Thursday, December 8, 2011

"The Lottery"

#1 What is a "lottery"? How does the title lead you to expect something very different from what the story presents?

"The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock; in the same towns there were so many proplr that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 26th, but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner."

By definition, a lottery is any happening or process determined by chance. Usually, most people associate a lottery with something good. Most people are happy to win the lottery. The most common prize for a lottery is money. However, the lottery in this story is not a usual lottery. The title suggests that someone would want to win the lottery. But, this story is the opposite; no one wants to win the lottery. The "winner" of the lottery gets stoned to death. In the story, there were hints that no one wanted to win this lottery, but I did not expect someone to be killed.

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