The lottery

THEME

This story is about a human sacrifice ritual where a family member is chosen by random chance to be stoned to death; basically this tradition is about to redeem sins or bad feelings in order to bring good luck to the community and villagers follow it blindly. One member of each family goes to draw a small slip in one sheet of paper in a black box. One of the themes in the story is about; the people in the lottery follow this tradition without asking themselves why do we need to murder someone without any reason? However, they never stop to think whether it is ok or not. Rather; they think that it is a justified act because they’ve always held a lottery to kill a person. Everybody has the chance to become as a kid or guiltless and every year they choose someone new and murdered. Now, we have the family is reflecting in the story, because the Hutchinson family plays the main role in the lottery, Tessie, she does not anything however she is stoning and her stoning is rushed by her own son and it is in that way when the family can be manipulated with this sick tradition. This fact is reflects in nowadays society in how people pursues someone for any reason.   

CHARACTERS

Tessie Hutchinson: She arrives late to the lottery and I think that she is a free spirit because she is the only one who is against the lottery. She is a good woman and forgetful because she forgot the lottery’s day. She is a normal woman, I mean a woman who is not old and not young. She is humble and she is pretty.

Old man Warner: He is very old; he is closed mind because he thinks that just the lottery may remain society stable. I think he is fat and a bad person. Finally an ugly man as well.

Aborigines in Australia

In this country some tribes do a painful tradition, nowadays it is an important way to demonstrate that they are men. Basically, this tradition around 15-16 men are separated from their mothers and then old men take them to a room far away. Teenagers spend their time during some hours singing in order to relaxing. After that, one wizard of the tribe cut their foreskin without any anesthesia and if they show pain and suffering is a terrible situation because it is a cowardliness and shame act. But this suffering keeps going with a week later when another surgery starts with a hole in the root of the male organ with the only goal to avoid pregnancies just only they want to have children.

I think this tradition or all sick traditions around in the world are totally unnecessary I really think that those guys can live without any demonstration of bravery. And sometimes here in our society and others societies as well raised people to do sick traditions either chauvinism or people who do not respect others for me it is a sick tradition.