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.
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The Lottery
Date: 2006-03-07 10:49 pm (UTC)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.
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And what do you mean by moving the comment?