Sunday, September 18, 2011
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I think that the box in the lottery represented out dated ideas people had. People are afraid of change and so no one wants to change anything they do even if they don't know why they are doing it for in the first place. The box represents ideas. What the author wants us to do is question those ideas and see what is wrong with them. The box is black therefor its bad, it means that the tradition/idea is bad is dark and needs to be changed. It has chips on the side, maybe the idea/tradition does not need to be completely illiminated but just changed a little. Or maybe it means that the idea is lold and falling apart so it needs to go away forever. The fact that the box never gets replaced, people do not want to change anything because they are afraid of change so they keep everything the same even if its bad.
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I agree with you that in the lottery the box was one of the main symbols in the story. Not just the color of the box was a negative thing, but also the way the people in the town where using it as. That is why i also agree that the box was also a way of representing tradition. I say this because the people did not want to change the way they live their life.
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