Lit Club: One Week Notice...

[angeleyesjg24.livejournal.com]

Join the Club!

Just dropping in with a friendly reminder to the members of the Restricted Section. You all have one more week (until Sunday night) to finish reading our two book selections: The Phantom of the Opera (found online here) and our short story The Lottery (found online here). Discussions for these two stories will being starting this Sunday evening the 5th, and running until Friday, March 24th (two full weeks).

As an incentive to read, this discussion will be treated as a contest.
Top Poster- 50 points
Second- 40 points
Third- 30 points.

There will be two firsts, two seconds, and two thirds (one per reading). So hop to it!!!

Don't hesistate to ask me any questions!
Anna M

Comments

Re: The Lottery

[angeleyesjg24.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad that you did read the short story. Would you mind moving this comment over here () and signing it? That way, you and your house get points!

Thanks,
Anna M

The Lottery

[kitty4151981.livejournal.com]

Well I never quite got around to finishing the Phantom of the Opera although I fully intend to someday when I have no school work to do.

I still think that the Lottery is an odd story. No matter how many times I read it or try to look at it from different angles, it just sounds as if it's a stupid ritual to do. This lottery was started when the population was growing so why end a life when you need to have as many lives to reproduce children? Even when the story takes place, there is never a justification for ending a person's life just because they were unlucky.

I also don't understand why the people of the town couldn't understand why other towns have stopped following such a tradition. It's not a good tradition to follow and these people just don't seem to have grasped that fact. Sure traditions are great and all that, but times do change and new traditions are always coming up or old ones are being altered in some way.

What would happen if a child's name was pulled? How could one kill an innocent child? It's easier to understand if the person was old and had lived his life but for a young child who hasn't had much of a chance to live his life, that would be just too cruel.

Also, it seems as if this whole lottery harks back to the old days when it was certain as if people would live. After all, in the old days before modern medicine, people would die and it was all left up to chance when the younger people died. But I'm just blathering here and all that.

Lee/Ravenclaw

And what do you mean by moving the comment?