Saturday, September 17, 2011
Yay I'm second!!!
In the short story "The Lottery" the symbolism in this story would be the black box. This little box can represent many things. This symbol can represent death because the box is black and it is slowly falling apart. This is happening in the book when it is sitting on the stool. Since the box is old and falling aprt this means that this box been around for a decade or two. Also this gets at the fact that this small town do not like to change anything thats why things are falling apart. There is many other things in the story that symbolism other things but it all refer to traditions.
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I agree with all of this except for where it says " this small town do not like to change anything that why things are falling apart." The town does not like change but only the things they use for their traditions are falling apart. The town itself is not falling apart because they are in such persuasion of continuing the tradition of the box and stoning people.
ReplyDeleteI agree with sara the town doesn't want to change but they do change what they use. They never question why they throw rocks or anything. Thet're afraid of change
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