Have you
ever been in a situation that you have been heart broken or you felt it was unfair?
In the short story "The lottery" by Shirley Jackson has two main
themes which is unfairness and heartbroken. This story is about the lottery
except it's not actually about winning the lottery it's about getting your name
chosen from a black box and once you are chosen you go to the next round and
the next. If you win the final round you get stoned to death.
First of all
the first theme in the lottery is unfairness because the main character didn't
think it was fair her husband got to pull the card out of the bucket. Also it
could be unfairness because everyone doesn't know anything except there village
in the world.
Although,
unfairness is a pretty big theme I think the bigger them heartbroken the reason
why I say that is because if you have to stone your friends or family it must
hurt to sit there, and watch them get stoned to death. Since the bigger the
rock the bigger the friendship could also mean knowing you ended your friends
life that your rock could have been the rock that knocked them out, To sit
there and watch the pain that you give your close family, friends.
In
conclusion even though this story I think is a sad story, it also has a great
meaning to it and the themes have a great meaning to it too.
I agree with everything you said here, but you used the same example for both themes, making the whole thing pretty repetitive and redundant. Great piece on the whole though.
ReplyDeleteI don't appreciate you calling my piece boring and unneeded.
ReplyDeletei think its good but could use a little more support but otherwise its good
ReplyDeleteStarvin,
ReplyDeleteWith the quote you chose, you brought the reader to a different place than I have considered when I had previously read " The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. When reading this short story I never sensed that there was a choice by the person who was being stoned or the people in the village who threw the stones.
I wonder what would have happened if one of them had said, " No, I am not going to do this barbaric practice any longer?" Would they have died? Would their sacrifice been the first of many who would have finally said NO to the tradition? Could their sacrifice have made a positive change?
In your writing, you do begin with strong ideas and ideas that others possibly never see or have the courage to share. I have always been amazed at how differently and deeply you view a situation. With a good idea you need to take time to develop it and support it with examples from the book.
With support for your ideas the reader will have more time to "listen" and evaluate your message. You are trying to use few words when the reader really needs more words in order to understand what you are saying.
Take your time, plan out what you want to say. You have a gift for seeing things differently. Now you want to use more words to have others think differently as a result of your writing.
Thank you for sharing.