celebration. “What would an Easter without bunny eggs be?” he further
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