After reading several of required readings, I decided that my interest more into the reading about “The Lottery”. At first when I saw the title, I thought this would be great for me because everyone should know about lottery but after reading the text I gain a better understand of the writer was trying to present. Earlier in the passage it talked about the people gathering around in the town for an event and the children deciding to gather rocks and make a pile. I thought this could be fun and something very interesting about kids. When I began, it gave me a sense of how we acted as kids in trying to create games to play with what we could find outside to play with. The stanza in my opinion that made this short story complete was when …show more content…
School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and teacher, of books and reprimands. Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones; Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix, the villagers pronounced this name Dellacroy, eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys. The girls stood aside, talking among themselves, looking over their shoulders at the boys, and the very small children rolled in the dust or clung to the hands of their older brothers or sisters.” (Charters and Charters) This is what connected the story to the end of what took place and why. Having the children gather and then the adults was the main points and as to why was a social gathering that took place each year. At first, I did not understand what the title “The Lottery” had to do with the children and families gathering in the town center but when it began to talk about the man coming with a black box and a stool that had to be supported by others it began to give me an understanding that it was a drawing that one person of each family participated in …show more content…
Hutchinson arrived late, her husband selected the paper, she shouted that it need to start over because her husband was given enough time to select and after the family selecting papers she was the one to select the paper with a black dot. It taught me that what you ask for sometimes or participate in, is not always a good thing and something life is a gamble/lottery when it can end your life or someone else’s. I do not think it really matters if this text matters or not but it does teach someone like myself that some of our history is true and gives us a better understanding as to where we were and where we are today. I just cannot see today that there will be such a thing like this lottery that will be conducted to stone someone to death because they picked the wrong piece of paper. To me this short story reminds me of my parents past employment when criminals are convicted of a crime and they are either sentenced to a time in jail/prison or sentenced to death. “The Lottery” is like a court hearing that you must attend and pray that the people in your community will not punish you for a crime that you did not commit. In the end, this young lady with a husband and children was placed in front a jury and she was sentenced to death because her hand selected the incorrect piece of