"The Children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles."
"Tessa Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hand outs desperately as the villagers moved in on her. "It isn't fair," she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head."(Jackson 221)
I found this excerpt from The Lottery to be the most important. It's the point when you find out truly what the lottery is about. Jackson does what she set out to by "shocking the reader with a graphic demonstration of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in ther own lives." It truly is symbolic of the senseless of inhumane acts. The women , Tessie Hutchinson, is stoned assumingly to death because of a random act, chosing a slip of paper with a black dot. This woman had done nothing wrong.
I included the first line of the excerpt because it shocked me that even Tessie's son was encouraged in her stoneing. I found this to help illustrate perhaps how society as a whole may act. How everyone even Tessie's son takes part in the violence just because it was a part of the towns ritual. None of the members of the community seemed to have sense enough to stop this violent act. I wonder why the inhabitiants continue to live in this town, when others have stopped "the lottery".
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Lacie Ballard
2 comments:
I agree with you, Lacie. Such nonsense. Why would anyone continue to live in a place where this violent act takes place when there was obviously a choice. The villagers did not seem to mind that the black box was in poor condition, so it would seem to me that people did not hold this ritual in high regard.
I agree. It does make me wonder why this community has kept the "tradition" while so many others have stopped it. Why do they hold on to such an inhuman and cruel act?
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