3) Writing About The Lottery [Categories: Life Choice, Course Reading, Making Connections]: Please complete the following:
Blog Post Introduction: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson tells the story of the town’s annual gathering for their lottery. The lottery involves the head of each household picking a slip from a black box. The family that received the marked slip then has to bring up every member of their family to pick a slip. The family member with the black dot will then be stoned to death by the people of the town. Literary Analysis: A major theme displayed in the story, The Lottery is hierarchy. This is shown when the men represented the family when they went up to select a slip. The men are seen as higher up than the women and children and are seen as the head of the household. When one of the women, Tessie, arrives late to the lottery she says “Wouldn’t have me leave my dishes in the sink, now, would you Joe?” (Jackson 2). Women in this town are expected to clean, cook and take care of the children. The color black can be seen as a motif throughout the story. Black can be representing ‘death’ or ‘darkness’. The color appears many times like the black box they chose the slip from and the black dot on the slips of paper. Argumentation: For many years the United States has been one of the only countries not using the metric system. The U.S. is different when measuring things such as a person’s weight, teaspoons/tablespoons in recipes and speed limit. This can make it difficult when trading goods with other countries because they follow a different system. The article, America Has Been Struggling With the Metric System For Almost 230 Years, that under President Johnson the Metric Act was passed. The Metric Act is basically a conversion table from the U.S. system to the metric system that could be used for trading. The law doesn’t say the U.S. has to switch to the metric system. I believe this relates to the story because the U.S. is just following the tradition of the people before them just like the people in the town were doing. It would benefit the U.S. to switch to the metric system because it would make trading with other countries easier. They don’t have a reason not to switch to the metric system but they continue to use it because of tradition. Narration: Every year my family spends New Year's Eve with each other and rings in the new year together. This is an important tradition for my family because we have been doing it for as long as I can remember. One year my brother decided he was going to hang out with his friends instead of the family. My mom was a little hesitant to let him go but in the end she said it was okay. All night I could tell my mom was upset that my brother wasn’t there. She really wished the whole family could be together. The next year my friends invited me to their New Year’s Eve party. I was excited to go until I remembered my mom being upset about my brother not being there. I debated on whether or not to go and decided to stay with my family. I didn’t want to break the tradition because I knew how much that it meant to my mom to have the whole family there.
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Sabatino
9/22/2017 04:02:24 am
I appreciated your conversation about the theme of hierarchy in the story and how you focused on the gender roles in the community and in the lottery tradition.
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Megan Nestler
9/25/2017 09:42:16 am
The new years eve tradition with your family is great! So many people including me get to a certain age where you want to spend the new years with your friends rather than your family, I think it was a smart decision to not break that tradition and follow in your brothers footsteps, your mom was definitely happy with your decision.
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Christian
9/26/2017 06:18:37 am
Wow I can't believe I didn't think of this tradition, I know how that feels I did the same thing your brother did two years ago.
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