The story that surround the lottery is really ironic because the people in this village see this event " The Lottery" like something really relevant for their Lives. It looks like the best and most important tradition in this village even when much of its ritual had been fogotten.
Jackson wants to show that people dont open their mind in order to improve their lifestyle. It means we don"t want to change some traditions which dont have any meaning in Life. We keep stuck in specific activities just because we have been doing them for many years.
We shouldn"t feel afraid of change in our lives, even if the results are not positives.
Experience is what you get when you didn"t get what you wanted, and it is going to let us to continue changing until getting what you really want to!
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15 years ago
It is so ironic because even when Tessie Hutchinson was about to die, she insisted that there were something wrong in the way the lottery wad been played that specific time. She didn't realize that the lottery itself was a bad tradition.
ReplyDeleteJacky, I really like what you said about experience. I never thought about it but it's very true!
I agree with Camila, Jackie: that's a great way to describe "experience," something we all value highly in our lives.
ReplyDeleteOf course, it's difficult to change--we can see that so clearly in The Lottery--but, we don't have to participate in traditions, etc. that we don't believe in, and when we stop we might find all kinds of freedoms.