The Lottery Sacrifice

Everyone in the town has been raised to believe the lottery is system where a person gets what they deserve and that is what they live by. To make the day a better day, the people have fun and dance because they don't know if that will be their last day. Since this town has been doing the lottery for over 77 years no one asks

He is yelling at the younger people of the village for wanting to quit the lottery. Also when the villagers tell Old Man Henry that other places have already quit lotteries he thinks it's a bad idea and is trouble. No one can blame the villagers for not being enthusiastic about the daunting lottery. Most members of the village are reluctant to participate in the lottery. The text supports this idea when some members of the village talk about discontinuing lotteries.

Whereas, there is an exception, other people such as volunteer workers state that they volunteer to fill the desire to help others (Cool). Not all people fear consequences, they only push forward to want to do better to help the world they live in. There is only a select few, which fear how not affecting the world will harm them. Charity workers, army men, community service workers, etc. do not work to benefit themselves. Although, some people want to benefit only their being, more than that amount wants to change the

“Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box” (93). Mr. Summers wants to make a new box because he wasn’t used to the tradition of the lottery, although he is the director of it. “Bad enough to see young Joe Summers up there joking with everybody” (95). Therefore, the black box symbolizes the tradition of

(AGG) " Once you need less, you have more"- Anonymous (Quotes Native); Materialism takes over people 's lives and makes them want more, but this doesn 't necessarily mean that they are happy with more material. (BS-1) Materialism can be seen through interactions between characters and have become a part of everyday life. (BS-2) Materialism is also a major part of society itself, the people in power want others to have material. (BS-3) When people get away from material, they find happiness, which is what materialistic people have been looking for all along; but they are looking in the wrong place.

Jonas did not like that he had to keep this to himself because everyone else in the community would enjoy it. Although when Jonas was given the memory of death, he did not feel good. Jonas did not like the memory and was glad he didn 't have to share it with anyone else. Even though there were some bad memories, Jonas still wanted to share the good ones with the

John Proctor is a model citizen. A Lot of people have

This short story contains numerous interesting concepts which makes the story twisted and dark, but also gives a realization of what humans are capable of doing, even in today’s society. What can be said about the human condition is our sense of keeping tradition and the fear and anxiety of giving it up. Humans refuse to give up tradition, even if one must sacrifice one of our own kind, showing the disturbing side of the human race. What I found most interesting in the short story “The Lottery” is how easily persuade humans can be, especially with a given authority figure guiding our own actions.

“When you judge others , you do not define them: you define yourself” - Earl Nightingale. In a society where people are still judging other people to try to make them look good is a low blow, you know you will not be able to judge them on their actions but on something they were born with, the color of their skin or the way the look. This is why discrimination happens everyday, bigots must have a scapegoat to blow all the stress they have. But in reality they are not defining the other person because those are petty words but the bigots actions while insulting the poor man will define the bigot . Once people have learned on how to blow all the stress they have, we can almost act as one.

Gatsby’s isolation from society ultimately gets him killed. Anyone’s isolation from the town doesn’t seem so personal because he is happy with Noone but the message of the poem seems personal. The fact that Anyone is isolated but doesn’t let it bother him represents who the author wants to be. The author cares and feels isolated and it bothers him but he wishes it didn't. The message of the poem and the novel is that no one cares about anyone and that is a big problem in society and really needs to change.

Into the wild “Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past” (John Krakauer). Do you think feeling some type of way should give you the right just to leave everyone? I believe that McCandless is dumb for leaving his family and friends without a warning. Having them worried sick for him without knowing anything of where he is.

Then the town wouldn’t care of what could have happened so they decide to ruin the next life that comes to their town. The ending of the film came down to either trying to help these people or get rid of them entirely. But

Then, the members of the marked family draw, and the person that draws the marked slip is stoned to death. To many of the inhabitants, this means that they will sacrifice a member of the town in exchange for a better food ration. On the other hand, the person being stoned, and their family are thinking about each other, how they will survive without their family member, and the pain of being stoned. Being stoned might not sound terrible at first, but having boulders and rocks thrown at your head, chest, and the rest of your body until you bleed or fall to death is a horrible way to die. The town continues this practice because they have no desire to trigger change.

When people of a magazine vendor’s socioeconomic class succumb to this level of an unorthodox lifestyle of the street, some people may lose hope in the world. By building and maintaining a relationship with clients, street vendors have the opportunity to restore a usefulness in the form of providing a service. In Sidewalk a client, named Jack, of these specific vendors once stated, “I kind of miss Marvin and Ron sometimes” (Duneier 71). It is incredible how these vendors are able to have such an affect, such a deep relationship with their cliental when at times they have struggled to have relationships with their own families. Ron and Marvin’s line of unorthodox work, or how they refer to it, their hustle, allows for them to bring more meaning to their lives, bettering themselves with each customer

“Mr. Summers hints at other negative consequences of the lottery when he says,” ‘guess we better get started, get this over with, so’s we can go back to work,’ The lottery ritual contributes nothing to the village, it only serves as a distraction from everyday village life”(Schneiderman 881). Mr. Summers apparently is one of the villagers that realize the negative consequences of the lottery and it should be stopped. “As I mention before, the detrimental effects of a tradition are easier to see when we are not part of that tradition ourselves. Thus, it is easy for us to condemn the lottery and its ritualistic murder of innocent victims” (Crawford 879). “The Lottery” is a perfect illustration of society values and how people feel as though they should always get what they want no matter who suffers in the