Week sept/27- oct/1 and Picture for September 27 - October 1

This week we read the "The Lottery," a popular story from 1948. The basic plot is that there's a town with a tradition. This tradition involves holding a lottery every year. The winner of the lottery is stoned to death in the hope that the sacrifice will bring a good harvest. However, this is not entirely revealed until the end of the story, but is given in small hints known as foreshadowing. Through the whole story though, everyone appears to have no bad intentions, but they all turn on the poor winner of this lottery. This is a form of situational irony (explained in the previous entry). In class we held our own lottery, except the winner got rock candy. =( I didn't win.



Contributed by Ben:
This week we watched 2 movies about the short story lottery.  The lottery is a sad story about a ritual/religion concept.  In the lottery there was a village with only a few people every year there was a lottery to sacrifice someone for the harvest.  Whoever got the slip of paper with a black dot on it was stoned to death.