I decided to do this short story project on The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson.
This story is about a small town, and it’s the day of the town’s annual lottery. The head of each family draws for their family. After each head of family draws, it is discovered that Bill Hutchinson, the head of the Hutchinson family, drew the marked piece of paper. All five member of the Hutchinson family must then draw from a group of five pieces of paper. After the family draws, it is discovered that Mrs. Hutchinson has the piece with the black spot. She is then stoned by the people of the Town.
I thought that the story was interesting, but at the same time rather sick.
One thing that I thought was very strange was how each person in the town came so willingly. Mrs. Hutchinson, who ends up being the person who gets stoned, comes running to the lottery because she “forgot what day it was”. The character Old Man Warner says that this was his “seventy-seventh year in the lottery, seventy-seventh time”. It is strange to me that a person would participate at all, let alone seventy-seven times. Although this is fiction it shows how people go along with things, simply because they don’t know any different. The people who stone Mrs. Hutchinson are her neighbors and friends. Someone even gives her son a stone.
The subject of this story is the town’s lottery. The theme, in my opinion is that, people sometimes do things just because it’s a tradition. The people of the town continue this lottery every year, because they did it the year before, and the year before that, and so on.
The movie I chose to include in this project was Real Genius. The subject
Of the movie is, Chris and Mitch have to build a laser so that Chris can graduate from college, and Mitch can pass his first semester. The theme is, people need to lighten up, do things for themselves more, and stop trying to make everyone else happy. The theme is shown during the movie on many times, mostly by the character Chris, who refuses to be serious and not have fun. For instance, Chris and one of his buddies coat their dorm’s hall floor in ice and skate around on it saying they are disgusted by everyone just wanting to study. Another example is shown in the video below.
This story is about a small town, and it’s the day of the town’s annual lottery. The head of each family draws for their family. After each head of family draws, it is discovered that Bill Hutchinson, the head of the Hutchinson family, drew the marked piece of paper. All five member of the Hutchinson family must then draw from a group of five pieces of paper. After the family draws, it is discovered that Mrs. Hutchinson has the piece with the black spot. She is then stoned by the people of the Town.
I thought that the story was interesting, but at the same time rather sick.
One thing that I thought was very strange was how each person in the town came so willingly. Mrs. Hutchinson, who ends up being the person who gets stoned, comes running to the lottery because she “forgot what day it was”. The character Old Man Warner says that this was his “seventy-seventh year in the lottery, seventy-seventh time”. It is strange to me that a person would participate at all, let alone seventy-seven times. Although this is fiction it shows how people go along with things, simply because they don’t know any different. The people who stone Mrs. Hutchinson are her neighbors and friends. Someone even gives her son a stone.
The subject of this story is the town’s lottery. The theme, in my opinion is that, people sometimes do things just because it’s a tradition. The people of the town continue this lottery every year, because they did it the year before, and the year before that, and so on.
The movie I chose to include in this project was Real Genius. The subject
Of the movie is, Chris and Mitch have to build a laser so that Chris can graduate from college, and Mitch can pass his first semester. The theme is, people need to lighten up, do things for themselves more, and stop trying to make everyone else happy. The theme is shown during the movie on many times, mostly by the character Chris, who refuses to be serious and not have fun. For instance, Chris and one of his buddies coat their dorm’s hall floor in ice and skate around on it saying they are disgusted by everyone just wanting to study. Another example is shown in the video below.
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Nice work here. I especially like the video example. I do not think I have seen Real Genius since I was about twelve years old. I did not think anyone watched that movie any more.
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