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    23075483 MLA Format Debernardi 2 Romain DEBERNARDI Doctor Yaw ENGL 102 10 September 2011 In this paper‚ we are going to carry out a reflexion about the characters in two stories : “The Destructors‚“ by Graham Greene and “The Lottery‚“ by Shirley Jackson. We are going to identify the main characters and point out their qualities‚ emotions‚ attitudes‚ and behaviors. In this way‚ we will compare the two stories based upon their characters. Leading or Following the Group Paper

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    If I Won the Lottery

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    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 Ticket

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    armed conflict is on the commander(s) for ordering or encouraging soldiers to kill innocent people. People in The Lottery are like soldiers blindly following a rule that ends up taking innocent lives. Winning the lottery does not in tale a trip to a nice place but it’s a responsibility. This is an analogy to the war because any soldier who enters an army is as if he was entering the lottery. As the villagers in the story ignore Tessie’s protest‚ they begin to select the stones they are going to use against

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    Allegory of the Cave 29

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    within the limits of reason and morality. Having freedom equals having the power to think‚ to speak‚ and to act without externally imposed restrains. As a matter of fact‚ finding freedom in order to live free is the common idea in Plato with "The Allegory of the Cave"; Henry David Thoreau with " Where I lived and What I lived for"; and Jean Paul Sartre with " Existentialism". Generally‚ Plato‚ Thoreau‚ and Sartre suggested that human life should be free. They differ in what that freedom is. Plato

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    they understand what we had to go through? Or maybe they just don’t care. My mother was brutally murdered two years ago by the Lottery. When she opened her paper and the dot was there my heart had dropped. It was only the two of us. My mom was the only family I had. My father had passed away ten years ago when I was six ‚and I don’t

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    The Lottery Theme Essay

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    The short story “The Lottery” was very creative and eventful‚ that by the end of the story leaves you wanting more. Throughout the entire short story‚ it has a lot of key underlining themes that help the reader understand who they are and what type of society they live in. Some of those major themes in the story consist of the danger of blindly following tradition‚ the randomness of persecution‚ brutality/savagery‚ the idea of a scapegoat. Each of these in there own way help shape the story into

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    Writer‚ Shirley Jackson‚ in her short story‚ The Lottery‚ conveys a twisted town superstition by killing somebody through a lottery more crops will grow. In the story‚ there is one universal symbol and that is “Old Man Warner” (Jackson 4). His function is to show tradition of the lottery and he was made a figure who is less of an individual‚ but rather more he is in for something else‚ the nostalgia days. In the story‚ there are conventional symbols‚ like the white paper symbolizes equality and

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    Although the short stories “The Lottery” and “The Veldt” have completely different settings and time periods‚ the one common theme that runs through both stories is the tendency of human nature to use violence to accomplish its goals. In both stories‚ selfishness drives the characters to commit horrific acts of murder. In Shirley Jackson’s story “The Lottery‚” the villagers use the excuse of an annual ritual to literally execute one of their own in the mistaken belief that it will help

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    The “Lottery” is about is about how a women or a girl whatever you want to call her‚ she won the lottery and people didn’t think it was fair so they stoned her to death. A good thing to think about in life is to treat people the way you wanted to be treated. That is always a good thing to remember. In the story people like to be treated with respect they don’t like to be treated like “Trash” as people say. In the story is people are being disrespectful to one another one of the other people would

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