The Lottery

Title: The Lottery
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 642 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Lottery

The Lottery was a story of a town’s old superstious traditon. The purpose of the lottery was to see who would be sacrificed so that the harvest would be plentiful. The town did whatever it could so that the harvest would be plentiful, even kill one of their loved ones. The character Mrs. Hutchinson was the “winner” of that years harvest and was stone to death by the town’s people. Her own son …showed first 75 words of 642 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 642 total…just doing nothing about it, it led to her own demise. The message rang pretty clear in my ears as I read the story. The author was trying to say that humans usually don’t get involved until we have to or until it involves us. Maybe our society should do the same. Instead of waiting for a problem to happen, we as a society should go out and try prevent it. Bibliography "The Lottery"

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