The messages that were perceived in the short story/film of the lottery were that every few months or so there had to be a town sacrifice so that at the time they would have good and healthy crop.This was no ordinary lottery as a matter of fact nobody wanted to win this particular lottery.
Every head of the family in the town would gather all together on the 27Th and have small talk between each other knowing they are there to piratically kill each other .How the draw went about was there was that there were a certain amount of blank ballots and those are the safe ballots to draw,there is one and only one ballot with a big dark black dot in the middle which meant you were the one to be stoned and killed that day as a sacrifice for the town .In the end the purpose was the less people living in the town the less people to feed which means more food to go around and keep those whom are still alive and well happy.
I find the idea of that type of lottery morally repulsing because it is taking a innocent person's life so brutally and randomly that you aren't even given the chance to process what is going on before it is over.I am truly glad that as Canadian citizen's now day's we have morale's and we have rights as a person's enough to be respected by one and other.
Every head of the family in the town would gather all together on the 27Th and have small talk between each other knowing they are there to piratically kill each other .How the draw went about was there was that there were a certain amount of blank ballots and those are the safe ballots to draw,there is one and only one ballot with a big dark black dot in the middle which meant you were the one to be stoned and killed that day as a sacrifice for the town .In the end the purpose was the less people living in the town the less people to feed which means more food to go around and keep those whom are still alive and well happy.
I find the idea of that type of lottery morally repulsing because it is taking a innocent person's life so brutally and randomly that you aren't even given the chance to process what is going on before it is over.I am truly glad that as Canadian citizen's now day's we have morale's and we have rights as a person's enough to be respected by one and other.
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Cynthia,
Your opinions and thoughts on the lottery were very interesting and well thought out. However, next time, be sure to spell check what you are posting so it is error free!
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