“This is a short response about the themes in the story The Lottery;
I will be supporting my evidence with text evidence.”
The story The Lottery is
about where a town has a lottery, but instead of winning money they play with
the fate of people’s lives. One example of theme in this story happens to be
tradition, because throughout the story they talk about how this has been a
tradition for their town for 100’s of years. Even one of the men participating,
who also happens to be the oldest man in the town, says that he has done this
town’s annual lottery for 27 years. Plus if this was not tradition to this town
they would hopefully think it is inhuman to kill a person with rocks, but the
reason why it isn’t inhuman to them is because it is a tradition to the town
folk. Another odd thing that helps back up this tradition theme is that the
friends of the woman, who is killed, pick up the biggest stones at her so she
can die quick and less painful.
Another theme that stands out in
this story happens to be death, because this entire town is revolved around
this lottery that ends up killing someone in the end. The theme death is not in
the beginning of the story because it starts out all innocent, like something
you see in the movie, but then it slowly starts to go downhill from the moment
the story begins. Those are the two main themes that stick out the most in the
story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
I like the word choice that you use in your pieces. Although, never mind, I can't find anything wrong with it. Nice job.
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