In the short story "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson's message is that traditions are always good but sometimes there need to be change once in a while. This whole story is basically about tradition that a small town follows. They have a lottery at the end of the summer to see which family would get the lucky slip of paper. Also in the story Old man Waner been around for years and he is tired of the same tradition. So Jackson is saying that even though traditions been around for a long time or maybe decades. Getting rid of traditions can be a good thing or a bad thing and the tradition in The Lottery is one that can be taking away forever.
The tone in the lotterty is frustared because many families can't wait to turn their little paper over to see if they had that little dot and when it wasn't them they were very sad. This tone word affect the reading by letting the readers know how frustaring it is to go through this whole process in order to figure who got this one little thing slip of paper.
i dont think the town was frustrated i think they were more so curious, and anxious to figure out who had the slip. i do agree with how changing tradition would be a good thing
ReplyDeleteYou are right not all traditions are a good thing and its not bad to get rid of them or maybe get new traditions.
ReplyDeleteNot everyone approves of things and people do try and change things. But being on your own may cause a problem and people will not like it. But in order for that to happen we need to Try new things for others to see.
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