Sunday, September 18, 2011
The lottery Symbol
I thunk that one of the Lottery's main symbol's was the black box. It represented people's out dated ideas and how no matter what they followed the tradition. They didn't even know why they were even doing a lottery and why they were throwing rocks. The box was black, it was chipped on one side, and the guy in charge always wanted to replace it but the towns people never let him. Black usually means bad, the fact that the box was chipped at the side means that the box needed to be replaced or renewed, and the people did not want to change the box made them very stubborn. The big picture of the story is to question things. Why does there need to be a lottery? The box represents an idea or tradition, the color means that its a bad idea or tradition, the chipped side represents the need to change the idea or tradition, the fact that people didn't want to replace it means that the people were scared of change.
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I agree people dont want to change. I think it might be a little of ignorance because they do not believe other places are banning the lottery. Maybe they think it is the right thing to do.
ReplyDeleteYou misspelled think :D lol well yea the black box represents old tradition and that they should change it.
ReplyDeleteHaha "thunk" XD
ReplyDeleteBut yeah you're Right about people when it comes to the idea of change, they just like to think that everything is okay. Its like they prefer to be puppets with the hand of tradition shoved up their butt, calling all the shots. Its dissapointing.
If your to change you'll never know if change was a good thing. That old guy is too stuck in the past but when he dies the tradition will die with with. Then new ideas and traditions can come in.
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