(Note: I apologise for delaying this. My computer went haywire for a while)
RELEVANCE TO TODAY(THE LOTTERY)
From "The Lottery", we learn mainly about how hypocritic we humans are, and also how we follow customs blindly. In the story, for more than, say, 50 years, nobody ever questioned the reason behind this bloody and agonizing ritual, partly because Mr Summers, an influential man, did not feel the need to oppose the lottery. Thus the rest of the villagers followed his lead, not a single one of them questioning the ethics of the lottery. Even the words of Mr Adams and Mrs Graves were said as they were afraid of being stoned to death, but in the end, they forget all about what they said and were only interested in finding out who in the Hutchinson family would get stoned to death.
Moving to my point about hypocrisy. We humans do not bother about things until we get victimised. In the story, Tessie Hutchinson had been participating inthe lottery all her life, and not once did she utter a word of protest to this wrongdoing. However, when she is the one selected to be stoned, she starts saying that the lottery "isn't fair" and "isn't right". This shows how hypocritic we humans can be at times. Im my opinion, Shirley Jackson is trying to say that humans think it is alright to kill others but themselves.
Do we have such lotteries in our society nowadays? Yes, we do. A geeky or clumsy kid gets picked on by a group of stronger kids in school. Companies are not keen on hiring disabled people even though they may be talented just because they are different. Why do we blame them for something they can't control. Do you think they wanted to be born this way? I dont think so. Thus, I hope that we will think carefully about everything we do and not follow blindly
RELEVANCE TO TODAY(THE LOTTERY)
From "The Lottery", we learn mainly about how hypocritic we humans are, and also how we follow customs blindly. In the story, for more than, say, 50 years, nobody ever questioned the reason behind this bloody and agonizing ritual, partly because Mr Summers, an influential man, did not feel the need to oppose the lottery. Thus the rest of the villagers followed his lead, not a single one of them questioning the ethics of the lottery. Even the words of Mr Adams and Mrs Graves were said as they were afraid of being stoned to death, but in the end, they forget all about what they said and were only interested in finding out who in the Hutchinson family would get stoned to death.
Moving to my point about hypocrisy. We humans do not bother about things until we get victimised. In the story, Tessie Hutchinson had been participating inthe lottery all her life, and not once did she utter a word of protest to this wrongdoing. However, when she is the one selected to be stoned, she starts saying that the lottery "isn't fair" and "isn't right". This shows how hypocritic we humans can be at times. Im my opinion, Shirley Jackson is trying to say that humans think it is alright to kill others but themselves.
Do we have such lotteries in our society nowadays? Yes, we do. A geeky or clumsy kid gets picked on by a group of stronger kids in school. Companies are not keen on hiring disabled people even though they may be talented just because they are different. Why do we blame them for something they can't control. Do you think they wanted to be born this way? I dont think so. Thus, I hope that we will think carefully about everything we do and not follow blindly
posted by Xavier the Confused at 10:31 PM
3 Comments:
BORING POSTS
People should learn not to do onto others what they do not want others to do to you.
Note:Line 14 "inthe" typo error...
And Xavier,maybe you should add a tagboard and if you are afraid of spams,you can actually add a word restriction to it and can always clean it up
BTW,Im Han Yang,1A4 if you still do not know yet...and link me :D http://www.xxdhy1996xx.blogspot.com/
well instead of saying that my blog posts are boring you could tell me what is considered not boring. Maybe to you exciting posts are those that wallow in self-pity and lament about life:) maybe you could let me take a look at how unboring your posts are so that I can entertain you with more "exciting" posts
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