"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
DIDACTIC LITERATURE: form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking
#6. By transporting a primitivistic ritual into a modern setting, the story reveals something about human nature and human society. What?
Wow this short story was weird. I had a feeling something weird was going on and I knew someone was going to die because of the cheery name of our unit this week. Also, the stones were quite the twist from the seemingly nonchalant mention of them in the beginning to the very important need towards the end of the story. This story teaches a lot about human nature. I found it strange at first that every one knew everyone and each other's husbands and wives. Everyone could call on one another by first name. It was especially weird because Mr. Summers was asking if every one in the village was there and a lot of people could just be like, "Clyde Dunbar...That's right. He broke his leg, hasn't he?" (Jackson 266). Everyone knows everything about everyone in this weird little village. It was freakish to begin with and then come to find out they're going to end up stoning someones mother, wife, and daughter. It surprised me a lot and I thought it was trying to allude to the fact that humans are vicious. They will kill their next door neighbor for seemingly no reason at all. That is just what these people did--they brutally murdered their friend and neighbor because they were taught that it was their tradition to do so.
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